Castle Game Engine: Android builds now include libpng (over 10x speedup at PNG loading), new platformer release

Enjoy much faster PNG loading on Android now, as the libpng library is automatically packaged with your applications. Various measurements, like this one, or testing “The Unholy Society” UI loading time confirm that the speedup is huge, even more than 10x compared to previous FpImage that we used on Android. In general, there’s no need …

Castle Game Engine: FMOD sound backend improvements: spatial sounds, priority, distance model, offset

Our FMOD sound backend, that integrates CGE with the FMOD sound system, supports now 3D (spatial) sounds. This means that sound position in 3D is reflected in your ears — things that are closer are louder, things that are on your right are mostly in your right speakers etc. The improvements outlined here make our …