We have made a few significant refactors of our low-level OpenGL(ES) code, to support better both modern GPUs, ancient GPUs and mobile GPUs. Everybody wins! 🙂 Modern GPUs We have now much better support of new OpenGL features. If we have shaders, we know we have shaders from “core”, and we initialize them with the …

A big personal news from me is that I switched from using Emacs for almost-everything-I-do-on-computer to VS Code about a month ago. There have been a few reasons (yes, including this). I was exploring VS Code already, finally decided to see what happens if I try to use it for everything and now I’m happy …

More improvements come to the stable version of Godot 4 with the 4.0.3 patch release. Here’s the first release candidate to test the changes before they go live.

Going forward, CGE doesn’t depend on Vampyre packages LPK. We of course still (proudly!) use Vampyre Imaging Library for most of our image loading/saving needs, we just refer to these units a bit differently. There’s nothing for you to do. You can uninstall VampyreImagingPackage.lpk and VampyreImagingPackageExt.lpk from Lazarus IDE if you had them only for …

Here be dragons! First development snapshot for the upcoming Godot Engine 4.1 is available to early adopters and adventurous types.

We’re proud to present DSDrive, a simple racing game developed by DidiSoft entirely with Castle Game Engine and Lazarus (and Blender and LazPaint). It is a car race game against 10 opponents and/or time on three different racetracks. In the box you can change the tires, refuel, adjust the brakes and adjust the wing angle. …

We outline our plan for future Godot releases and Godot 4.1 specifically, which you can expect at the end of June, after three months of feature merging and one month of bug fixing.

For 4.1 the rendering team will be focusing on performance, stability, and usability.