Engine v5.0.12

June 12, 2026

A patch to For Real.

Sounds in 2D games are actually audible now! Dig thunks, impacts, and pickups were playing at a tiny fraction of their volume because the game listened from the camera instead of your character.
Scripts can now know when a sound finishes and how long clips really are — timed dialogue and voice-over sequencing stop guessing with timers (no more overlapping lines, dead air, or drift).
Looping sounds and music now wrap smoothly — no more click, gap, or hiss at the seam every time a generated loop repeats.
Sounds no longer burst all at once after a slow load — anything timed that "played" while the loading screen was still up is skipped instead of piling up, and your music/ambient loops start cleanly the moment the world appears.
Fixed a rare server bug where a player could fall through one spot of the terrain forever — the engine now detects when its self-repair isn't working and rebuilds the whole area's ground instead of retrying the same broken fix all night.
Game servers now recover from rare internal freezes in about a minute on their own — previously a frozen world could stay stuck (changes not applying, joins hanging) until we shipped an update.
Small characters stand still now! Tiny avatars and creatures (gnome-sized and down) had vibrating, jittery legs from the automatic foot grounding — their feet now plant just as solidly as full-size characters.
Statues and frozen poses no longer twitch or slowly twist their feet — characters without playing animations hold exactly the pose you gave them, and turning foot grounding off returns them to their authored pose.
Big sprites, animations, and textures that are generated mid-game show up way faster and more reliably — one generation pass instead of repeated stalled attempts.
The cursor does what your game says, immediately: pointer-lock changes from Savi or scripts apply live, hideCursor()/showCursor() work in every camera mode, closing a dialog still snaps you straight back into mouse-look, and converting a 3D world to 2D frees the cursor on its own.
Multiplayer smoothness: fixed a bug where tumbling or settled physics objects could trigger constant invisible corrections, quietly burning performance. Ragdolls and debris now cost what they should.
Multiplayer resilience: a client that fell badly out of sync could spiral — correcting nonstop until the game ran out of memory. Corrections now pace themselves under load (a brief moment of catch-up instead of a freeze), and the common case got cheaper across the board.
Savi and creator scripts now get an immediate, precise error when a particles/material/physics value has the wrong shape (e.g. sizeOverLife: [1, 0.4] instead of [[0, 1], [1, 0.4]]) — at the moment of the write, naming the exact field, instead of the value silently landing and breaking rendering later.
Particle emitters support shape: { kind: "disc", radius, jitter?, lift? } — particles spawn across a horizontal disc (ground fog, ritual circles, splash rings) instead of a single point.
Savi can now draw animated sprites in code, frame by frame — walk cycles, attack swings, and idle bobs bake instantly into a sprite sheet that plays through the normal animation controls. No waiting on image generation to see your characters move.
Tilemap worlds no longer need a size! Skip width/height and your tile generator paints forever in every direction — walk a thousand tiles out to sea and the ocean keeps coming, just like infinite terrain in 3D. Existing maps with a set size work exactly like before.
Vignettes can now fade themselves out — ask Savi for a damage flash that pulses the screen edges red and melts away on its own, no cleanup timers needed.

Engine v5.0.12

June 12, 2026

A patch to For Real.

Sounds in 2D games are actually audible now! Dig thunks, impacts, and pickups were playing at a tiny fraction of their volume because the game listened from the camera instead of your character.
Scripts can now know when a sound finishes and how long clips really are — timed dialogue and voice-over sequencing stop guessing with timers (no more overlapping lines, dead air, or drift).
Looping sounds and music now wrap smoothly — no more click, gap, or hiss at the seam every time a generated loop repeats.
Sounds no longer burst all at once after a slow load — anything timed that "played" while the loading screen was still up is skipped instead of piling up, and your music/ambient loops start cleanly the moment the world appears.
Fixed a rare server bug where a player could fall through one spot of the terrain forever — the engine now detects when its self-repair isn't working and rebuilds the whole area's ground instead of retrying the same broken fix all night.
Game servers now recover from rare internal freezes in about a minute on their own — previously a frozen world could stay stuck (changes not applying, joins hanging) until we shipped an update.
Small characters stand still now! Tiny avatars and creatures (gnome-sized and down) had vibrating, jittery legs from the automatic foot grounding — their feet now plant just as solidly as full-size characters.
Statues and frozen poses no longer twitch or slowly twist their feet — characters without playing animations hold exactly the pose you gave them, and turning foot grounding off returns them to their authored pose.
Big sprites, animations, and textures that are generated mid-game show up way faster and more reliably — one generation pass instead of repeated stalled attempts.
The cursor does what your game says, immediately: pointer-lock changes from Savi or scripts apply live, hideCursor()/showCursor() work in every camera mode, closing a dialog still snaps you straight back into mouse-look, and converting a 3D world to 2D frees the cursor on its own.
Multiplayer smoothness: fixed a bug where tumbling or settled physics objects could trigger constant invisible corrections, quietly burning performance. Ragdolls and debris now cost what they should.
Multiplayer resilience: a client that fell badly out of sync could spiral — correcting nonstop until the game ran out of memory. Corrections now pace themselves under load (a brief moment of catch-up instead of a freeze), and the common case got cheaper across the board.
Savi and creator scripts now get an immediate, precise error when a particles/material/physics value has the wrong shape (e.g. sizeOverLife: [1, 0.4] instead of [[0, 1], [1, 0.4]]) — at the moment of the write, naming the exact field, instead of the value silently landing and breaking rendering later.
Particle emitters support shape: { kind: "disc", radius, jitter?, lift? } — particles spawn across a horizontal disc (ground fog, ritual circles, splash rings) instead of a single point.
Savi can now draw animated sprites in code, frame by frame — walk cycles, attack swings, and idle bobs bake instantly into a sprite sheet that plays through the normal animation controls. No waiting on image generation to see your characters move.
Tilemap worlds no longer need a size! Skip width/height and your tile generator paints forever in every direction — walk a thousand tiles out to sea and the ocean keeps coming, just like infinite terrain in 3D. Existing maps with a set size work exactly like before.
Vignettes can now fade themselves out — ask Savi for a damage flash that pulses the screen edges red and melts away on its own, no cleanup timers needed.