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Cairn2026.11.07
SDL3 everywhere, and a second graphics device
- Web games use SDL3 for keyboard, mouse and gamepads
- --gpu sdl-metal: a preview device that draws through Metal
- Box3D games play in a browser
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Releases
Every update to our games and to Cairn, newest first. What changed, what got fixed, what is still broken.
November 2026
October 2026
Cairn2026.10.28
Scenes inside scenes
- Place a scene inside another, and change every copy at once
- A Game UI switch to see the level behind a HUD
- History that says what changed on which entity
- Game.Quit() ends a game from a script
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Cairn2026.10.27
Cairn as an app
- Cairn.app: editor, runtime, CLI, templates and samples in one app
- Cairn-CLI --help lists every command
- Web games start on their own, with one progress bar
- Every docs page is also plain Markdown
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Cairn2026.10.26
Games in the browser, and a faster renderer
- Web export: WebAssembly and WebGL2, with a zip itch.io takes as it is
- Frustum culling, LOD and instanced drawing
- Images and models load on worker threads
- Box3D as a second physics library beside Jolt
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Cairn2026.10.25
The engine is called Cairn
- Renamed from Safi Studio to Cairn, with old projects brought over
- A redesigned editor: new theme, fonts and icons
- Play the open scene in its own window or full screen
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Cairn2026.10.24
TypeScript scripting
- Write a project's scripts in Lua or TypeScript
- Errors point at the .ts line, not the Lua it became
- Completion from definitions written from the same bindings as the Lua reference
- Zombie Survival, a new twin-stick shooter sample
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Cairn2026.10.17
Feature Tour
- Six levels joined by portals
- A benchmark that walks every level on its own
- About 10,000 particles and 48 animated puppets
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Cairn2026.10.16
Performance stats
- A Performance window in the editor, opened with F3
- GPU time for every render pass
- Write every sample to a CSV file to compare two runs
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Cairn2026.10.09
A fuller editor, and a tutorial
- A history panel: click any step to go back to it
- A material editor and a project settings window
- require, events between scripts and debug lines in Lua
- A tutorial that builds a small game from scratch
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Cairn2026.10.08
Shorter scripts, and switching things off
- Switch an entity off, and everything under it goes with it
- Components are fields of their entity: entity.Rigidbody
- Completion and hover text in code editors
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Cairn2026.10.07
Every milestone lands
- PBR lighting, cascaded shadows, ambient occlusion and bloom
- Lua scripting with hot reload and a generated API reference
- Physics on Jolt, with a character controller
- Export a game with no editor inside it
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Cairn2026.10.06
The first day
- A Vulkan renderer with HDR and ACES tonemapping
- Scenes saved as YAML you can read and diff
- glTF models with their materials and textures
- An editor with a hierarchy, an inspector, gizmos and undo
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