Welcome to the biggest release in Velaptor's history! 🎉

This release marks the completion of the largest technical undertaking I have ever done: the migration of the entire rendering backend from OpenGL to WebGPU. The rendering stack has been rebuilt from the ground up with modern WGSL shaders, render pipelines, and buffer management—and the old OpenGL machinery is completely gone.

This release consisted of the following:

1. ~4 months of work with a single developer (me).
2. 440 files changed.
3. 25,940 lines of code added.
4. 26,139 lines of code deleted.

Needless to say, it has been a huge undertaking that I have been thinking about for at least 3 or so years.

Because of the scope of this change, this release ships with several breaking changes. If you have an existing Velaptor project, please read the breaking changes section carefully before upgrading.

It's a long one!

If you've wanted a simple way to support the project financially, Ko-fi is now available alongside GitHub Sponsors and Open Collective. Velaptor and the rest of the KinsonDigital projects are free and open source, and I want to keep them that way.

Welcome to another exciting update for Velaptor! 🎉

I'm thrilled to roll out this next preview release. We've been working hard on some internal plumbing that will tremendously help us understand how Velaptor is being used out in the wild, while also squashing some elusive bugs, beefing up thread safety on our OpenGL resources, and making file paths much friendlier across different platforms. This release is all about returning better insights to help us build a better framework—and making it more robust along the way.

A big thanks to the following contributors for their work on this release! 🎉

• @CalvinWilkinson
• @kselena

Quick release today! 🎉

VelaptorTemplates v1.0.1 is out, and it brings the templates up to date with the latest version of Velaptor.

What Changed?​

This is a maintenance release. The templates have been updated to target Velaptor v1.0.0-preview.44 — the latest and greatest version of the engine.

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm super excited to announce the first preview release of VelaptorAseprite — v1.0.0-preview.1! Velaptor (and everything related to it) has been a passion project of mine, and I'm thrilled to finally get Aseprite integration into your hands.

If you've ever wanted to take your pixel art straight from Aseprite and drop it into a Velaptor game with minimal friction, this is the library for you. 🚀

Welcome to another release of Velaptor! 🎉

It's been a while since our last release blog post, and we're thrilled to share some game-changing updates that will make your development experience smoother and more efficient.

Intro​

This release is all about revamping content management—the backbone of any game. While the previous system worked, it had performance and scalability limitations that we knew needed addressing. We've completely reimagined how content loading works to give you a faster, cleaner, and more intuitive experience.

Ready to dive in? Let's explore what's new!

Another release!! 🎉

This time, it is a minor release but necessary, as all releases are.

Intro​

This release includes updates to various dependencies, a bug fix, and more. Other changes that do not directly affect the user include code refactorings and more mocking code migrations from Moq to NSubstitute.

Let's dive in!

Hello again!! This release is a good one. 😉

Quick Overview​

This release contains changes like a bug fix related to flipping images vertically and horizontally, dependency updates, refactorings, code cleanup, and most importantly, the new stream audio playback feature inherited from CASL.

The Velaptor release v1.0.0-preview.35 also contains breaking changes related to the public API. These breaking changes are necessary and help solidify the public API before the version v1.0.0 final release.

This release is a good one. 🤘🏻

Let's get into the details!!

Hello and welcome to another Velaptor release!!

This release brings you some small performance improvements, the start of your mocking library migration, some API deprecations, and some bug fixes.

A quick thanks to the following contributors for their contributions to this release:

• @AndreBonda

New Velaptor Release​

Welcome to the new exciting and latest update on our 2D game development framework Velaptor! We're thrilled to announce that our newest release is now live which consists of some bug fixes, technical debt cleanup, updates to the CICD system, deprecation of the UI controls API, and some other developer experience items.

But the most exciting part of this release is the performance improvements due to updating to dotnet 8 as well as vastly improving the performance of the keyboard input system.

We invite you to check out the Velaptor Release Notes to inform yourself of the changes.

A quick thanks to the following contributors for their contributions to this release:

• @AndreBonda
• @map-b

We appreciate your help and support in making Velaptor better!