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Crown 0.63

Crown 0.63

This release adds a new LOD Group component that lets you optimize performance by dynamically choosing which mesh a…

June 03, 2026

Crown 0.62

Crown 0.62

This release makes day-to-day work in the editor smoother, improves runtime behavior in larger scenes, and expands…

April 09, 2026

Crown 0.61

Crown 0.61

This release upgrades the Linux rendering backend of Crown to a full Vulkan solution. That gives us a clean path for…

February 23, 2026

The Crown Foundation

We develop Crown Engine, publish ready-to-use releases, and maintain free resources that help people build awesome games.

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Batteries Included

Complete Editor with importers, level editor, deployers, Lua REPL, and much more.

Editing a moonlit boat scene in Crown
Previewing an animation in the Crown Editor

Fast iteration times

Everything is hot-reloadable in less than a second, gameplay code included.

Multi-platform

Dev on your favorite desktop platform and ship to Android, HTML5, Linux or Windows.

A Crown project running in the editor with development statistics
A dense Crown scene used to demonstrate renderer performance

Performance-first

Runtime data is carefully arranged to reach maximum gameplay performance all the time.

Simple and hackable

Projects are just text files that are compiled into optimized binaries before shipping.

Text-based render settings in a Crown project

Plug-and-play

No account, no internet required. Get a copy, unzip it and start building games.

Polyglot

Editors are available in four languages, with additional ones on the roadmap.

Crown Editor menus in French, English, Italian and German

Free and Open Source

Crown is a public, collaborative project, owned by its contributors and free forever.

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