April 1-June 30, 2026
Saves & Settings
Give games a built-in way to store progress, profiles, and player options.
What it unlocks: Reliable saves, graphics settings, and user preferences without custom engine plumbing.
Crown 2026 Roadmap
A timeline of the next major milestones on the road to Crown 1.0.
Q2
Q3
July 1-September 30, 2026
Asset Workflow
Make it easy to rename and move assets in the editor, inspect dependencies, and reorganize projects efficiently.
What it unlocks: Teams can clean up and scale projects without breaking references or doing the work by hand.
Q4
October 1-December 31, 2026
Visual Effects
Add a particle system and expand the rendering stack with missing effects like SSAO, color grading, and other post effects.
What it unlocks: Richer visuals, more atmosphere, and a more complete built-in effects toolset.
Crown 1.0
January 1-March 31, 2027
Advanced Animation
Round out the animation stack with blending, layering, and masking.
What it unlocks: Smoother transitions, more natural motion, and the ability to combine movement and actions cleanly, marking the final step toward Crown 1.0.
Road to 1.0
Crown 1.0 aims to make the engine production-ready for smaller-scope commercial games.
Why these four, why now
These milestones focus on the core systems needed to build real projects in Crown: gameplay state, content workflow, visual polish, and animation.
What Crown 1.0 means
Crown 1.0 is aimed at being ready for production on a smaller-scope commercial game, especially single-player and local multiplayer projects.
Not planned before 1.0
Crown 1.0 stays focused on features that directly support building and shipping games. Features outside that scope may be postponed until after 1.0.
Acceptance criteria
A milestone is complete when it is implemented, documented, and usable in a real project.
Recent Progress
Crown has accelerated sharply over the last year, with a higher release pace, broader engine capabilities, and continued momentum into 2026.
2025 was the most productive year in Crown's history.
Crown shipped 14 releases in 2025, from Crown 0.54 in January to Crown 0.60 in December. Major additions included a new PBR pipeline, support for FBX scenes, local and cascaded shadows, OGG streaming, a dedicated kinematic character controller, improved prefab workflows, and many new resource editors.
Commit Velocity
In the 12 months ending February 2026, the project recorded 1,047 commits, up 83% year over year.
2026 Momentum
Crown 0.61 modernized Linux rendering with Vulkan and expanded the manual. Crown 0.62 improved everyday editor workflows, input support, and performance in large scenes. Crown 0.63 kept that pace by shipping the first roadmap item ahead of time, adding LOD groups and physics joints, broadening hot-reloading, and closing 30 issues.
