UPDATES

2026 Updates

The Balaur editor

Gamend got Gamend Cloud hosting, quests and payments. Balaur went from first commit to 0.1.0, with its own scripting language, Balaur Script. Polyglot Pirates grew to 54 languages, nine word games and flashcards. Godot Rapier moved to Rapier 0.35, with new joints and benchmarks. Each project has its own longer post.

Gamend

Gamend is our open source Elixir game server, now at version 1.1. Full 2026 post.

  • Gamend Cloud: hosted servers in early access, with the first server free for 30 days
  • Quests: dailies, weeklies, chains, secret quests and events
  • Economy: wallets, a ledger, an inventory and store payments
  • Matchmaking, tournaments and ready checks
  • Push notifications and email digests
  • LibGodot: GDScript server logic running inside the server

Choosing a size for a new Gamend Cloud server

The bar, the sidebar and the tab bar

Balaur

Balaur is the deterministic 2D and 3D game engine we are building in Rust, with Rapier for physics. Full 2026 post.

  • 0.1.0 tagged in September, pre-alpha
  • Balaur Script: typed, Rust’s syntax, compiled to WebAssembly, about 1.5× the time of Rust on wasmtime
  • Rendering: Sponza, 2D global illumination, particles
  • Physics: soft bodies, playback and rollback
  • Editor: on a desktop, a tablet, a phone and in the browser

The Sponza atrium in Balaur

Balaur Script against Rust, LuaJIT, Luau, Lua and Rune

Cloth and tearing on Rapier

Polyglot Pirates

Polyglot Pirates is our language learning site, built on Gamend. Full 2026 post.

  • 54 languages, 20 of them added in July
  • A bigger vocabulary: from 3,827 to 8,646 words per language, from A1 to C2
  • Nine word games with hints, a daily streak and a Multiplayer race
  • Flashcards, and tests you take online or print
  • Sailing from the website: right answers move your ship

Odd One Out in Romanian

A flashcard with its plural, meaning and example sentence

Godot Rapier

Godot Rapier Physics moved to Rapier 0.35, with parallel SIMD and cross platform determinism always on. It also gained rope and fixed joints, and we benchmarked it against Box2D, Jolt, Box3D and Godot Physics. Full 2026 post.

The 3D pyramid benchmark

And more

  • Godot Whisper: the dock moved to its own window, with more logging when audio is missing or silent
  • Godot builder and deploy GitHub Actions: updated for Godot 4.7, with new deploy actions

Thanks for following along. Join us on Discord if you want to try any of this or help out.