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The Next Phase of Beta 3

Now that Guild Warfare v1 is up and running and Dino is knee deep in Infested Undercity, it's time to decide what Gamer works on next!

Most options are being pulled from the Beta 3 Roadmap:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/beta-phase-3-147124695

One thing I would like to do that isn't listed in the roadmap is to create an entirely new graphics engine that would replace BabylonJS. This would lead to higher fps, lower power use, smoother camera movement, no fps throttling on mobile, lots of new neat graphical effects, and much more. I would be essentially making a pixel art 2D/2.5D/3D engine using WebGL 2 and Typescript. I could even open source it once it's mature enough! The New Graphics Engine work would be split into several phases with Phase 1 being rendering pixel perfect pixel art sprites, dealing with WebGL context and state management, etc.

Edit: If New Graphics Engine wins the poll I will also be doing a series of devlogs about the journey. The devlogs would include demos to show progress.