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Team Up And Battle For The Win In ‘Preston’s Diamond Wars’, Out Today!

Hoard gold and rubies, destroy enemy vaults, and fight for the win in Preston’s Diamond Wars, the new team-based arena battler out now on dot big bang!

Four teams of two battle it out in a race for resources, upgrades, and ultimate victory. Build bridges over a series of islands to collect gold and rubies, power up your armor and weapons, and build defenses to repel attacks. Become the strongest duo, and take down the other teams one by one!

Skins Are Now Available In The dot big bang Store, Launching in the US Today!

Skins have arrived in dot big bang with the launch of the dot big bang Skin Store! The dot big bang Avatar Editor now includes a store where you can buy fun skins for your character. The first set has five fierce skins to check out – the Mech, Astronaut, Dark Knight, Light Knight, and T-rex.

Any skin you buy will appear on your avatar instantly in different games all across dot big bang. Whether you’re building with friends, exploring Hub World, farming in Pocket Garden, or blowing up vaults in Diamond Wars, you can wear your new skin!

Changelog: dot big bang v0.9.6

dot big bang version 0.9.6 is out now! This update brings some valuable fixes and improvements to the engine, and the Voxel, Game and Script Editors. Read on find out what’s new.

Join The dot big bang Combat Game Jam, Starting Today!

Welcome to the dot big bang Combat Jam, a super-fun two week game jam that starts today!

Between May 8th-22nd, you’re invited to create your very own combat game. Using this readymade Combat Example game as a starting point, this is your chance to go wild and create a combat game all of your own. All games have a chance to be featured on the dotbigbang.com homepage, and we’ll play our favourites live on stream after the jam!

dot big bang v0.9.5: New Voxel Editor UI, Combat Game Template

dot big bang v0.9.5 is here! This update brings a substantial UI rework to the Voxel Object Editor. The changes include a selection of starter objects, Basic and Advanced modes, new shortcuts and hotkeys, and lots more—see the full list below.

Another exciting arrival for creators is the Combat Example Game—a fully remixable dungeon crawler, featuring ranged and melee weapons, a health system and inventory, enemies with pathfinding, loot drops, customisable emotes, and more! You can remix this game to make your version, and replace, change, and adapt all of its unique elements. We can’t wait to see what you make!

Read on for a full list of the changes.

Get Ready For The First Co-Creation Chaos Stream, Happening This Friday!

Calling all dot big creators, voxel experimentalists and agents of chaos: we have a super fun Co-creation Stream for you on Twitch this Friday.

You might have seen dot big bang’s template jeep: a drivable vehicle that you can spawn into any game you like. Well, what if you could take that jeep, and turn it into a custom dream machine all of your own?

Welcome To Pocket Garden, A Brand New Farming Game On dot big bang!

We’re excited to announce the release of ‘Pocket Garden’, a brand new cozy farming game, playable now at dotbigbang.com! Play it now right here.

Set in the idyllic seaside town of Garden Grove, Pocket Garden is a relaxing farming game in which you grow crops, and trade them for seeds, furniture, new tools, and lots more. You can customise, upgrade, and decorate your farm, and get egg-laying chickens, mushroom-finding pigs, and cute sheep to munch on the weeds.

Best of all, you can invite friends to your session, and play together while you build the perfect farm!

Behind The Scenes: The Making Of Pocket Garden

Pocket Garden is the new cozy faming game on dot big bang. It has a lot of interesting systems, from the UI, to the economy, upgrades system, and multiplayer aspects such as watering friends’ crops while they’re away. To find out more about the game’s development, we caught up with Ashley Koett, the dot big bang Community Engineer who designed the game.

Changelog: dot big bang v0.9.2 – A Substantial Game Editor QoL Update

We’re happy to announce the release of dot big bang v0.9.2! This substantial update includes some new Game & Voxel Editor functionality that’s been making our Community Engineer team very happy.

Highlights include some new Game Editor features, such as copying properties – particle systems, for example – from one component to another. You can also now search an entity’s components, allowing you to quickly locate specific scripts on an entity. Voxel artists will be happy to see a new color picker in the Voxel Editor that includes saved colors, complementary color suggestions, and the ability to import the palette from a voxel object.

dot big bang v0.9.1 Is Now Live!

dot big bang v0.9.1 is now live! This version includes a vast swathe of updates spanning dot big bang’s editor, engine, tools, docs, and games.

If you’re interested in staying up to date, check out the Changelog channel on our Discord, where regular updates are published. Read on for a detailed breakdown of what’s in v0.9.1.