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Best Friends Forever: Add friends and play together on dot big bang!

Today we’re launching some new things that make it easier for you to play together.

✅ Friends List: Search and add friends to your friends list.

👀 See which friends are online when you come to dot big bang.

🤝 Join Friends: Easily join your friends in the game they’re playing.

💌 Invite Friends: Making a new game? Playing something awesome? Easily invite your friends to play with you with one click.

All of these things can be found in the new user menu under the “social” tab. Open your social tab!

As part of this work, we’ve also moved some things around to make them easier to find. A lot of things are now in a new user menu that you get to by clicking your profile icon. The green number shows how many friends are currently online, and if you have unread notifications, you’ll see a red dot too.

Your notifications are now in the notifications tab of the user menu. Open your notifications!

Games and objects you’ve made are now under the “my stuff” tab, along with a button to create a new game or object. Open your “my stuff” tab!

Your liked games and objects are now in the likes tab in the user menu. Open your likes!

Customizing your avatar and editing your handle, name and description are now under the “profile” tab in the new user menu. Open your profile tab!

We hope you like these new features and have fun playing with your friends!

🏡🐝🍯Honeyvale RP🏡🐝🍯

Hey! Today we’re announcing a new game we’re working on! Honeyvale RP is a social roleplaying game, set in the beautiful town of Honeyvale 🏡🐝🍯.

Get A Free Skin In The Robot Art Jam!

It is time for another art jam! This time around, your challenge will be to customize a robot 🤖. Give it a fun new paint job, animate it, or even give it all new parts. How far you take it is completely up to you. Everyone who customizes the robot object & enters it in the jam will be rewarded with a free skin to wear across all the games on dot big bang!

The deadline for submissions is May 5th. Skins will be sent out to all participants shortly after the art jam ends (give us a few days to hand them all out). After that, we’ll do a wrap-up stream to check out all the amazing robot entries!

How To Enter

1. Make Your Robot

Hit the Remix button (the cloud with an arrow, at the top left of the screen) on this base object. This creates your personal copy that you can paint, decorate, or animate – the decision is yours!

2. Make a Thumbnail

When your robot is ready, open the save panel at the top right. Click New Thumbnail to take a picture of your robot. Tip: move the camera for a better angle, and change the background using the color picker!

3. Name Your Robot & Save

Finally, name your robot (include “Robot”). Check “Published”, and click Save. That’s it, you’re all done!

You can show us your work by posting a link in the #events channel on our Discord – and see the awesome robots other people are making while you’re there! Discord is also the place to ask questions about the Voxel Object Editor, or anything else that comes up. The development team is there, and will be happy to help.

Finally – we’ll host a wrap-up stream on YouTube when the jam is over to check out all the awesome things people made. Sub to our channel and turn on notifications to know when we go live.

Good luck and have fun creating!

Getting Ortho: dot big bang v0.9.11 has launched!

This latest version of dot big bang is a featured packed platform and editor update!

We’ve added a much better Global Search to the top bar of the website to provide a one-stop place to find games to play, objects to admire, and even other gamers! We’ve also added an Announcement feature to the top bar, so check out the notifications for new and exciting things from the world of dot big bang. Hopefully you even got here through that system!

The Voxel Object Editor now has an orthographic camera to help with 3D object modelling, and the Game Editor has received a plethora of helpful updates and additions. Find out more in the full changelog below!

Deep Dive: What You Can Do With dot big bang 0.9.9

The recent release of dot big bang v0.9.9 added a mountain of new features to make developers’ lives easier. This post will run through some of the most significant and useful changes, and offer some information and tips on putting the new features to work. So let’s jump right in!

How To Start Making Games In dot big bang!

Never made a game before but want to give it a go? Then you’ve arrived at the right place. dot big bang has every tool you need to make a game right here in your browser. You can get started on a new game project in seconds. In this post we’ll go through everything you need to know to start making games on dot big bang. No prior knowledge needed!