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dbb x GGJ: How dot big bang sponsored the 2022 Global Game Jam

It’s been an interesting couple of weeks here at dot big bang. As dbb’s dev team worked away on their core tasks of making games, helping creators, and developing new tools, it turned out that we’d suddenly and spontaneously sponsored the biggest game jam in the world.

Introducing: Battle Heroes, A Chaotic New Multiplayer FPS

Battles Heroes is a brand new chaotic multiplayer FPS on dot big bang. Hop onto a public session, or use the share button to invite friends – then smack ’em with rockets!

Meet Ashley Koett, Community Engineer

You might recognise dbb Community Engineer Ashley Koett from her weekly streams over on the dot big bang Twitch channel. We caught up with her to find out about her processes, interests, and inspirations.

Winter Hub Is Here!

The first snow has fallen in Hub World, bringing with it a brand new Winter update that includes new quests, characters, pets, secrets, and more!

An Introduction To Scripting In dot big bang

The first version of User Scripting with Typescript went live this week on dot big bang, opening up a lot of new possibilities for creators. We caught up with Lead Community Engineer Charles Palmer, aka meheleventyone, to talk about what this means for the platform, and what the future holds.

Introducing: Template Toys

Building games in dot big bang just got easier with the arrival of Template Toys!

This set of super-useful premade objects is now available to drag ‘n’ drop into any dot big bang game. The Template Toys include trampolines, launch ramps, checkpoints to respawn players mid level, a jukebox, a flower gun, and lots more. Creators can easily adjust values such as launch and bounce distance to send players to new heights in their dot big bang creations!