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July 26, 2010

Version 1.0 of The Render Engine has been released! This is the first major release of the engine, with development soon to start on the next release. Get your copy of The Render Engine today by clicking one of the links in the "Download" section below. Or, you can visit the code repository site to get your hands on the source code directly from the Subversion repository.

The Render Engine is a full featured game engine written entirely in JavaScript. It is easily consumable and ready for you to start writing your game today! The Render Engine is completely free and open-source so you can do whatever you want with the code. Below is a high-level view of the features of The Render Engine:

• Object oriented, completely open-source engine
• Well documented API
• Script loading with Dependency processor and linker
• Object pooling to reduce garbage collection
• Multiple browser support
• 2D Vector-based example game
• 2D Sprite-based example with Nintendo Wii support
• Multiple rendering contexts
• Modular host objects for developing in-game objects
• Multiple components to simplify in-game object creation
• 2D Sprite support
• Sound support (requires Flash 8+)
• Multiple resource loaders
• Build and deployment scripts
• Works across multiple platforms, including Windows, Mac, and many mobile devices
• Built upon well-known libraries