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Welcome back to another development update for the nCine, covering what has been accomplished in the last quarter of 2025 and the first half of 2026.

Most graphics programmers know about the concept of a warp (or a wave in AMD parlance).

After eight years of serving me well, I decided to retire my old Jekyll-based site, which used the Beautiful Jekyll theme, a popular Jekyll template created by Dean Attali.

Compilation speed directly affects iteration time when developing an engine.

Welcome back to another development update for the nCine, covering what has been accomplished in the first part of this year.

In this article, we’ll go over the progress of the nCine throughout 2024.

Lately, the development rate of the nCine slowed down a bit.

I just got a new laptop, an Asus ROG Zephyrus G15 GA503RM (2022), and of course, I’m timing the nCine compilation to see how much time it will make me save. 😉 Should you be interested in the first compilation benchmark article, it is available here.

Yet another update coming after a very long time since the previous, apologies for that.

After a very long time without an update, here comes a new one.

Quite some time has passed since the previous development update but I’m here again to talk about the latest nCine progress.

A bit more than ten years have passed since that first commit.

If you follow the project on GitHub you might have noticed a big development slowdown during the summer.

I have spent nearly two months on a big task this spring: custom memory allocators.

Today I upgraded my Arch Linux workstation with pacman as I usually do every day and a little surprise was waiting for me.

Welcome to another nCine development update!

A lot of work has been put into the project as usual during those last months of the year.

The last two months of work on the nCine were mostly dedicated to the quality of life improvements for users.

Exciting news for this development update: a new supported platform!

I’m sure many of you have heard it already: the nCine source code has been released on GitHub!

It has been a month and a half of small but useful updates for the nCine.

I have spent some very intense weeks this March to completely overhaul and refactor my CMake scripts.

Just a few weeks after the last update here I’m again to write the next one in which I’m going to show you the performance of my new hash table implementation.

After all the work carried out during the last months and culminated in the previous update, I took some time to experiment with some different things.

During those months two very important features appeared in the nCine.

Plenty of work has been done during these few last months as I decided once again to update the engine renderer.

Are you curious about the time I spend to compile the nCine?

A lot of work has been carried out during the last three and a half months.

During those three months I have been working on two big features.

During June and July 2017 I have been working as usual, in my spare time, on the project. 😉 The first big June addition has been the automatic screen culling of sprites, a very important feature needed in order to support games extending on multiple scree…

I am writing this to present my latest and biggest project to date, the nCine.