State of KAPLAY #5

lajbel, FRIDAY 13th (☠️) of June, 2025, from KAPLAY HQ

Hey! Now, it’s the time to talk about KAPLAY, the things we did, the things we’re going to do and all stuff related to the KAWorld (or even, KA-Universe). Again, I’ve sub estimated how much stuff I have to document on this process, so this blog is charged with a lot of content, please, enjoy your reading.

✨ Balance of World…

Team Update

Our Team is composed of wonderful persons, you probably knew two:

• MF represents the Wisdom for take the right decision inside the repository.
• lajbel represents the Power of breaking production and create new awesome products.

But something was missing, the Courage of create something new, wonderful, something different…

wait for it

Misanthrope! Also known as Imaginarny, but now also known as THE HERO, has joined to the KAPLAY Team, as the 3rd member of the team, he’s here as the Courage!

Now, the KAPLAY Triforce is complete!

As one of the KAPLAY founders, I’m so happy having him working along with us, is not only a new team member, for me, he’s also a friend. Now, he is our official designer, so all the eggcellents UI/UX you’re going to see, comes from his hand.

🧰 Where my last project was…?

Product Update

And right after that EPIC introduction, will get into a ✨ P R O D U C T U P D A T E ✨ (I don’t know how to write these blogs, help me).

KAPLAYGROUND has evolved not only as a Playground, but also as a full-featured Editor. Now, we’re introducing the 2.2 and 2.3!

In 2.2, we give you the New Project Browser. You can do everything with it: Filter your projects, get into different difficulties, see your saved projects and all with a nicer UX/UI binged by our Courage.

Now, in 2.3 you’re receiving a lot of Quality of Life updates and new code integrations, like auto-complete for components inside add() statements.

Next, in 2.4, we will be adding:

• Version Filter: Filter demos and projects using specific KAPLAY versions.
• ESBuild: Playground works just as your local project does, so features like import/export and bundle code optimization will be possible now!

🖥️ 20 changelogs

Product Update

Okay okay this thing of KAPLAYGROUND is so good but, what’s going on with KAPLAY? There’s a lot of stuff to say about it’s development, so will take on with the ✨ H I G H L I G T H E D ✨ features that are coming now to v4000 alphas:

• Systems API: Replace system-core KAPLAY features (like Physics) and put their own.
• Global Layering: Layers now work globally - #736 - Example
• Picture API: Optimize many draw calls in one with drawPicture() - #650 - Example
• Parent options: Choose want to keep and want to drop when changing an object’s parent, in the obj.setParent API - #562
• A lot of text-related improvements: #676, #687, #691. (Special thanks to dragoncoder047)
• Improvements in rendering: #760

In general terms, those were the most important changes. But there were a lot of bug fixes, you can see them all here.

KAPLAY v4000 is closer than never, maybe we can even get a beta soon, but now the hardest part left, change-logging and documenting (😥).

⛏️ In the cubes KAWorld…

Minecraft Server

Okay, maybe your brain is already tired of reading this (and of me overusing text_styles). Will talk about something fun. In the KAPLAY Minecraft Server:

Thanks to Misa, we reopened our Minecraft Server, so yeah, you can join and play again! Maybe you even found me or Misa playing.

But nothing… nothing can be perfect, right? There’s a problematic we should talk about… Genocide of the iron Golems, done by a person who I considered a friend… If you care about Iron Golems life, I recommend you checking savethegolems.org.

🏳️‍🌈 Pride Month

Community

It’s pride month, June! And KAPLAY show it’s support to all our Queer community, we’re going to highlight a special game made by one of our greatest queer community members and someone I consider a friend. Oh! Also we got this so cool photo for pride month:

Would you like us keeping this photo?

🌱 Community Creations

Community

Now it’s time to see a lot of cool stuff our community made these days.

🏌 Golf Course: Ocean Wave Edition

Erik have finished this great mini-golf game. It’s game feeling, mechanics, visuals, music. All it’s just perfect in this game, so give it a try on Itch.io!

👾 KAPLAYWare, our special highlighted game

From AmySparkNG, Clickery Hexagon creator (and if you haven’t played it, check our section about it in State of KAPLAY #2) is developing a new game called KAPLAYWare (kaplayware or KAPLAYWARE is also acceptable).

It’s like Wario-Ware, but with KAPLAY. It also has it’s own “engine” built on top of KAPLAY.

I sincerely think it’s going the next BIG KAPLAY game, so check out her blog about it.

⚔️ Tutorial: RPG Game using JavaScript

EARTHBOUND, Final Fantasy, Deltarune (me) fans! I think more people should watch this AMAZING and now free tutorial making a fully RPG game system using KAPLAY, just watch it. From the hand of JSLegend (and he’s really a legend):

🎨 KAPLAY-Like assets

Fowl has surprised us with his 29 new KAPLAY-like styled assets, they look so pretty!

You can download them for free in Itch.io.

📦 More stuff

• 🤖 nojaf is exploring REScript along KAPLAY
• 🇫🇷 Colin French docs features a lot of AWESOME examples using KAPLAY

👁️ KAPLAY Crew Revamped

Product Update

Let’s go with Product Updates again with something we’re doing NOW. And it is KAPLAY Crew v2.0, the next Crew Version:

Don’t want to do a lot of spoiler, just expect more assets, more lore, more wiki and a lot of more FUN using our next asset browser. We’re maybe showing more in our social media so be sure to follow us.

🐱 Random Cat GIF

Do you really think it’s okay having this here? OK…

🦖 KAPLAY ANNIVERSARY WHAT WHAT WHAT

Something Special…

Yeah, it’s already been a year with this project. I wanted to do something special, like a video but we didn’t really have the time with everything we’re preparing for the upcoming months. Instead, there’s a little gift for all you…

🦊 HAPPY FONT!

Product Update

Hey! The classic KAPLAY defaulty font happy got a redesign with a bunch of changes on it’s 2.0 version. The main change is that now it’s available in .ttf format, so you can use it in your notepad, your code-editor, terminal, or even in your calculator (doubt it).

It is AVAILABLE NOW on Itch.io:

With that, I want to say thank you to all who uses KAPLAY, enjoy and love it. I love the community we got and all the people around it. Thank you <3

♥️ KAPLAY Supporter

Funding

As you know, KAPLAY is free and open-source. As a way for you to support us, we have launched KAPLAY Supporter donation, with $5/mo, you get a lot of benefits:

• ♥️ Supporter Discord Role
• 🧙 Commission a Character
• 🗳️ Supporter-exclusive Polls
• 👀 Sneak Peeks of Upcoming Features
• ♥️ Private Discord channel with KAPLAY Devs

So, if you want and if you can afford it, would be a big help for us. Anyway, as I always say, making games with KAPLAY and spreading the word about it is already a lot of help <3.

You can check all details about supporting in OpenCollective.

Much of these things you’re seeing in SOK #5 were shared on our supporters channels

🦖 The State of KAPLAY

The State of The State of KAPLAY

So, this is the state of KAPLAY:

State Of	Stable	Dev	What’s coming these weeks
KAPLAY	3001.0.18	4000.0.0	Hover rework, API style normalization
KAPLAYGROUND	2.3.2	2.4.0	ESbuild & Filter per version
KAPLAY Site	1.1.3	1.2.0	New Crew browser
KAPLAY Crew	1.7.0	2.0.0	Package and plugin improvements
Happy Font	2.0	N.A	N.A

📫 The State of The State of KAPLAY

The State of The State of The State of KAPLAY

So okay, we’re reaching the end to the MAGNIFIC State of KAPLAY, the fifth edition. But now, what to expect on the next weeks? I’m not doing a State of KAPLAY every month (I never did, but now I’m realistic).

From now on State of KAPLAY will be held when we get important updates. I want to make state really interesting for reading and having fun as everything we do inside KAPLAY.

However, I would say next one will be not with that big lap like we got in between #4 and #5. Don’t expect it being this big anyway xD

By the way, I opened the 📫-sok-dump channel in our ✨ A W E S O M E ✨ Discord Server, so you can send there what you would like to be in the next State of KAPLAY (SOK 🧦) edition :D

Saying that, I go to go. Bye, thanks for reading and have a nice day.