There were several changes in this release, including improvements to the Unreal plugin, the Kubernetes deployments, and the backend.

See the GitHub release notes or click Read More below for details.

Bug fixes​

This release fixes compiler errors caused by missing includes.

See the GitHub release notes.

ARedwoodCharacter has been replaced with URedwoodCharacterComponent​

This breaking change changes how player character data is set up. Long story short, to support pawns that inherit from APawn instead of ACharacter, the data persistence happens in an Actor Component instead of an Actor. This supports using Redwood with the UE Mover plugin, the marketplace GMCv2 plugin, and other scenarios that don't use UCharacterMovementComponent.

See the GitHub release notes or click Read More below.

Redwood is now out of Early Access with the release of version 1.0.0!

This release includes:

🏹 RPG template project
🗺️ Zones, shards, portals, and basic character data
🎒 Inventory, interactables, and merchants
🏰 Instanced dungeons

See the GitHub release notes or click Read More below.

After conducting a survey, over 75% of the participants favored switching to a royalty fees based model. Here's what that change will look like:

• If you purchase(d) Redwood before Oct 1, you'll keep your unlimited projects perpetual license with full source code, free perpetual updates, and never owe royalties
• Indie Licensees can keep their current license or opt for a refund and switch to the royalty model
• After Oct 1, everyone can use Redwood with limited source code and 4% gross revenue royalties after $100k USD
• Custom licenses are available for full source code, console support, private/dedicated support, reduced royalty rate, and co-development

🌲 I'm extremely excited to announce Redwood's Indie Program! 🌲

💰 Accepted studios only pay $295 initially (~90% off)
🔓 Get the full benefits of our Standard License
🚀 You only pay the remaining balance when/if you launch with Redwood

It's finally here! Our next major release has landed, and it comes with a ton of updates:

• Lobbies
• Multiple realms
• Sharding (a.k.a. zones & instances)
• Idem matchmaking
• Steam Authentication
• Updated Shooter Template (now called the Match Template)
• Easier & more robust deployment tooling
• Improved backend/game updating process
• HCP Vault for configuration secrets
• Improved Redwood Installer (which downloads the prebuilt UE with Redwood support)

Here's a quick development update for Redwood!

• Dogfooding Redwood
• Steam Authentication

Hello again! Looks like we missed an update last month, so we'll have to double up this month! Our top priority still is getting baseline MMORPG support implemented:

• Finished multi-realm support
• Added sharding support
• Increased scalability of backend services
• Added Idem support
• Improved deployment process

We’re excited to announce that Redwood recently received an Epic MegaGrant! This support from Epic Games will accelerate development of Redwood’s most requested features including gameplay templates with player counts of 100s-1000s per server and out-of-the-box support for seamless travel between persistent and instanced servers. With the MegaGrant, we’re excited to move one step closer to realizing our vision to make scalable multiplayer games more accessible.