diff --git a/content/news/050/index.md b/content/news/050/index.md index 99d9270d3..99774c7f6 100644 --- a/content/news/050/index.md +++ b/content/news/050/index.md @@ -148,6 +148,26 @@ Current features are: ## Library Updates +### [Lightyear 0.13][lightyear_website] + +[lightyear_website] is a comprehensive networking library for bevy to make multiplayer games. +It comes with multiple types of transports (WebTransport, WebSocket, UDP, etc.) +and supports replication techniques like client-side prediction, server interpolation, interest management and more! +Check out the [examples][lightyear_examples]! + +The latest release, [0.13][lightyear_release], brings two big new features: +- **Steam support**: you can now use the Steamworks SDK as your transport layer, which lets you use the Valve network! +Note that lightyear supports running multiple transports in parallel, so it's possible to have cross-play between steam and non-steam users. +- **Listen-server mode**: it is not possible to run a server and a client in the same process/bevy app. +This is can be useful to avoid the costs of a dedicated server, or to have a similar codebase between singleplayer and multiplayer. + +[Example (with 300ms of latency)](https://github.com/cBournhonesque/lightyear/assets/8112632/ee547c32-1f14-4bdc-9e6d-67f900af84d0) + +[lightyear_website]: https://github.com/cBournhonesque/lightyear +[lightyear_release]: https://github.com/cBournhonesque/lightyear/releases/tag/0.13.0 +[lightyear_examples]: https://github.com/cBournhonesque/lightyear/tree/main/examples + + ## Popular Workgroup Issues in GitHub