The entire Cafu website is now served exclusively via HTTPS.
HTTPS is a protocol for secure communication over a computer network (Wikipedia). Although all
of our content is open and readily available to everyone and even though
the user logins are for authentication rather than for authorization,
protecting the forum ...
Well, I could barely believe this myself: I checked out Cafu on a Raspberry Pi
2 for the very first time, compiled – and without further ado, it worked!
Simple as that. 
This is remarkable because Cafu, even though designed for cross-platform
portability, has never been run on an ARM architecture ...
We have always had the problem that Cafu requires a large amount of binary assets (mostly texture images) for being useful: Making a good first impression, demonstrate important features, getting started with mapping – all these require proper binary assets. Even C++ core hackers enjoy seeing a couple of texture images ...
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I'm happy to announce that today we have changed the Cafu license from the GNU
General Public License (GPLv3) to the MIT license.
The MIT license is very liberal, short and easy to understand even for legal
laymen. It provides a well-established and reliable basis for software
projects. Our ...
Dear friends,
I am very happy to announce that after many years, our website has been
completely overhauled.
Cafu's website has been largely unchanged since was implemented with Joomla back in
2008, so you can imagine how excited I am to update it. The formerly
used "Firenzie" theme has ...
In my previous news post "Client features
revisited", I talked about several important client features and how
they have recently been improved.
As promised there, although this is rather a technical documentation than
suitable prose for a news post, I would still like to provide a brief overview
on how ...
Among Cafu's most prominent and important features are the networking code and, closely related to that, the client prediction feature. These two together implement a client-server network model that allows fast multi-player games over the internet, where the prediction makes sure that network lag is compensated for so that ...
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Dear friends,
as every time around the New Year, I would like to briefly summarize the
current developments and plans regarding the Cafu Engine.
Entity Component System
Generally, the development of the Cafu Engine progresses steadily and
continuously, and the Entity Component System is still at the center of the ...
A while ago, in September, I considered it a good idea to remove the "groups" feature from the Map Editor. This was fueled by the observation that entities too can naturally and inherently serve for grouping the individual elements in a map. Keeping a second, explicit mechanism for the same ...
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Today there was another very nice article at the renowned German publisher
Heise about compensating the lag in online games by means of the "client
prediction" technique:
Verzögerungen in Online-Spielen durch Client-Side Prediction kompensieren
(text is in German)
The author Christian Oeing explains the basics of online games whose simulated ...