v1.3.0 — Living Garden & Race Day 🌳🏁
This release is all about the 3D world coming alive: a top-to-bottom performance and visual rewrite of the Living Garden, a brand-new mini-games arcade with leaderboards, a richer racing experience, and a refreshed public landing site + docs.
🌳 Living Garden — rewritten for speed and beauty
A ground-up overhaul of the PlayCanvas dashboard world (#247):
Much faster. Hardware instancing, smarter draw-call batching, a parallelized scene build, and incremental updates — a single repo change now regrows just that one tree instead of rebuilding the whole world. Holds 60fps even at 24+ repos.
Prettier. New single-source color theme, spring-morning lighting, camera post-processing, grass that sways in the wind, drifting pollen, and a dense painterly grass field.
A world worth visiting. Natural wood-bark trees, a teak-plank swimming pool, a packed-earth village with a campfire, benches, yards, and a washing line.
🎮 Mini-games arcade (new!)
A new way to take a break in the garden (#247):
Two games — Lake Fishing and Pollen Pop — with a daily play streak.
Per-game leaderboards, now first-class tabs on the Leaderboard page right next to XP and the race circuits.
A daily Slack nudge to keep your streak alive and call out who's leading.
Games are pure fun: they never award XP — XP stays reserved for real development work.
🏁 Racing
Invite colleagues by Slack DM to race, with a reusable member picker and a more robust test setup (#235).
Boost pads and hurdles added to tracks — with knockdowns, jumps, and speed-scaled launch arcs (#236).
A new circular/organic-loop track with laps, a roadside village, and AI dev bots to race against (#242).
🌐 Landing site & docs
The cramped single-page landing is now a 6-page SEO marketing site with animation (#240).
README restructured as a proper landing page, with reference docs moved into docs/ (#243), refreshed promo imagery and screenshots (#244), and shipped features (Slack bot, GitHub webhook, test-gen, CI/CD) now marked Live today (#246).
🐛 Fixes
Vuetify components now correctly inherit the Hallmark body font (#239).
Full changelog: v1.2.0...v1.3.0