RPG Developer Bakin Ver.2.7 Adds Official Steam Deck Support
Bakin has spent years as a hobbyist-focused construction kit, and clearing its exported games for Steam Deck compatibility is what lets those projects stand next to commercial releases on the handheld rather than behind them.
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SmileBoom released Ver.2.7 of RPG Developer Bakin, its Steam PC RPG creation tool. The update adds official Steam Deck support for games exported from the tool, a DirectX 12 beta graphics API option, expanded color grading, WebM playback with alpha transparency, and a new layout tool panel. A Steam showcase of Bakin-made games and a fourth-anniversary sale are running alongside the update.
The Steam Deck support applies to games exported from the tool, not to Bakin itself. SmileBoom cautions that titles using external DLLs such as custom plugins may not run properly, and that Valve decides Steam Deck compatibility per title, so not every Bakin game will earn verification.
DirectX 12 arrives as a beta that can be specified as the graphics API. Parallel shader compilation speeds up startup of exported games, and the GPU particle feature of the effect tool Effekseer becomes available. Users can switch back to the OpenGL version from environment settings if problems appear. The update also expands color grading and adds WebM video playback with an alpha channel for transparent overlays.
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