2016/12/16 — issue #154

Gamedev.js Weekly #154

Articles

Thousands of Amiga games now available to play in your web browser
The Internet Archive is at it again, this time uploading a massive collection of over 2,000 classic Amiga games for you to play.
Alex Riviello at Geek

How we design games now and why
How game design practice is shaped by business, technology and culture.
Katharine Neil at Medium

Third Age of Empires 2 expansion announced
Age of Empires 2 just keeps on going - the people behind the HD version of the real-time strategy game have just announced a third official expansion.
Wesley Yin-Poole at Eurogamer

Unreleased 'Akira' title for Game Boy resurfaces
Patrick Scott Patterson, retro game hunter-gatherer, managed to pick up four slightly different copies of the mid-development Akira title on the Game Boy.
Mat Smith at Engadget

Can PewDiePie play my game?
It’s a new world, folks. Traditional gaming press is dead and teenagers making videos in their basements have taken over.
Michelle Shaw at Kongregate Developers

Jobs

JavaScript / HTML5 Game Developer (m/f) @ SOFTGAMES, Berlin

Tutorials

Create a HTML5 game like Space is Key using Phaser, tweens and Arcade physics
First prototype to be rebuilt, using Arcade physics and tweens rather than frame by frame operations I used in the original prototype. See also step 2: adding spikes.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Create clothing for a character with Blender
We will be using Blender to import and create animated clothing for our character. You can also use Blender to export your character into pretty much any game engine.
Sandra Gerber at Tuts+ Game Development