Gamedev.js Weekly #162

Articles

Get your HTML showcased in front of millions of players and win up to $1000 with the Blur Launch Jam
You will be using the BLUR app as a way to showcase your games. At it won’t take more than 3 lines of JavaScript to get your game working inside the app.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

60-year-old grandfather killed by security guard while playing Pokemon Go
A 60-year-old grandfather left his house in Virginia Thursday night to play Pokemon Go, but never made it back after being shot to death allegedly by a security officer.
Chris Fuchs at NBC News

Construct 3 on mobile
Modern mobile devices have hardware specs rivalling laptop systems with traditional desktop OSs. Wouldn't it be amazing if you could use Construct 3 on the go?

The Danger Crew RPG: lessons learned
The day is finally here. The Danger Crew, an RPG game built with React and Redux, is ready to play!
Drew Conley at Codepen

Super Bowl ads included 3 mobile games: how can they afford it?
Are these mobile games generating sustainable revenues or are they just burning their investors’ cash?
Brendon Boshell at Sweet Pricing

Why our Super Bowl ad failed
While we succeeded creatively, the advertisement showed a disappointing return on investment ($0), and we are now going out of business.
Cards Against Humanity at Medium

Gaming the system... and winning
Borrowing game design elements out of context is a risky way to design experiences, especially experiences intended to bring users back to a site.
Graham Herrli at A List Apart

Tutorials

Make your HTML5 Phaser games run on your local computer with Fenix Web Server
Fenix Web Server is a web server with a clean interface and without all unnecessary stuff like Apache and MySQL which in most cases you won’t need.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

New camera features in Phaser
The new camera features look really interesting and it's worth checking them out. You'll see how easy it is to apply camera effects in your HTML5 games built with Phaser.
Andrzej Mazur at Tuts+ Game Development

Tools

Phaser grid physics plugin

Demos

Campo Alle Comete

Games

Kick The Rat