Gamedev.js Weekly #168

Articles

A day in the life: professional game developer
I love my work and I’m acutely aware of how fortunate I am to be in such an enviable position. I know that I’m the one-in-a-million developer that had everything go right.
True Valhalla's blog

Are mobile games the same as “real games”?
Is Candy Crush comparable to Dark Souls?
Maxx Golbraykh at Indie Watch

Iconoclasts dev on finally finishing the game: 'I feel nothing'
Iconoclasts has been in development in one form or another for ten years now.
Jonathan Holmes at Destructoid

Round Table – Mass Effect: Andromeda
Criticize their work, that’s fine - as creators we often welcome critique as a way to better ourselves and the product we provide to gamers.
Simon Unger at Anim State

The 9 most-anticipated indie video games of 2017
Here are some small studio games that could have a big impact in 2017.
AJ Moser at The Daily Dot

Zeroing the desk
This idea of zeroing the desk is something I've carried forward from those days trying to make it as a sound engineer.
Brendan Dawes at SuperYesMore

The CIA uses board games to train officers — and I got to play them
Also: why the CIA embraces training game cheaters, whether El Chapo hit a fire alarm.
Sam Machkovech at Ars Technica

Tutorials

Crafty beyond the basics: sounds and scenes
Just like images or sprites, sound also plays a vital role in games. The right background music can set the mood for the game. See also Collisions.
Monty Shokeen at Tuts+ Code

Phaser Arcade Slopes Plugin updated to v0.2 – bring your HTML5 platform games to a new dimension
This definitively should bring this plugin into your must have Phaser tools.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Beyond the browser: from web apps to desktop apps
I started out as a web developer, and that’s now one part of what I do as a full-stack developer, but never had I imagined I’d create things for the desktop.
Adam Lynch at Smashing Magazine

Demos

Mario Maker - classic Mario game with level editor

Videos

Strike Tactics pre-alpha gameplay videos

WebGL and WebVR at BristolJS, Feb 2017

GDC 2017 videos at GDC Vault

Games

Undead Drive

Norco: Faraway Lights demo