2018/01/19 — issue #211

Gamedev.js Weekly #211

Articles

Nintendo Labo turns Switch console into interactive toys 'like cardboard Lego'
Nintendo’s ingenious upcoming release for its Switch console uses augmented reality to make working cars, pianos and full-body robot suits – teaching coding and engineering principles through play.
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian

Topic every game dev is talking about behind closed doors: the cost of doing business
Content warning: I’ve embedded some tweets to various developers that show the sorts of comments that they receive every day. There’s some strong language in there.
Morgan Jaffit at Medium

Microsoft and Alibaba AI programs beat humans in Stanford reading comprehension test for the first time
Bot or not? This special series explores the evolving relationship between humans and machines, examining the ways that robots, artificial intelligence and automation are impacting our work and lives.
Nat Levy at Geek Wire

How to actually finish your first game this year
It is the new year and that means it is resolution season. There is a good chance that you have decided, this year, finally, to finish a game.
Chris Zukowski at Gamasutra

Jam favorites: js13kGames 2017
I played all of them in my compilation video series, and below are a few of my favorites, in a random order.
Jupiter Hadley at Big Boss Battle

Tutorials

How to make your HTML5 game run as a native Android TV app using Android Studio and Cordova
If you aren’t familiar with these tools, I already wrote two detailed tutorials. You can also play Stack the Crates on your Android TV – probably the first Phaser game running on Android TV.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Hello, Playground! - introduction to Oxygen Playground with Live Experiments services used to learn easly about Oxygen engine
Series of tutorials about making games with Oxygen Core game engine. Part 1: introduction, part 2: entity movement, part 3: input handling.
PsichiX at HTML5GameDevs forums

Demos

Podcasts

❬Aside❭ Quest - video games podcast for people who are too busy to play video games

Games

Crash Racing

Salvage

Wild Wild West Bandits