Gamedev.js Weekly #222

Articles

Some very entertaining plastic, emulated at the Archive
This collection of emulated handheld games, tabletop machines, and even board games stretch from the 1970s well into the 1990s.
Jason Scott at Internet Archive Blogs

Toxic management cost an award-winning game studio its best developers
How the $36 billion video game industry burns out its best employees.
Megan Farokhmanesh at The Verge

PC Building Simulator is a good intro to PC building
PC Building Simulator should really be called IT Support Simulator.
Katharine Castle at Rock Paper Shotgun

Ready Player One is a film for no one, because it has to be for everyone
An homage to the 1980s for... millennials?
Allegra Frank at Polygon

The 16-year-old game prodigies taking India by storm
The game-makers behind studio Vague Pixels used to squeeze in coding after their homework. Now they’re hoping that their frenetic action game Alter Army takes off.
Chris Schilling at The Guardian

Tutorials

Build a HTML5 jigsaw puzzle game with ZIM framework
ZIM is an open source JavaScript Framework for the HTML Canvas powered by CreateJS.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

How to integrate Facebook Instant Games API in your Phaser game – displaying player name and profile picture
There is a lot more to do, like getting player information and display player name and profile picture in the game.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Tools

TensorFlow.js - WebGL accelerated, browser based JavaScript library for training and deploying ML models

Colyseus version 0.9.0 released

Phaser Editor version 1.5.0 released

Demos

Iron Man's arc reactor

Animated SVG avatar

Draggable house

Games

Feudal Wars