Gamedev.js Weekly #231

Articles

Microsoft to acquire GitHub for $7.5 billion
Acquisition will empower developers, accelerate GitHub’s growth and advance Microsoft services with new audiences.
Microsoft News Center

New documentary We Are Alright is a fascinating and brutally ordinary story of indie development
Have you heard the one about Lichtspeer? I doubt it, and that's the point.
Robert Purchese at Eurogamer

Evolve dev: 4v1 gameplay caused 'more problems that we ever imagined'
Writer and designer Matt Colville suggested the title struggled under the weight of its 4v1 gameplay, which sees four hunters take on a single player-controlled monster.
Chris Kerr at Gamasutra

Three, four, give me more games, more
What kind of questions you have to ask yourself before starting a video game development.
Dominika Kuczyńska at DaftMobile

What I found curating an Awesome Overwatch collection
I dove through every page of Github, Codepen, and the Chrome Web Store search to find the largest pool of tools, projects, experiments, and demos.
Chris Dolphin at Medium

Jobs

Full-Stack Web Engineer at DICE

Tutorials

Pandaban – build HTML5 Sokoban game with Panda2 and play it with keyboard or by swiping
You should know I am a Sokoban fan, and now it’s time to show you the Panda2 prototype.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Making Avengers ID card in HTML and CSS
Let’s suppose Tony Stark would like to redesign the ID cards of the Avengers, and he needs our help to create them in HTML and CSS.
Kunal Sarkar at Smashing Magazine

Space Rocks — WebXR tech deep dive
This technical deep dive explains how I built this WebXR game—and how you can make one too.
Stewart Smith at Medium

Kickstarter

The 2018 Procedural Generation Jam

Resources

Arcade button component for React Native

Demos

Pure CSS Tic Tac Toe with SVG

Games

Get It Filled 2