Gamedev.js Weekly #236

Articles

Artist uses GTA V to explore American gun violence
Elegy: GTA USA Gun Homicides was created by the Scottish professor and launched on July 4th 2018.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Valve leaks Steam game player counts; we have the numbers
Valve plugged the hole, but important data has already escaped.
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica

Inside a $1 billion real estate company operating entirely in VR
By several measures, the company is experiencing a moment of true exponential growth.
Aaron Frank at SingularityHub

Open source sustainability
Open source maintainers are exhausted and rarely paid. A new generation wants to change the economics.
Danny Crichton at Tech Crunch

Jobs

Senior Game Developer at CoolGames

Tutorials

HTML5 Down the Mountain prototype built with Phaser updated to Phaser 3
The game features object pooling to recycle all blocks – actually hexagons – which fly off the top of the canvas.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Fully playable prototype of Plus+Plus built in JavaScript using only jQuery part 2 – removing numbers
In the original game there is an option to remove a number by clicking on a special tile.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Resources

The Complete Programming and Full-Stack Bundle – 40 Course Smart Curriculum
Take the leap and invigorate your portfolio by mastering Python, Machine Learning, Full-Stack Web Development, HTML5, Unity and VR Development.

Demos

Low poly animals

Visualizing the Earth's orbit and seasons

The beauty of mathematics - linear transformations

Videos

Mad World MMO - wip maps teaser

Coding Minecraft from scratch with C++ and OpenGL - part 1

Games

Stock Car Hero