2018/10/05 — issue #248

Project Stream, flocking, and js13kGames winners

Articles

Google announces Project Stream, which lets you stream games in Chrome
The first game supported will be Assassin’s Creed Odyssey.
Jason Schreier at Kotaku

Total War: Rome 2 is getting review-bombed on Steam because of women generals
A claim that Creative Assembly has dramatically increased the percentage of female generals has sparked the usual outrage.
Andy Chalk at PC Gamer

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment to distribute Cyberpunk 2077 in North America
Cyberpunk 2077 is a narrative-driven, open-world RPG set in the most vibrant and dangerous metropolis of the future — Night City.
CD Projekt News

Why GameMaker Studio's YoYo Games is getting into indie publishing
The word Indie certainly seems to be the buzzword over at Dundee-based games outfit YoYo Games right now.
Iain Harris at Pocket Gamer

Number punchers: how Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest handle combat math
There’s now been well over 30 years of computer RPGs, and one feature most of them have in common is that they’re awfully vague about their combat math.
John Harris at Gamasutra

Flocking
Have you ever watched a school of fish, a flock of birds, or even a crowd of people and watched how they move?
Drew Cutchins' blog

1+2=3 HTML5 game built with Phaser update to Phaser 3 and commented
If you think you are quick and clever with simple math operations, 1+2=3 will prove your skills.
Emanuele Feronato's blog