Mickey Hooks, destructible terrain, and role-swapped Space Invaders

Articles

Designing friendly robot settlement sim The Colonists to be deep, yet inviting
After watching the way humans work for far too long, a team of robots are looking to start their own world on a distant planet, in an attempt to be human, in The Colonists.
Jupiter Hadley at Gamasutra

Facing financial pressures, GOG quietly lays off at least a dozen staff
Amid a month full of mass layoffs across the video game industry, the digital store GOG quietly let go of what it says was a dozen staff last week.
Jason Schreier at Kotaku

MapleStory M director on the challenges of bringing a 15-year-old MMORPG to mobile
The mobile MMO, based off the hit PC games, reached five million global downloads two weeks after launch and 10 million within the first 100 days.
Natalie Clayton at Pocket Gamer Biz

'Geek philanthropy': the gamers raising millions through marathon live streams
Charities are reaping the benefits of these modern-day telethons as video game players fundraise live on the internet.
Patrick Lum at The Guardian

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Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like Mikey Hooks using Phaser and Matter.js
No matter the language, engine or framework you are using to build your hooks, they will all rely on a constraint called distance joint.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Build a space shooter with Phaser 3
This is a free course that covers creating a space shooter with Phaser 3. It is recommended you have the basics of JavaScript under your belt before starting.
Jared York at York Computer Solutions

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Destructible Terrain With Phaser helper library

Demos

Role-swapped Space Invaders

Displacement scroll

Games

Habbo Clicker

Kingdom of Objalinsk