— issue #274

Business card sized games, Solid chess, and ct.js

Articles

I’m only making business card sized games now
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the smallest game I’ve ever released. I call it “Tiny Ski!”, and it’s 960 bytes of pure magic.
Frank at Killed By A Pixel

Borderlands is getting review bombed on Steam over Epic Store exclusivity
Twenty-four hours and thousands of negative reviews later, Steam’s new anti-review bomb system has yet to defuse the problem.
Nathan Grayson at Kotaku

The impossible architecture of video games
Bang head against wall of text.
Ewan Wilson at Eurogamer

You’ll be able to play Breath of the Wild in VR via Labo, and some Mario too
Two of the Switch’s best titles get VR support.
Cass Marshall at Polygon

Snap Games lets you play instant games while chatting
Eight years after Snapchat debuted, the company is encouraging people to play games with their friends on mobile devices.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat

Jobs

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Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like mobile smashing hit Spinny Gun with no physics engines using Phaser 3 and paths
Ketchapp did it again. Spinny Gun available for both iOS and Android is the 10,000th hyper-casual game made by this studio which becomes a smashing hit.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

How a chess app interacts with Solid
I started playing around with the Solid platform, introduced by Tim Berners-Lee. In order to get more familiar with the different concepts and technologies used, I created a browser chess game.
Pieter Heyvaert's blog

Exploding 3D objects with Three.js
A set of WebGL demos that show an exploding 3D object animation inspired by "Kubrick Life Website: 3D Motion".
Yuriy Artyukh at Codrops

Tools

Get Core, a fully-functional front-end kit in React, free from Mason
Meet the latest evolution in UI kits—Core, a front-end feature kit, is an essential library of building blocks that *actually works.* Create browser-based user-interface software in minutes and free up time for other challenges. Try it free today!

ct.js v1.0.0-next-3 — actions system, Russian docs, and tons of fixes and tweaks

Demos

Opportunity

Grass

Spoids

Games

Canelo-GGG 8Bit Game

16Bit Snake Game

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