— issue #288

Palette Wizard, QuickJS, and popup trombone

Articles

Iconic Doom3 game now in browsers with WebAssembly: Q&A with Gabriel Cuvillier
The 7-week full-time effort illustrated both the present performance potential and the missing parts for WebAssembly today to seamlessly run heavy-weight desktop applications and games.
Bruno Couriol at InfoQ

Nintendo announces Switch Lite console
The new model of the handheld console – which is cheaper, lighter and smaller than the original – will be released in September.
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian

Some tips on how to NOT make a video game
I have over 12 years of experience in "Wanting To Make A Game But Never Actually Finishing Or Releasing Anything", and would love to share my expertise.
Plasmubik at Reddit

Valve launches Steam Labs to publicly prototype new store features
Discovering games on the Steam store is difficult. Valve is hoping to find new ways to combat that through the launch of its Steam Labs tool.
Jeff Grubb at VentureBeat

The esports pipeline problem
Unlike regular sports, esports are missing a formal process for turning amateur players into professionals. We look into why.
Will Partin at Polygon

Jobs

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Tutorials

Dashy Panda HTML5 game prototype improved with coins to collect, powered by Phaser and Arcade physics
Since we care to reuse objects and sprites as much as we can, there is only one coin which is placed some pixels away from the right edge of the screen.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

DroidScript GameView tutorials
Seven lessons from introduction on how DroidScript games are built, through backgrounds and how to scroll them, sound effects, to characters and their animations.
DroidScript GameView

Crowdfunding

MMORPG Academy - Create Your Dream Online RPG

Events

Famobi Chill and Grill, August 20th 2019

Tools

Palette Wizard

QuickJS JavaScript engine

Demos

Popup trombone

Simple fire animation

Stock imagery Thanos simulator

Games

Zoo Boom

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