2020/04/17 — issue #328

Ludum Dare 46, Pixelbox.js, and GDC 2020 videos

Articles

Azerion acquires Spil Games
Azerion has taken complete ownership of Spil Games, giving it the leading position in casual games across all platforms and dominance in its Netherlands home.
Spil Games press

Covid-19 kills renowned Princeton mathematician, Game Of Life inventor John Conway
Conway's most notable contribution to his field may have been his invention of the Game of Life, leading to the popularization of cellular automaton.
Cecilia Levine at Daily Voice

Valve explains the deceptively simple design process that made Half-Life: Alyx excellent
Creating Half-Life: Alyx was truly approached ‘one room at a time’.
Ben Lang at Road to VR

Breakthrough of Digital Culture: Finland accepts the Demoscene on its national UNESCO list of intangible cultural heritage of humanity
Finland became the forerunner of understanding and accepting digital culture in general and the Demoscene in particular as cultural heritage.
Demoscene – The Art of Coding

Families are moving weddings, birthday parties, and phone nights into online games
Birthday parties, weddings, and more — all online.
Cass Marshall at Polygon

Jobs

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Tutorials

Play with light and dark using ray casting and visibility polygons – updated to Phaser 3
That was an interesting experiment using ray casting merged with Byron Knoll‘s visibility polygon script, rendered with Phaser.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

How to communicate between scenes in Phaser 3
Use events to pass data between Scenes for decoupled code.
Tommy Leung at Ourcade