Coding games, WebGazer, and Mr Square

Articles

13 coding games to level up your programming skills
Coding games are an oft-overlooked way of learning a new programming language or improving your knowledge of an existing one.
X-Team's blog

Come build your own empty town
Townscaper is a new building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities and children’s books.
Marie Patino at Bloomberg

Microsoft's Flight Simulator is a ticket to explore the world again
With its stunningly realistic visuals and cutting-edge use of geographic and weather data, this flight sim offers a virtual chance to travel freely once more.
Keith Stuart at The Guardian

Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Combining reinforcement learning with search at AI model training and test time has led to a number of advances.
Kyle Wiggers at VentureBeat

Defying game design rules to simulate dementia in Before I Forget
3-Fold Games' Chella Ramanan and Claire Morwood on the difficulty of developing a short game and the invaluable support from Humble and Gaming The Mind.
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz

Jobs

Quantum Game is hiring a JavaScript Developer
They are looking for a dev for the Quantum Game - an in-browser science-based game, and an educational platform. They have a mission to make quantum mechanics fun and accessible, worldwide.

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Tutorials

Bouncing Light Phaser prototype rendered in 3D thanks to ThreeJS and Phaser 3D
This time we’ll see how to turn a plain and flat 2D game into a shiny 3D game using Phaser 3D without changing any single line of the original 2D prototype.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Practical guide to Matter physics collision filtering in Phaser 3
Learn how groups, categories, and masks work so you can use them confidently.
Tommy Leung at Ourcade

Tools

A browser plugin for Unity

Macintosh.js - a virtual Apple Macintosh with System 8, running in Electron

WebGazer.js - democratizing webcam eye tracking on the browser

Resources

Best Practices on How to Speed Up Your Postgres Queries. Free eBook
Learn how companies like Robinhood and Atlassian are able to speed up their queries by orders of magnitude. In this ebook, we share our best practices for optimizing Postgres performance.

Demos

CSS Mastermind

Glowing slinky

Videos

Exploring the AI of Command & Conquer

Games

Mr Square