2021/03/12 — issue #375

Taro, Spirit Dungeons, and Keridwen

Articles

Five great indie games to look out for in 2021
As someone always looking for new indie games to play around with, I have cherry picked five games that look very interesting and are coming to Steam this year.
Jupiter Hadley at Indie Games Plus

Todd Howard: 'There was very little we didn't screw up' on Fallout 76 launch
Howard thinks Microsoft's resources will help Bethesda prevent future launch mishaps.
Jonathan Bolding at PC Gamer

Star Citizen developers fed up after being expected to work during devastating Texas snowstorm
Power and heat outages, as well as resulting food and water shortages, led many businesses to temporarily shut down, including a large number of Texan game studios.
Nathan Grayson at Kotaku

Jobs

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Tutorials

Create a State Machine for character logic in TypesSript
Simplify code for creating complex character logic and actions.
Tommy Leung at Ourcade

Pure JavaScript class with no dependencies to handle math draw games like DrawSum
Build your HTML5 math game in a matter of minutes.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Tools

📈Timescale Analytics Project: Time-Series Analytics for PostgreSQL
Timescale Analytics aims to combine all the capabilities SQL needs to perform time-series analytics into a single PG extension, built with Rust – and we want (and need) your help. See current proposals, ways to contribute, plus how to join us & shape the project 💪

Taro - a lightweight game engine for the web

Phaser 3.53 released