— issue #395

ICGJ21, Bevy, and Dungeons and Dogs

Articles

Kongregate.io will hit open beta later this year with NFT games
KongregateIO is a celebration of Kongregate’s 15 years in the gaming space and redefines what a web gaming platform is for today’s market.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat

Social and historical relationship between speedrunning and glitches (Twitter thread)
...and how the concept of a glitch is too blurry for simple hard and fast rules.
Gankra on Twitter

Thoughts on gaming economics, NFTs and the Metaverse (Twitter thread)
Back in early university, I spent a lot of time abscessed with the study of game dynamics. Both the internal economics and player lifecycles.
Adam Cochran on Twitter

Panic sells 20,000+ Playdate handhelds in under 20 minutes
The buzz around the little retro-inspired handheld seemed strong — but would that translate into actual sales? The answer, it seems, is a hard yes.
Greg Kumparak at TechCrunch

Tutorials

Serious Scramblers HTML5 prototype built with Phaser and TypeScript – Adding platform types
Let’s add some new features to Serious Scramblers prototype, trying to turn it into a more complete game. I added two new platform types.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Phaser Platformer Series #20: collapsing platforms
These will start to wobble once our hero lands on them, and after a short amount of time they collapse and are destroyed forever.
Tom Harrison at Digitherium

Events

ICGJ21: International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events 2021, online on August 2nd

Competitions

New Decentralized category in js13kGames 2021

Tools

Night Eye is a browser extension that protects your eyes by enabling dark mode on any website.
Unlike other extensions, Night Eye uses a smart conversion algorithm (no color inversion), has no ads, and has great support. Get a 25% discount on the lifetime offering by using discount code gamedev at checkout.

Bevy - data-driven game engine built in Rust

Demos

Practice / 3.js

SVG Path animated text

Games

Dungeons and Dogs

Jetpack Joyride

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