Web GameDev Summit, Make JavaScript Games, and Vampire Survivors

Articles

Welcoming the incredible teams and legendary franchises of Activision Blizzard to Microsoft Gaming
Creators of Call of Duty, Warcraft, Candy Crush, Tony Hawk, Diablo, Overwatch, Spyro, Hearthstone, Guitar Hero, Crash Bandicoot, StarCraft and more join Team Xbox.
Phil Spencer at Xbox Wire

Pokémon Go trading halted after player gets extremely lucky
Someone made out like a bandit thanks to a Pokémon Go bug.
Ian Walker at Kotaku

5 misconceptions about Metaverse
Despite sounding complicated to imagine when applied to our everyday lives, the concept of Metaverse — an alternative reality enabled by high technology — is familiar through entertainment, films, and books.
Metaguild's blog

Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has led to extensive crunch at TT Games
The longtime Lego game studio has spent almost five years on its latest project.
Jack Yarwood at Polygon

Jobs

Front-End Web Developer at OP Games
Build great blockchain games with a team of experienced veterans. See also other open positions.

Tutorials

Phaser.js platformer aim and shoot mechanics
Using independently rotated arms and raycasting.
Kirk Morris at Hashnode

Pure TypeScript class to handle Drag and Match games in just a few lines – part 2: detecting matches
If you are going to build a Drag and Match game, you need to be able to detect matches.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Events

Web GameDev Summit - online on April 7-8th 2022
Use promo code 'GamedevJSWeekly' and buy tickets with 15% discount.

Tools

Phaser Editor 2D v3.32.0 released - welcome Marketplace

Resources

Make JavaScript Games eBook - learn how to build JavaScript games with Kaboom.js on Replit

Demos

Animated Koch snowflake

Fractal waves

Fish scales tessellated pattern in CSS

Games

Vampire Survivors