Color psychology, Vanta, and mirror

Articles

Color psychology in game design – how do colors help design better games?
Colors significantly impact the psyche of players. Read on for a journey through colors in game design from the perspective of psychological research.
Karolina Cieślak at Try Evidence

RIP Bethesda Launcher: here’s how its nearly full transfer to Steam will work
Warning comes ahead of game-transfer process, which kicks off in April.
Sam Machkovech at Ars Technica

Pan Africa Gaming Group aims to bring a billion new players to gaming
The group of 10 game studios unveiled itself at the Africa Games Week 2022 event in Cape Town, South Africa.
Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat

Tencent pledges to become carbon neutral by 2030
Chinese company to switch to green energy fully by the end of the decade.
Marie Dealessandri at GamesIndustryBiz

Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like Wordle using Phaser – step 1: keyboard input and result management
If you don’t live on Mars, you probably know Wordle game. Developed in October 2021 by Josh Wardle, after a couple of months it was acquired by the New York Times “for an undisclosed price in the low-seven figures.”
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Guide to building a game developer portfolio
Although working as a solo game developer can be a rewarding experience, there may come a time when you wish to find a job at an established company.
Lindsay Schardon at GameDev Academy

Events

BeJS conference - hybrid event on May 13th

Tools

Vanta.js - animated website backgrounds in a few lines of code

Demos

Mirror

Diamond ring

Queen of hearts

Videos

Society if all games were open source - Paul Gadi at ETH Denver

Games

Don't Spoil It