Gamedev.js Jam 2024, Free Game Assets, and Geoshootria

Articles

Apple updates App Store guidelines to permit game emulators, website links in EU music apps
Guideline 4.7 permits apps to offer HTML5 mini apps and mini games, streaming games, chatbots, game emulators, and plug-ins.
Juli Clover at MacRumors

Why are younger generations embracing the retro game revival?
Retro video games and aesthetics are having a moment, but it’s not just gen X and older millennials reliving their heyday: younger millennials and gen Z are getting in on the nostalgia too.
Harriet Shepherd at The Guardian

Resilience and innovation on display as the games industry looks to bounce back at GDC 2024
Key trends included the emergence of new AI tools, the erosion of platform boundaries through new translation layers, and the surprise re-emergence of web-based gaming.
Liam Deane and George Jijiashvili Game Developer

10 years on, leaks have given us a long look at the canned Batman game that became Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor
And boy, does it look like an Arkham game.
Joshua Wolens at PC Gamer

Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like Netflix’s Teeter (Up) using Phaser and Box2D physics, written in TypeScript – part 1: platform movement
It’s a simple physics game with a ball, a platform, and a hole. What could possibly go wrong?
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Competitions

Gamedev.js Jam 2024 starts April 13th - join on Itch!

All Challenges in Gamedev.js Jam 2024: Open Source, Phaser, NPC, and js13kGames

Tools

InstancedSpriteMesh - high performant instancing of animated sprites in Three.js

Resources

Free Game Assets - collection of lists

Demos

Polyrhythms

Waved 3: superposition

Dweet of the week: d/29757

Videos

What Capcom didn't tell you about Resident Evil 4

The Triple-i Initiative 2024: a new gaming showcase

Games

Geoshootria

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