2024/07/19 — issue #550

Fabric.js v6, oscillating gradient, and Harvest Horizons

Articles

Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs
Leaked payroll data reveals just how small one of the most important companies in gaming actually is.
Jay Peters at The Verge

How will Project 2025 impact game developers?
The Heritage Foundation's manifesto for the possible next administration could do great harm to many, including large portions of the game development community.
Bryant Francis at Game Developer

82 percent of adult gamers have spent money an a F2P game, new study shows
A lot of people in United States are buying stuff in games like Fortnite and Warzone.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Tutorials

Deconstructing the role-playing video game
I want to write about an rpg-cli spin-off. Rpg-cli is one of my fondest personal projects and I never properly documented its development, so I’ll start this post by doing just that.
Facundo Olano's blog

Web game performance optimization
If you’re trying to be inclusive and accessible in your game dev, which I know most of us are, you need to be making it possible for older devices to play your games.
Kevin Glass at Dusk