Issue #445: Unity merger, Ants Sandbox, and Jeopardy

Issue #445 - July 15th 2022

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Articles:

Nintendo to acquire visual production firm Dynamo Pictures
Company to be renamed Nintendo Pictures and work on "visual content utilising Nintendo IP".
Marie Dealessandri at GamesIndustryBiz

I’m obsessed with Warhammer fantasy lore because of a single map
Immortal Empires can’t come soon enough.
Mike Mahardy at Polygon

Tony Hawk dives into The Sandbox to build a virtual skate park
It’s a bold new adventure for Hawk, who has been a key figure in skateboard gaming for decades. Since launching in 1999, his Tony Hawk Pro Skater franchise generated over $1.4 billion in sales.
Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat

There's an official Wordle board game now
A perfect gift for people who you don't know anything about except that they play Wordle.
Christopher Livingston at PC Gamer
 

Tutorials:

Continuous collision detection between a moving circle and one or more static line segments – vertex collision included
It has been a long journey but now I can predict when a moving circle will hit a static line segment, no matter the circle velocity.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Detect overlap between selection box and sprites
Use a selection rectangle for multi-unit selection in an RTS-style game.
Tommy Leung at Ourcade
 

Tools:

Unity announces merger agreement with ironSource

A look at Unity's recent acquisitions and partnerships from the gamedev point of view
 

Resources:

Big Twitter thread of gamedev threads
 

Demos:

Ants Sandbox

DNA
 

Videos:

Code your own Jeopardy game with Ania Kubów
 

Games:

Merchant Empire