Issue #457: 3D Diffusion vs GET3D, acid traces, and Tranquility

Issue #457 - October 7th 2022

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Articles:

That time we burned down players’ houses in Ultima Online
A technical teardown of burning down cheaters’ houses after finding a “criminal” ring of illegal item dupers.
Tim Cotten's blog

Disco Elysium's creative talent is no longer at developer ZA/UM
Developers apparently left 'involuntarily'.
Ollie Reynolds at Nintendo Life

New Nvidia PC graphics cards are nearly as big as a PS5 (and power hogs, too)
A graphics card requirement of 1200W means we might have enough spare power for a particle accelerator.
Claire Jackson at Kotaku

EA reveals Need For Speed Unbound, coming in December
Electronic Arts has released the trailer for its long-rumored (and recently leaked) entry in the Need for Speed series.
Rachel Kaser at GamesBeat

Has CD Projekt overburdened itself?
Polish developer once again demonstrates how ambitious it can be, but it's hard not to worry the studio is overreaching.
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz
 

Tutorials:

Build a 3D HTML5 game like Stairs using Godot – step 1: building an endless stair
As I want to start playing with Godot Engine why shouldn’t I start to build a 3D game with it? So here we go.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

How to code a 2D game using JavaScript, HTML, and CSS
You will build a game completely from scratch featuring everything from sprite animation to parallax backgrounds. The game uses just HTML, CSS and plain JavaScript without frameworks or libraries.
Beau Carnes at freeCodeCamp
 

Competitions:

js13kGames 2022 winners announced on Twitter and Medium
 

Tools:

3D Diffusion - 3D generation from a single image

GET3D - generative model of 3D textured shapes from images
 

Demos:

Acid traces

Red and blue

The world outside
 

Games:

Tranquility

Snakes and Ladders