Issue #463: UrTurn, slay the dragon, and Emerald Woods

Issue #463 - November 18th 2022

If you have anything you want to share with the HTML5 game development community please let me know by sending an email to andrzej.mazur@end3r.com.
I'm also open for related sponsorship opportunities and job listings.
 

Articles:

World of Warcraft, Overwatch, and more pulled in China over Blizzard NetEase clash
NetEase executive blames Activision ‘jerk’ for end of Blizzard games in China.
Owen S. Good at Polygon

Sonic co-creator Yuji Naka arrested over suspected insider trading
The arrest is part of a wider investigation into insider trading at Japanese publisher Square Enix.
Chris Kerr at Game Developer

Four lessons Apex Legends: Mobile can teach about porting AAA franchises to mobile
GameRefinery's Erno Kiiski looks into what makes Respawn's smartphone spin-off a successful handheld title.
Erno Kiiski at GamesIndustryBiz

Lawsuit claims Google struck a $360 million deal to prevent Activision Blizzard creating its own app store
The lawsuit claims Google has struck at least 24 deals to prevent competition.
Lewis Rees at PocketGamerBiz
 

Tutorials:

Create Stardew Valley using Python and Pygame
Stardew Valley is a popular open-ended country-life RPG video game. But instead of just playing the game, why not code your own version?
Beau Carnes at freeCodeCamp

Build a 3D HTML5 game like Stairs using Godot – step 4: controlling the ball with the mouse and adding more spikes
There is quite a lot to do in this step, so let’s jump straight to the point: we need more spikes.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Events:

WeyWeyWeb 2022 conference - December 15th-16th in Malaga, Spain
 

Tools:

UrTurn - deploy room functions for your games
 

Demos:

Slay the dragon

Stunt preloader

Extreme perspective
 

Videos:

Rust comes to Godot 4
 

Games:

Emerald Woods