Issue #480: DreamloJS, confetti gun, and SplatCat

Issue #480 - March 17th 2023

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:

CSGO AK-47 skin sells for $160,000 in one of the biggest skin sales ever
There are many CS:GO skins valued in the tens of thousands. These items are purely cosmetic, and provide no gameplay advantages, but are so coveted due to their appearance and rarity.
Calum Patterson at Dexerto

GPT-4 turns Pokémon Emerald into a text adventure
It’s surprisingly straightforward to play.
Ana Diaz at Polygon

Pi-powered microcontroller is a Lego astronaut with an RGB suit
FigPi runs on an RP2040 chip and has multiple Stemma connectors.
Avram Piltch at Tom's Hardware

20 years later, Second Life is launching on mobile
The so-called proto-metaverse will leap from desktops for the first time.
Samuel Axon at Ars Technica

Funny Kitty Stick simulates cat play time with electromagnetic controllers
Funny Kitty Stick lets players interact with a digital cat, guiding it to endless mischief using a tracking stick and feeling its tugs through electromagnets.
Joel Couture at GameDeveloper
 

Tutorials:

WebGL shadow paps part 2: lighting
Now we’re going to smooth our pixelated edges, add lighting calculations, clean up our code, and look at an alternative to our biasing approach.
Rob Louie's blog

Create an animated physics game with JavaScript
Do you want to create a unique and engaging game with interesting physics and artificial intelligence mechanics?
Beau Carnes at freeCodeCamp
 

Tools:

Dreamlo.js - free and open-source NPM package to add a leaderboard to any game

Drawdown-aligned framework for the gaming industry
 

Demos:

Confetti gun

Cometa

Black hole sun
 

Games:

SplatCat