Issue #481: Sonniss giveaway, auto snake, and Bullet Bunny

Issue #481 - March 24th 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:

Counter-Strike 2 will bring a huge technical overhaul to the classic shooter
Sub-tick-rate updates seek to end a long-standing struggle for precise gameplay.
Samuel Axon at Ars Technica

Magic: The Gathering Black Lotus card sells for a record $540,000
But is the market topping out?
Oli Welsh at Polygon

CCP Games raises $40M for new triple-A Web3 game in the Eve universe
The new game is a big project and that’s why Reykjavík, Iceland-based CCP Games went beyond its owner Pearl Abyss to look for external funding.
Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat

Inside the game development stories of the 2023 Independent Games Festival Winners
Learn about the winners of this year's Independent Games Festival, and hear the stories behind their games.
Alissa McAloon at Game Developer
 

Tutorials:

New massive update to Serious Scramblers prototype built with nocode tool GDevelop
Now there are 6 different enemy types interacting and killing each other.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Stylized water shader
I will explain step-by-step how to create a beautiful stylized water shader in Unity using Shader Graph.
Alexander Ameye's blog
 

Tools:

Phaser 3.60.0 beta 20 released

Godot arrives in the Epic Games Store
 

Resources:

Sonniss 44GB+ sound effect giveaway
 

Demos:

Auto snake

Voxelizing Three.js geometries

Golden tinfoil-wrapped candy
 

Games:

Bullet Bunny