Issue #506: js13kGames, NAPL, and single canvas shader gallery

Issue #506 - September 15th 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:

Game developers furious as Unity Engine announces new fees
Unity announces a ‘Runtime Fee’, which will charge developers each time a game using the engine is downloaded.
Keith Stuart at The Guardian

AAA games on iPhone 15 Pro: game changers or gimmick?
Bringing blockbusters to mobile is a potentially exciting prospect, but there are still a lot of questions to be answered.
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz

The mechanical keyboard that runs on Game Boy cartridge shells
Cartridge-based microcontroller is easy to move from keyboard to keyboard.
Scharon Harding at Ars Technica

GTA 6 leaker hacked Rockstar with just an Amazon Fire stick in a hotel room
The 18-year-old hacker told the company in Slack that he was not an employee but 'an attacker'.
Levi Winslow at Kotaku
 

Tutorials:

Easy-to-use Godot UI tutorial – building your first RPG
User interfaces are an essential part of games, and it’s something you’ll learn to do early on. Using this Godot UI tutorial, you’ll get started on that journey using the popular RPG genre.
Daniel Buckley at GameDev Academy
 

Competitions:

163 entries submitted to the js13kGames 2023 competition
 

Tools:

Starting project NAPL - a new free web-based game engine

Colyseus added support for Bun 1.0
 

Demos:

Single canvas shader gallery

Wiggle work

Dizzy
 

Games:

Blumgi Rocket