Issue #523: Godot games from Game Off, and Monster Valle vs Monster Tamer

Issue #523 - January 12th 2024

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:

Ten great Godot games + source code from Game Off 2023
The 11th annual GitHub Game Off – challenging developers to build a game from scratch in one month – just wrapped up with over 600 submissions – all rated and reviewed by the developers themselves.
Lee Reilly at DevTo

Unity Software laying off 25 percent of staff amid 'company reset'
Huge shakeup mirrors layoffs across the games industry.
Kat Bailey at IGN

My 2-year indie postmortem
2 indie years: what went right, what went wrong, and lessons learned.
Matt Hackett at Valadria

Nintendo’s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I wanted to make something weird’
Few people have influenced global pop culture as much as the creator of Mario and Zelda, widely considered the father of modern gaming. But when you have changed the world, what comes next?
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian
 

Tutorials:

Using TypeScript to build HTML5 games with Phaser, Webpack and Visual Studio Code
Now it’s time to take a new step forward: so far we have been working with JavaScript, but now we will abandon it in favor of TypeScript.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Events:

React Paris conference happening March 22nd
Grab -20% discount by using our 20gamedevjs coupon code.
 

Tools:

Tiny pubs generator

New Tiled plugin in Excalibur.js
 

Resources:

Source code of Monster Valle - full-featured MMORPG based in Pokémon
 

Demos:

When stillness comes

Direction-aware Mickey Mouse

Dweet of the week: metabolic fractal
 

Videos:

Monster Tamer - Pokemon like RPG tutorial with Phaser 3

Why do you always kill gods in JRPGs?
 

Games:

Arkham Sewer Flight Simulator