Issue #572 - December 20th 2024

Weekly newsletter about Web Game Development.
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Articles:

How newspaper games like Wordle became behemoths
Charting the meteoric rise of newspaper games, from Wordle to Pile-Up Poker and beyond.
Carli Velocci at Game Developer

NFL team owner reportedly used Madden to make decisions
New York Jets owner Woody Johnson allegedly vetoed a trade due to a low rating in EA's sports sim.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Nvidia partners leak next-gen RTX 50-series GPUs, including a 32GB 5090
The 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, and a 5090D variant for China were also listed.
Andrew Cunningham at Ars Technica

How user-generated content is shaping the future of gaming and media
Transmedia storytelling is booming — just look at how the popularity of Five Nights at Freddy’s game-native IP exploded, or the success of video games based on movies, like the most recent Indiana Jones title.
Jen Larsen at GamesBeat
 

Tutorials:

Vampire Survivors prototype built with Phaser – step 2: adding and collecting coins
Here we go with the second step of Vampire Survivors HTML5 prototype built with Phaser, the framework which has been used to build the original game before the switch to Unity. Now it’s time to make dead enemies drop coins to be collected by the player.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Events:

W3C Games CG November 2024: GameSnacks

jsday 2025 – free tickets and a discount code
 

Tools:

Needle – 3D web engine

Trellis – structured 3D latents for scalable and versatile 3D generation
 

Demos:

Cylinders grid

Footer sparks

Dweet of the week: sunset islands
 

Videos:

I built a cozy JavaScript game (with no experience)

I scraped the entire Steam catalog, here’s the data
 

Games:

Steps