Gamedev.js Weekly - Issue #364: a year in review

Issue #364 - December 25th 2020

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.
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Articles:

The biggest video game surprises of 2020
2020 was full of shockers.
Ari Notis at Kotaku

What did 2020 mean for the games industry?
A cold financial calculation would characterize this year as a massive success, but it was much more than just numbers.
Nicole Carpenter at Polygon

The 15 best video games of 2020
A queer coming-of-age story charmed us, a balletic shoot-em-up raised our adrenaline and the star game of lockdown provided a desert-island escape from real life.
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian
 

Jobs:

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Tutorials:

Clocks The Game HTML5 playable game with 10 levels updated to Phaser 3 with commented source code
Click or tap to fire the ball from the highlighted clock, try to highlight all clocks to advance levels.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Events:

W3C Games Community Group - December 2020 meetup report
 

Competitions:

Game Off 2020 results
 

Resources:

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Demos:

Countdown to New Year

Hands
 

Games:

Dungeonz

Sol Attrition