Issue #375: Taro, Spirit Dungeons, and Keridwen

Issue #375 - March 12th 2021

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Articles:

Five great indie games to look out for in 2021
As someone always looking for new indie games to play around with, I have cherry picked five games that look very interesting and are coming to Steam this year.
Jupiter Hadley at Indie Games Plus

Todd Howard: 'There was very little we didn't screw up' on Fallout 76 launch
Howard thinks Microsoft's resources will help Bethesda prevent future launch mishaps.
Jonathan Bolding at PC Gamer

Star Citizen developers fed up after being expected to work during devastating Texas snowstorm
Power and heat outages, as well as resulting food and water shortages, led many businesses to temporarily shut down, including a large number of Texan game studios.
Nathan Grayson at Kotaku
 

Jobs:

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Tutorials:

Create a State Machine for character logic in TypesSript
Simplify code for creating complex character logic and actions.
Tommy Leung at Ourcade

Pure JavaScript class with no dependencies to handle math draw games like DrawSum
Build your HTML5 math game in a matter of minutes.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Tools:

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Taro - a lightweight game engine for the web

Phaser 3.53 released
 

Resources:

Coding for kids: best learning tools and resources

Humble Software Bundle: fresh start game dev assets
 

Demos:

Ghost card

Wildfire

Toon fireball
 

Videos:

Space Invaders in JavaScript (no-nonsense version)

JavaScript Game Tutorial: 2D Tower Defense (also part two)
 

Games:

Spirit Dungeons (legacy version)

Keridwen (demo)