Issue #378: RG3D, raging sea, and Merge Round Racers

Issue #378 - April 2nd 2021

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:

The benefits and risks of using Patreon to crowdfund games
Crowdfunding has become a common practice for independent developers and both big and small studios.
Diego Arguello at Gamasutra

Rare Super Mario Bros. cartridge sells for $660K, highest price ever for a video game
Sealed NES cartridge outsells Nintendo Play Station prototype.
Michael McWhertor at Polygon

Mobile games revenue growth remains higher than pre-pandemic levels
But downloads have fallen lower than they were before March 2020, Sensor Tower reports.
Marie Dealessandri at GamesIndustryBiz

How XCOM's Julian Gollop improved on the board games he loved as a kid
"I saw computer games as a way of liberating players from the tedium."
Jeremy Peel at PC Gamer
 

Jobs:

Find a job through Hired
Create a profile on Hired to connect with hiring managers at growing startups and Fortune 500 companies. It's free for job-seekers!
 

Tutorials:

The basics of an HTML5 word game – Phaser version
I am always been interested in word games.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Tools:

Fast, Reliable Feature Management for the Modern Enterprise
LaunchDarkly is a feature management platform that empowers teams to safely deliver & control software through feature flags. By separating code deployments from feature releases, we enable you to deploy faster, reduce risk, and iterate continuously.

RG3D - 3D game engine written in Rust
 

Demos:

The raging sea

Circles
 

Videos:

Impossible Trackmania shortcut finally done after 13 years
 

Games:

Merge Round Racers

Atari classic games