Issue #413: JS-ByteBase, Aliendscapes, and Sink It

Issue #413 - December 3rd 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:

12 principles for game animation
Game animation has to be both artistically interesting and functional within the constraints of games.
Christopher Totten at Game Developer

EA plans Battlefield ‘universe’ following awful Battlefield 2042 launch
Everything these days needs to be part of something greater, and EA sees storytelling potential in the Battlefield franchise.
Ian Walker at Kotaku

Blockchain is only a game changer if players are stakeholders
Blockchain’s potential to decentralize virtually any organization and establish uniqueness and ownership of digital content makes it possible for individuals to interact in a trusted manner without the involvement of third parties.
Nicolas Pouard at GamesBeat

Animal Crossing players are recreating Breath of the Wild’s beautiful regions
Players reproduce its world one location at a time.
Ana Diaz at Polygon

Why Jagex is helping a RuneScape player make an idle game based on its flagship RPG
MMO developer's Chris Pfeiffer and Melvor Idle creator Brendan Malcolm discuss Jagex's latest publishing partnership.
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz
 

Tutorials:

How do they make browser games nowadays? Part 3
This time we’ll add more interactivity. Realtime statistics and collision detection, to be specific.
Alexander Saltykov at Medium

TypeScript class with no dependencies to handle Sokoban games in less than 10 lines of code
HTML5 example powered by Phaser.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Competitions:

JS-ByteBase - a 2k JavaScript coding challenge
 

Tools:

Aliendscapes - alien planet generator
 

Demos:

Sightseeing tour of the Mandelbrot set

500 baubles
 

Videos:

GDevelop intro tutorial: event system
 

Games:

Sink It