Issue #429: Emoji Art, glowing liquid, and The Mine

Issue #429 - March 25th 2022

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:

New Witcher saga announced. CD Projekt RED begins development on Unreal Engine 5 as part of a strategic partnership with Epic Games
Today’s announcement marks the first official confirmation of a new game in The Witcher series since the release of CD Projekt RED’s previous single-player, AAA RPG in the franchise — The Witcher 3.
CD Projekt RED news

Finding gameplay depth in typing games
Can a game where all you have to do is type words be a real game?
David Bailly at Game Developer

Creators of Bloodborne PS1 demake announces Bloodborne Kart
Once an April Fools’ joke, the racing parody game is now a real project.
Sisi Jiang at Kotaku

Netflix continues games push with Boss Fight Entertainment acquisition
It's the streaming giant's third studio acquisition in six months.
Marie Dealessandri at GamesIndustryBiz
 

Tutorials:

Code Tetris in 200 lines of code using React
Writing Tetris is exciting, as it forces you to understand many aspects of a programming language / framework in a very small application.
Niall Crosby at AG Grid

Build a HTML5 game like Wordle using Phaser and TypeScript – step 4
Using Bootstrap and DOM elements to create a menu and select game modes and pick the word of the day.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
 

Tools:

Emoji Art - create emoji artworks
 

Resources:

Sema - Looking for recommendations of best practices
Sema is building a free code review tool. It includes a best practice library to make code reviews more complete. We are looking for suggestions on your favorite best practice guides to include - JS, JS frameworks, or other topics. If you have recommendations, will you share them at mvi@semasoftware.com

Demos:

Unity's Enemies

3D glowing liquid in bottle

Burst
 

Games:

The Mine - a no JS adventure game