Gamedev.js Weekly #205

Articles

Keep things clear: don't confuse your players
For every game, from simple to complex, it's important that the player knows how to play.
Darran Jamieson at Tuts+ Game Development

StarCraft pro wins with his foot, naps mid-match
Lim “Larva” Hong Gyu proved last night that he can win a StarCraft match with his foot.
Maddy Myers at Kotaku Compete

Pokemon GO generates $16 million in tourism revenue for Japan's Tottori Prefecture in three days
Over 89,000 people arrived during the event, held on November 24th-26th 2017, which is more than double the previous record number of visitors to the area.
Ric Cowley at Pocket Gamer

Pain, difficulty, and getting over it
Whereas modern games have mostly filed off all the rough edges of the early NES-era, each Bennett Foddy game is a shrine to one of those rough edges, carefully chosen, plucked off, and sharpened to a gleaming point.
Lars Doucet at Gamasutra

The 500 best games of all time: 100-1
We wrap up our votes of the very best in the game industry.
Polygon Staff

Tutorials

Tipsy Tower HTML5 prototype made with Phaser and Box2D
There’s an awesome Box2D premium plugin which allows you to add all features of the most famous rigid bodies 2D phyiscs engine in the world. See also step 2: camera zoom.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Camera logic in a 2D platformer
Getting camera right in a classic 2D Platformer is not as easy as it might seem at first.
Jochen Heizmann at Gamasutra

Tools

Panda 2 released

Phaser Boilerplate

Demos

3D printing

Etch a Sketch

Games

Cyber Tank

Rogue Fable II