— issue #279Skater, Danger Crew, and Classic Minecraft
Articles
The dangers of in-game data collection
Can your choices come back to haunt you?
Patrick Stafford at Polygon
Riot Games employees walk out over workplace harassment lawsuits
More than 150 workers at the developer’s Los Angeles HQ join protest – the largest such walkout in video game industry history.
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian
Magic: The Gathering is officially the world’s most complex game
A new proof with important implications for game theory shows that no algorithm can possibly determine the winner.
Nathan Rupert at MIT Technology Review
John Wick Hex is indie darling Bithell Games’ first licensed game
Bithell Games studio is working on its first licensed game — John Wick Hex, what publisher Good Shepherd Entertainment and Lionsgate term as an "action-oriented strategy game".
Jason Wilson at VentureBeat
Designing Baba is You's delightfully innovative rule-writing system
The soul of Baba Is You is its rule detection and implementation.
John Harris at Gamasutra
Jobs
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Tutorials
Pure Javascript class to handle Draw and Match games like Dungeon Raid
Ready to communicate with your favorite HTML5 framework, Phaser 3 example included.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
Competitions
Countdown to js13kGames 2019
Tools
Pop quiz hot shot. Your JavaScript app is on fire; what do you do? 🔥⏳💣
Answer: Open Honeybadger’s incident report in PagerDuty, check the backtrace, fix in GitHub, then attend a DevOps hero parade in your honor. 🎉🙇♂️🙌
Demos
Skater riding a bunch of HTML5 range sliders
Bubble Sorting Island Adventure
Games
Danger Crew, an HTML5 game launched on Steam
Classic Minecraft in the browser