Minesweeper, Bali Sea Cable, and Blender 2.8

Articles

No Man’s Sky will get its next major expansion on August 14th
Including VR and an expanded online experience.
Jon Porter at The Verge

Trump wanted gamers to support him, now he’s blaming them for gun massacres
With increasing numbers of people bleeding to death in US streets, the president has to find someone – something – anything! – to blame.
Van Badham at The Guardian

Take-Two sends investigators to YouTuber’s house to crack down on Borderlands 3 leaks
After two weeks of no uploads, a notable Borderlands personality on YouTube returned to the platform yesterday with a video explaining his absence.
Ian Walker at Kotaku

The 18-month fence hop, the six-day chair, and why video games are so hard to make
We look at the effort behind the small details in games.
Blake Hester at Polygon

Hiber raises $800,000 for user-generated browser game platform
The company’s goal is to expand game creation and help games reach wider audiences.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat

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Tutorials

Dash N Blast HTML5 prototype updated: added obstacles and collision detection without physics engines
Obviously an endless runner with no obstacles or risky situations is quite boring, so we added deadly arcs rotating around the targets.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

How to build Minesweeper with JavaScript
For this week’s post I decided to ramp up the complexity a bit. You guys are going to learn how to build minesweeper with JavaScript.
Mitchum's blog

Competitions

js13kGames 2019 starts in 4 days

Web Monetization - new js13k category this year

Demos

Bali Sea Cable

Fishing game

Videos

Why the new Blender 2.8 is a big deal

Tina Nawrocki - Cuphead for the love of 2D animation

Games

Send in the Clones