Face-api.js, #js13k entries, and volume golf

Articles

'It inspired a generation': Tony Hawk on how the Pro Skater video games changed lives
Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater appeared on PlayStation 20 years ago this week – and transformed sports sims for ever. Hawk and the game’s developers assess the impact of the 100m-selling series.
Mat Ombler at The Guardian

Young developers on Starbound say Chucklefish exploited their free work
Former developers say they worked hundreds of hours for no pay.
Colin Campbell at Polygon

In the new game of Monopoly, women make more than men
Ms. Monopoly is meant to celebrate women's empowerment by giving women a head start in the game.
Leah Asmelash at CNN

Nintendo sues ROM site
Switch maker's anti-piracy legal efforts continue with copyright and trademark infringement suit against RomUniverse.
Brendan Sinclair at GamesIndustryBiz

Jobs

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Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like Risky Road using Phaser – step 2: let a landscape game be enjoyable in portrait mode by playing with zoom
In this kind of games, you need to have a wide view of the terrain to know which slopes you are going to approach. The fastest the car, the wider the terrain should be.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Live avatars (like animoji in the browser) with face-api.js
I explain how we added live avatars to our app to help teammates feel more present with one another on distributed teams.
Doug Safreno at Pragli

Competitions

All games submitted to the js13kGames 2019 competition

Resources

How well are PC games selling in 2019?

Demos

Volume golf

Pixi sprite bubbles

Games

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