MegaBots, WaveFunctionCollapse, and ChessVision

Articles

French court says Valve must allow Steam users to resell games
Back in 2015, Valve got sued by a French consumer organization called UFC-Que Choisir. Four years later, a French court has ruled in UFC-Que Choisir’s favor.
Nathan Grayson at Kotaku

Oculus Quest’s secret trick: it can double as a wired PC VR headset
Unlocked via November update; followed by Quest hand tracking in "early 2020".
Sam Machkovech at Ars Technica

MegaBots is now bankrupt and selling their giant battle robot online
Bidders on eBay have the chance to buy the bot, with sales starting at $1.
Fabienne Lang at Interesting Engineering

To make a cool game, you first have to play other cool games
“To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.”
Piotr Migdał at Medium

The former Witcher developers making a mobile game about travel and humanity
Different Tales explains how its debut title Wanderlust: Travel Stories falls "halfway between literature and gaming".
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz

Jobs

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Tutorials

Web class: develop a turn-based multiplayer game
We are going to be creating a 2D top-down turn-based strategy game using Unity.
Lindsay Schardon at GameDev Academy

HTML5 wheel of fortune powered by Phaser 3 updated to Phaser 3.19 featuring texts and emojis
The HTML5 wheel of fortune prototype is one of my most successful tutorial series.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Crowdfunding

ANOVA: A classic Point-and-Click Adventure Game by MontiGames - The first fully independent game by Spanish developer MontiGames is now live! Join their Patreon campaign to help them create more award-winning episodes! You can also follow their development at their new website.

Tools

Clubhouse: snappy, modern project management tool for developers
"Clubhouse is like a fast and delightful version of Jira, a more purposeful version of Trello," says a current user. Free for up to 10 users.

WaveFunctionCollapse - bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example with the help of ideas from quantum mechanics

Resources

ChessVision.ai - analyze chess position from any website, image or video

Demos

Earthchan

Kali fractal bwa

Games

Race City