NiftyCrates, Tixy, and Slimoban 2

Articles

A collection of four indie titles inspired by classic games
Classic games have inspired many different spin-offs in all manner of titles, so we’ve collected a handful of games inspired by Chess, Solitaire, Minesweeper and Pinball.
Jupiter Hadley at IndieGames+

Take-Two in talks to buy Codemasters
Racing publisher says it has discussed a deal that would value it at nearly $1 billion.
Brendan Sinclair at GamesIndustryBiz

Immortals Gaming Club raises $26 million and sells its Call of Duty League team to 100 Thieves
The company raised $26 million in funding from investors including Meg Whitman to expand its core esports brands and its game matchmaking platform.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat

In Japan, Sega just asked 650 employees to retire voluntarily
With covid-19 impacting business, Sega is expecting what it calls “an extraordinary loss” during the current financial year.
Brian Ashcraft at Kotaku

Jobs

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Tutorials

Pixelfield HTML5 prototype updated – adding wraparound effect
A gameplay variation on the single-screen in which space is finite but unbounded; objects leaving one side of the screen immediately reappear on the opposite side.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Learn JavaScript through a game
We have been thinking of making a project that would include the basics of Vanilla JS in a fun and unique way, and what better way than to make the classic Snake Game.
Souparno Paul at DevTo

Events

HTML5 Game Developer Day on November 17th

Tools

NiftyCrates - decentralized ERC-721 lootboxes

Phaser Editor 2D v3.8.0 released - welcome tilemaps

Resources

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Tixy - creative code golfing

Demos

Hole

Windows - colorized depth

Games

Slimoban 2