2021/01/29 — issue #369

Global Game Jam, Math Maze, and Sokyokuban

Articles

How India's shifting political climate is influencing local game development
Despite growing religious tensions in the country, Indian game developers are still free to create the games they want - but where is the line in the sand is drawn?
Khee Hoon Chan at GamesIndustryBiz

Hacking your way to victory: the joy of cheating in open-world games
Coming up with sneaky routes to glory has long been a guilty pleasure in video games that feature flexible play systems.
Keith Stuart at The Guardian

Bloomberg report reveals major dysfunction at Amazon Game Studios
Amazon Game Studios, backed by one of the planet’s biggest companies, can’t seem to make a successful video game.
Ari Notis at Kotaku

How EVE Online commandos pulled off a suicide mission to save 170 elite pilots
After a server crash trapped hundreds of its biggest ships, PAPI Coalition staged a costly but vital jailbreak to get them back.
Steven Messner at PC Gamer

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Drawing 2D metaballs with WebGL2
An in-depth tutorial on how to code 2D visuals using WebGL2.
Georgi Nikolov at Codrops

Mix and merge more sprites into one single game object in your HTML5 games thanks to Phaser RenderTexture game object
A Render Texture is a special texture that allows any number of game objects to be drawn to it. You can take many complex objects and draw them all to this one texture.
Emanuele Feronato's blog