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Articles

Demoscene accepted as UNESCO cultural heritage in Germany
Big push for other national Demoscene applications and the acceptance for an understanding of digital cultures in general.
Demoscene – The Art of Coding

Google Play drops commissions to 15% from 30%, following Apple’s move last year
Google will lower its Play commissions globally for developers that sell in-app digital goods and services on its marquee store.
Manish Singh at TechCrunch

Microsoft in talks with Discord over $10 billion-plus acquisition
Discord was recently valued at $7 billion.
Sam Byford at The Verge

Ghost of Tsushima to receive film adaptation
John Wick director attached to project; PlayStation action adventure has now topped 6.5 million copies sold.
Jeffrey Rousseau at GamesIndustryBiz

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Tutorials

Build a HTML5 game like the great ZX Spectrum game Yanga using Phaser (step 1)
I am showing you how to draw a Yanga level, starting from a Tiled map array filled with objects.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Tools

📈Timescale Analytics Project: Time-Series Analytics for PostgreSQL
Timescale Analytics aims to combine all the capabilities SQL needs to perform time-series analytics into a single PG extension, built with Rust – and we want (and need) your help. See current proposals, ways to contribute, plus how to join us & shape the project 💪

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Resources

Gamedev.js Survey 2021 report - current state of the HTML5 game development

Demos

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Animated periodic table

Micro-economics

Games

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