— issue #385TensorFlow, Phaser 4, and Nomadic Tribe
Articles
Netflix looking to hire video game executive
The company’s long-term plans for an incursion into gaming aren’t set in stone, though the report notes that any Netflix-developed games reportedly won’t feature ads.
Ari Notis at Kotaku
Roblox fans are buying digital Gucci bags for thousands of dollars
That’s the price of fashion, baby.
Ana Diaz at Polygon
Apple spent $1m on Fortnite marketing, earned "over $100m" in commission
iPhone maker's games boss Michael Schmid also shares how Apple defines games and entertainment.
James Batchelor at GamesIndustryBiz
Snapchat games have reached more than 200 million people
About 30 million Snapchat users play Snap Games every month.
Dean Takahashi at VentureBeat
Tutorials
Next-generation pose detection with MoveNet and TensorFlow.js
MoveNet is an ultra fast and accurate model that detects 17 keypoints of a body.
Ronny Votel and Na Li at TensorFlow blog
First Phaser 4 version released, let’s have a look at it by building a HTML5 Sokoban game
The good news is Phaser 4 has been released in a sort of beta version. The bad news is Phaser 4 is not ready for production at the moment.
Emanuele Feronato's blog
Tools
KaBoom.js - a JavaScript library that helps you make games fast and fun
Phaser 3 and 4 Dev Log - April 2021
Resources
Rust: Are we game yet?
Demos
Nomadic Tribe
Subdivided
Videos
How lucky is too lucky? The Minecraft speedrunning Dream controversy explained
Games
Mirrorisk