Rewriting wipEout, OGL, and Tanks of the Galaxy

Articles

Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.
Dominic Szablewski at Phoboslab

Post Malone has bought Magic’s $2M One Ring card
The one-of-a-kind card was unearthed in June.
Oli Welsh at Polygon

Twitch star Kai Cenat breaks silence on PS5 giveaway that led to riot
The second biggest name on the Amazon-owned streaming platform said the violence that broke out was never his intention.
Ethan Gach at Kotaku

Baldur’s Gate 3 early impressions: you’ll spend whole weeks in here and love it
Another remarkable feat of a streamlined tabletop experience by Larian Studios.
Kevin Purdy at Ars Technica

Researchers find China's game time limits ineffective in reducing excessive play
"No evidence" that restrictions on minors had any impact in cutting down on heavy gaming.
Brendan Sinclair at GamesIndustryBiz

Tutorials

Add a virtual joystick to your HTML5 games in a matter of minutes with nippleJS
Example powered by Phaser and Arcade physics.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Events

js13kGames 2023 Kick-off Meetup on August 13th

Tools

OGL - minimal WebGL library

js13k-starter-2023 - template for the js13kGames competition

Demos

Ethereal spheres

Shady plant

Reaction diffusion

Videos

Athena Crisis map and campaign editor demo

Games

Tanks of the Galaxy