2024/01/12 — issue #523

Godot games from Game Off, and Monster Valle vs Monster Tamer

Articles

Ten great Godot games + source code from Game Off 2023
The 11th annual GitHub Game Off – challenging developers to build a game from scratch in one month – just wrapped up with over 600 submissions – all rated and reviewed by the developers themselves.
Lee Reilly at DevTo

Unity Software laying off 25 percent of staff amid 'company reset'
Huge shakeup mirrors layoffs across the games industry.
Kat Bailey at IGN

My 2-year indie postmortem
2 indie years: what went right, what went wrong, and lessons learned.
Matt Hackett at Valadria

Nintendo’s design guru Shigeru Miyamoto: ‘I wanted to make something weird’
Few people have influenced global pop culture as much as the creator of Mario and Zelda, widely considered the father of modern gaming. But when you have changed the world, what comes next?
Keza MacDonald at The Guardian

Tutorials

Using TypeScript to build HTML5 games with Phaser, Webpack and Visual Studio Code
Now it’s time to take a new step forward: so far we have been working with JavaScript, but now we will abandon it in favor of TypeScript.
Emanuele Feronato's blog