2025/06/06 — issue #596

Dress-up game, Odyc.js, and Project-52

Articles

I quit my job to make a dress-up web game, and it blew up
Vortella’s Dress Up smashed any and all expectations of performance on Poki.
Kelsey Devortel at Poki

How Voodoo builds hits: four product lessons from a 2000-prototypes-a-year machine
Last year, Voodoo told us they were testing around a thousand prototypes annually. This year, that number has doubled.
Kate Halewood at Deconstructor of Fun

GOG lays out the business case for robust game preservation
Game preservation is now at the heart of GOG's business model with the GOG Preservation Program.
Bryant Francis at Game Developer

Epic Games reveals The State of Unreal for 2025
Epic Games unveiled the State of Unreal in a keynote speech by CEO Tim Sweeney at the Unreal Fest in Orlando, Florida.
Dean Takahashi at GamesBeat

Tutorials

Click When Red – learn JavaScript and CSS by building a reflex game in a single HTML page
There are games that require frameworks, engines, and entire build systems. And then there are games like this one, which you can create in a single HTML file, with just a bit of JavaScript, some basic CSS, no external files and zero dependencies.
Emanuele Feronato's blog