2025/09/19 — issue #611

Picket Right font, living color, and first game with Beam

Articles

Meet the 11-year-old whose code was adopted by a gaming giant
Damir Buldakov is an 11-year-old who developed a Scratch SDK plugin for Playgama that was officially adopted by the gaming giant.
David Cassel at The New Stack

Over three decades later, Nintendo remembers the Virtual Boy exists
A $100 replica Switch dock or $25 cardboard sleeve is needed to play the 3D re-releases.
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica

Devs are more worried than ever that generative AI will lower the quality of games
Developers who were on the fence about the impact of generative AI on game quality are growing pessimistic.
Bryant Francis at Game Developer

What is a AAA game? A clever system ends the debate
Ever wonder what the difference between AA and AAA really is?
Oli Welsh at Polygon

The industry can’t afford to overlook low-spec PCs
The ubiquitous PC can and should be the affordable entry point for many consumers – but targeting only high-end hardware risks losing that advantage.
Rob Fahey at GamesIndustryBiz

Tutorials

How to reduce empty Unity WebGL build size from 10MB to 2MB
Unity is a powerful and versatile game engine and with the right setup, it can produce highly optimized WebGL builds.
Joyst1ck at Playgama