LittleJS Game Jam 2025 results, building Mario, and Mi-Ni-Mi 2

Articles

Return to the year 2000 with classic multiplayer DOS games in your browser
There are fan-made browser versions of Red Alert, Unreal Tournament, and more.
Samuel Axon at Ars Technica

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called Half Life 2
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin.
Tom Forsyth at Mastodon

Guitar Hero at 20 – how a plastic axe bridged the gap between rock generations
Guitar Hero’s controllers let anyone become a star in their own living room – and made the bands featured in the game household names again.
Christopher Lord at The Guardian

AI assets are an unconscionable risk for premium-priced games
Discussions over where "the line" lies for using AI assets often ignore a universal truth of consumer behaviour – we pay a premium for authenticity and realness, and brands ignore that at their peril.
Rob Fahey at GamesIndustryBiz

Tutorials

Fullscreen API (iOS): how to hide tabs in Safari
Hide Mobile Safari tabs on iPhone to emulate fullscreen for web apps and games. A lightweight workaround using Visual Viewport instead of the standard Fullscreen API.
Mikhail Novikov at Playgama on GitHub

Competitions

LittleJS Game Jam 2025 results

Tools

Defold v1.11.2 released

Pixi.js v8.14.3 released

Demos

3D CSS chess board

Smooth circles

Dweet of the week: ebbinghaus illusion

Videos

Ania Kubów: learn JavaScript by building Mario

Dallas Software Developers: Jeremy Morgan building retro 2D games

Games

Mi-Ni-Mi 2