Excalibur 0.32, Phaser 4.0 RC6, and Allo's Arena

Articles

Doom is the ultimate holiday game
Rip and tear around the Christmas tree.
Nathan Grayson at Kotaku

After 40 years of adventure games, Ron Gilbert pivots to outrunning Death
Interview: Storied designer talks lost RPG, a 3D Monkey Island, “Eat the Rich” philosophy.
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica

Where did all the money go? The state of games investment
Answers to the above question and more from the GamesIndustryBiz Investment Panel at MCM Comic Con.
Lewis Packwood at GamesIndustryBiz

Digiphile is a new charitable discovery platform from a group of Humble Bundle veterans
The platform is being pitched as an intentionally curated storefront 'driven by people, not algorithms'.
Chris Kerr at Game Developer

Tutorials

JavaScript Input Buffering: a simple project to show delayed keyboard events
In this tutorial, we’ll create a clean WASD input visualizer that shows your keyboard actions twice: once in real time, and once with a one second delay.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Tools

Excalibur v0.32.0 released

Phaser 4.0 RC6 available

Demos

Interactive snowfall

Wavy triangles

Dweet of the week: snowy pines

Games

Allo's Arena

CPR: Christmas Present Rush