Project Genie, planet gravity platform, and Three-Quake

Articles

A bunch of big video game company stocks just tanked for a very dumb reason
Google's reveal of its new AI game world making tool, Project Genie, has seemingly spooked some investors.
Zack Zwiezen at Kotaku

Playgama launches advertising solution for web gaming monetisation
The new product marks Playgama’s expansion deeper into monetisation and gaming-focused ad tech.
Isa Muhammad at PocketGamerBiz

How to get Doom running on a pair of earbuds
No display? No problem for the UART-to-web-server “Doombuds” project.
Kyle Orland at Ars Technica

After a server glitch, Final Fantasy 11 is dispatching Game Masters to manually assassinate bugged monsters just so the game knows they're really dead
'God personally stepping in to correct the world itself'. Sometimes there's only one way to be sure.
Lincoln Carpenter at PC Gamer

Tutorials

HTML5 prototype of a planet gravity platform using Phaser 4 and Arcade physics, written in TypeScript
What I wanted to build with this experiment was a very specific kind of movement: a character walking on a floating platform where gravity is not fixed, but instead rotates when the character reaches an edge.
Emanuele Feronato's blog

Events

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Tools

PixiJS version 8.15 released

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Demos

Deep dive

Alien portal

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Games

Three-Quake

Neon Slopes