2026/09/25 — issue #664

10M gameplays, 3D Gaussian Splatting, and Robot Rivals

Articles

A browser arcade in plain TypeScript: 8 classic games, 35 kB, no framework
A retro browser arcade featuring eight classic games built with plain TypeScript and Canvas 2D, with zero runtime dependencies and a complete build weighing about 35 kB gzipped.
Minjia Hu at DevTo

10M gameplays in two months: how BMG: Ragdoll Car Race scaled on YouTube Playables with Playgama
The HTML5 game BMG: Ragdoll Car Race reached 10 million play sessions in two months on YouTube Playables. The story breaks down exactly how it got there and follows the journey of its solo developer at Crimson Games.
Kate Ilicheva at Playgama

How we took a PixiJS map from 33.9 s to 3.0 s on a slow phone
A detailed performance postmortem explaining how a PixiJS city map cut its mobile loading screen from almost 34 seconds to 3 seconds through asset optimization, deferred loading, streaming, and careful GPU memory management.
Denshin Team's blog

Dueling industry surveys show Japanese game devs are embracing AI, while North American ones are still skeptical
New surveys show a sharp contrast in generative AI adoption, with 85.8% of surveyed Japanese developers reporting AI use compared with 36% of respondents to the 2026 GDC survey.
Ted Litchfield at PC Gamer

Tutorials

Introduction to 3D Gaussian Splatting with Three.js
Learn how to capture a real-world object with a smartphone, export it as Gaussian Splatting data, clean it up, and display it directly in Three.js using its new WebGPU-powered 3DGS support.
Norihiro Narayama at ICS MEDIA

Events

This Monday: JetBrains GameDev Day 2026 with Meta, AWS, Hytale, and more
Dive into game production workflows, from ECS migrations and Unreal profiling to AI, CI, version control, and debugging. Free to watch online.

JSNation US 2026 - November 16 in New York and online