A Swiss Super League match between Young Boys and FC Basel over the weekend was interrupted by protests against the growing influence of esports on Swiss football teams, with fans throwing tennis balls and a PS4 controller onto the pitch.
Build a HTML5 game like Magick using Phaser and Arcade physics
It’s a pity you can’t play Magick anymore because it was a fun game, but unfortunately it was probably one of the victims of 32 bits apocalypse. It was a retro platformer featuring a mage called Oz which walks and jumps by himself, but you can summon a crate, but…
Performance-Tuning a WebVR Game
For the past couple of weeks, I have been working on a VR version of one of my favorite puzzle games, the Nonogram, also known as Picross or Griddlers. These are puzzles where you must figure out which cells in a grid are colored in by using column and row…
Alphabet Backs GitLab’s Quest to Surpass Microsoft’s GitHub
GitLab Inc., a platform for sharing and collaborating on code, said it raised $100 million to expand its suite of tools as it fights for market share with with Microsoft Corp.’s GitHub.
Mozilla’s Firefox Reality web browser is now available
Firefox Reality is a browser built entirely for virtual reality. While you may have read about desktop Firefox or Chrome adding WebVR support, Firefox Reality is a web browser that you actually use entirely inside a VR headset. You can visit URLs, search things and otherwise browse the 2D and…
Understanding frame based vs time based games
Normally, when you build a game, there is a routine which is called at each frame which updates the content to display. Think about a platformer, with characters moving at each frame. Those characters have a speed, and they move towards a direction by a certain amount of pixels every…
Cocoon 3.0.0 is out
We have addressed a couple of things that were bugging most of you lately: the Google PlayStore API Level requirements and the issues with the GDPR in some Cocoon plugins.
How Donut County survived the Clone Wars
What happens when another game steals your pitch? Donut County developer Ben Esposito faced this question back in June, when a friend showed him a familiar-looking mobile game: ‘Hole.io’. The problem was, Donut County was still months from release, while this clone had seemingly replicated the central mechanic – in…
Lampix Augmented Reality games platform
The next level of tabletop gaming is here. Lampix enables board games, tactical RPGs, card games and more to be given an enhanced level of mixed reality gaming.
Phaser 101 – Introduction to Game Development
Get acquainted with the basics of game development in Phaser 3. This course is a sample of lessons from the HTML 5 Game Development Mini-Degree.
