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Hosting Decentralized Jam entries

If you participated in Gamedev.js Jam‘s Decentralized category last year you already know that Itch.io limits the basic capabilities of such entries (which are embedded in an iframe) to a point that to be able to connect to a crypto wallet you have to host your game somewhere else. The…Read…

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Gamedev.js Jam 2022 start and theme announcement!

13th April 2022

Right now, on April 13th 2022 at 5 PM CEST the third yearly online competition, Gamedev.js Jam 2022, begins! You have exactly 13 days (up until April 26th) to create a Web game on a given theme (revealed at the bottom of this post) and submit it through Itch.io to…Read…

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Kontra.js v8

17th February 2022

The eight version of the popular microlibrary (very popular during the js13kGames competition), Kontra.js, was released a few days ago. The author, Steven Lambert, prepared many improvements and bugfixes. Many properties and functions have been renamed to better align the various APIs and support the new Input wrapper API. Also…Read…

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Open Mini Games – on the path to fix discoverability

21st October 2020

Tom Greenaway from Google created a GitHub repository called Open Mini Games (kudos to the acronym – OMG), where folks that are interested in pushing the discoverability of HTML5 games can join the discussion. The Open Mini Games (OMG) format is a proposal to define a set of combined minimum…Read…

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Defold awarded with the Grant for the Web

12th June 2020

Another news about the Defold game engine. After moving from King to its dedicated Foundation and publishing their source code on GitHub, Defold now acquired Grant for the Web support to explore Web Monetization. Web Monetization is an exciting new and non-intrusive way for game developers to monetize their creations…Read…

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Defold game engine goes open source

19th May 2020

Good news coming from King today as their Defold engine is now available on GitHub. Mobile games company King today announced that the Defold game engine is available as an open source project. As part of the open source process King has transferred Defold to a software foundation; the Defold…Read…

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GitHub Game Off 2019 has started

6th November 2019

Game Off is an annual month-long game jam (hackathon for building games). This year’s theme is LEAPS AND BOUNDS. You’re welcome to interpret the theme however you wish. Maybe the year 2020 will lead you to think about hindsight being 20/20, and that’ll inspire even more ideas around time travel,…Read…

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js13kGames 2019 winners announced

9th October 2019

The eighth edition of the annual js13kGames competition has ended, and the winners have been announced. You can check the ranking directly, read the official blog post, and also check the summary of top10 games on GitHub’s blog. This year’s edition had brand new validation bot and voting system, and…Read…

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Enclave Phaser Template now with Phaser 3

24th July 2019

After some time, Enclave Phaser Template was updated from Phaser 2 to 3. You can check it on GitHub where the source code is hosted.

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Alphabet Backs GitLab’s Quest to Surpass Microsoft’s GitHub

2nd October 2018

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.