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Pico-PubSub – the smallest PubSub library

Hassan Shaikley created Pico-PubSub, the smallest PubSub library possible. With zero dependencies and only 149 bytes of code it beats the competition, both Tiny-PubSub and Nano-PubSub. PubSub is a pattern I really like, but I have to be careful when pulling in dependencies that are too big. In the context…Read…

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Nitrode – AI-assisted platform using Godot

26th March 2025

With Godot under the hood, Nitrode is an AI-assisted game development platform that empowers both aspiring developers and seasoned gamers to effortlessly create, launch, and play games. By leveraging artificial intelligence, Nitrode streamlines the complexities of game development, allowing creators to focus on their vision without being bogged down by…Read…

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Fyrox – Rust based game engine

24th March 2025

A modern, open-source game engine written in Rust, Fyrox is designed for 2D and 3D game development. A feature-rich, production-ready, general purpose 2D/3D game engine written in Rust with a scene editor. Formerly known as rg3d. It focuses on ease of use, performance, and safety, leveraging Rust’s memory safety features…Read…

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The King’s Crowns – making of a WebXR game in 13 kilobytes

18th March 2025

Samuel van Egmond published a lenghty blog post explaining in detail how he managed to create such a wonderful WebXR game using the A-Frame library and squeezing his own source code into a 13 kilobyte zip package for the js13kGames 2024 competition. Everything in the game is procedurally generated at runtime,…Read…

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Little Ski – LittleJS game tutorial

12th March 2025

Eoin McGrath, long time participant of both js13kGames competition and Gamedev.js Jam, released his LittleJS tutorial where you can learn how to build an example game, Little Ski. Have you ever wanted to make a game but didn’t know where to start? Well, today is your lucky day. Because, we’re…Read…

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Flow made in Blender

11th March 2025

The recent Oscar winner in the animated film category, Flow, was created with free and open source software, Blender. During the 97th Academy Awards the animated story of a cat told without any words at all and featuring only animals was awarded with an Oscar. Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis created…Read…

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SWGPU – simple WebGPU game engine

7th March 2025

An open source web game engine, SWGPU, focuses on simplicity all while exploring the benefits of using WebGPU when building web games. From the start, we chose to embrace the future with pure WebGPU 3D rendering pipeline as the name suggests. Written in TypeScript and powered by the latest cutting-edge…Read…

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A Prison for Dreams – pixelart metroidvania platformer

28th February 2025

Brand new game from Jani Nykänen, A Prison for Dreams, is a 2D pixelart metroidvania platformer adventure where you play as an anonymous hero who… wakes up in a graveyard. You are given a mission to find the Great Dreamer, who needs your help once again. Explore a decently sized…Read…

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Colyseus 0.16 released

26th February 2025

The new 0.16 version of the open source Node.js multiplayer framework, Colyseus, is introducing StateView, experimental support for WebTransport, and more. This version brings a new iteration of the @colyseus/schema library, introducing the StateView API, deprecating @filter(), and providing quality of life improvements to the framework. Especially the experimental WebTransport…Read…

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RetroSki – skill-based 2D retro skiing game

12th February 2025

Explore randomly generated alpine tracks in RetroSki – a fast-paced, retro-style 2D skiing game created by Mathieu Hermann. RetroSki started in January 2024 when I was looking for a game to play with my girlfriend. I quickly realized that finding a game where we could compete fairly on equal terms…Read…