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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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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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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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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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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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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…
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Thomas Rinsma decided to abuse PDF field objects to render monochrome grid, and combine it with keystroke-entry in a text field to receive inputs – that’s how playable Tetris in a PDF file was born. You can read the blog post about the implementation details from the author himself –…Read…
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Athena Crisis, a modern retro turn-based strategy game that was built with Web technologies by Christoph Nakazawa and is available in an Early Access on Steam, goes Open Source. Today we’re open-sourcing the code of Athena Crisis under the MIT License, and together with Polar we’re funding $10,000 worth of…Read…
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The overall winners of Gamedev.js Jam 2024 were announced yesterday, and now we’re publishing the rankings of all four Challenges – if you participated in any of them, check out your standings below. Open Source Challenge by GitHub Build it with Phaser Challenge by Phaser Studio NPC Challenge by OP…Read…
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The Gamedev.js Jam 2024, fifth yearly edition of an online competition for web game developers, starts NOW! You have exactly thirteen days (between April 13th and 26th) to build an entry (solo or in a team) on a given theme (announced just below) and submit it through Itch to win…Read…
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