Newsletter โ Issue 001
Welcome to the first issue of the Web Game Dev Newsletter!
๐ฅ Headlines
Weโve got 2 new work-in-progress projects to bring scene changes back to React Three
Fiber source code: React Three Editor by
Nikhil Saraf, and a proof of
concept by DOUGES
which uses Deno and ts-morph.
Great news for WebXR developers: Meta Quest browser now supports immersive
navigation, which means you can now change
same-origin URL routes within a WebXR session (yep, that was surprisingly not possible before).
This is a step forward for metaverse experiences, and also opens up interesting ways to build XR
games around traditional URL routes (like seamlessly going from /my-house to /worldmap or
/arena). It is also now possible to send a link from desktop or
mobile to Quest headsets, to not have to
type URLs.
โฌ๏ธ Updates
Three.js 147 โ Everybody is in
love with the pixel postprocessing
effect
(changelog, migration
guide).
โ๏ธ Content
- ๐ฌ ๐ How Big Budget AAA Games Render Clouds by SimonDev. You will never look at clouds the same.
- ๐ฌ ๐ Continuity of Splines by Freya Holmรฉr. A beautiful in-depth explanation of splines (such as Bรฉzier curves).
- ๐ฌ
100+ JavaScript Concepts you Need to Know by Fireship. A quick overview of all things JavaScript. - โ๏ธ The magical world of
Particles
with React Three Fiber and Shaders by Maxime Heckel. If you
like this article, check out his previous one, The Study of
Shaders.
โจ Games & Demos
- ๐ฎ Narrow One by Pelican
Party. A capture-the-flag archery multiplayer game.
- ๐ฎ Slow Roads by anslo.
Buckle your seatbelt and cruise around an infinite procgen landscape.
- ๐ฎ (WIP) WoW-based card
game by Brian
Breiholz. It uses
Miniplex and the Needle Engine.
- โจ
Space Pod by
jin for the M3 metaverse community
(live demo). - โจ (WIP) Hello Worlds
by Kenneth Pirman, who is building gigantic worlds so you
donโt have to.
- โจ (WIP)
RaycastVehicle for
Rapier by Isaac Mason, for all your car
physics needs.
See more on the โจ Games & Demos page or ๐ฎ WebGamer.io.
๐ฌ From our Discord
We had the first Web Game Dev video meetup on December 10th 2022! Here is a recap:
- โข I talked about WebGameDev.com and how I am dedicating 2023 to keep learning and writing about gamedev full-time to help other folks who are transitioning from web development.
- โข anxpara presented Wayfinder, an animation tool that augments any CSS animation engine, providing a waypoint-centric approach to moving elements around pages.
- โข Nathan Pointer presented his gorgeous three-landscape demo and talked about technical challenges.
- โข Hamza Kubba showed his futuristic city-spaceship-battle game and some of the tricks heโs used, like fake projectile lighting, and an AI thatโs based on player line of sight.
- โข Brian Breiholz gave us a big slap in the face with his WoW-influenced card game.
- โข Hendrik Mans presented Bigby, a Three.js game framework based on plugins, and how it relates to Miniplex.
- โข N8 took us for a tour of his procgen infinite office, and talked about performance optimization and effects.
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