Newsletter โ Issue 004
๐ฅ Headlines
๐ I am launching WebGamer.io, a portal of curated next-gen web games. It showcases some of the awesome JavaScript games listed on Games & Demos but with a more consumer-friendly presentation.
๐ The Hendrik Mans Interview is out! It is my pleasure to have the creator of Miniplex and the Composer Suite as a first interviewee. Read about his open source work and thoughts on web game development!
MeshTransmissionMaterial
for Drei by 0xca0a and
N8 is an improved Three.js
MeshPhysicalMaterial with
added features. It can be used to create amazing
effects. There is a vanilla Three.js
version.
PlayCanvas published their review of
2022, showcasing the work accomplished by
their team and community. On the roadmap for 2023: Editor GLB imports, Scripts 3.0, shader graphs,
and Editor Plugins.
It is Genuary, so keep an eye on #genuary hashtags! There is a different prompt every day. The Ludum Dare game jam also took place using the #LDJAM hashtag with the theme โHarvestโ.
Bruno Simon added
certificates to Three.js
Journey and is making stylized low-poly
game-assets.
โฌ๏ธ Updates
- Drei v9.51 โ New
<MeshTransmissionMaterial>,
as seen above.
Phaser 3.60 Beta
17 (2022-12-10) โ Nine
Slice Game Object, Sprite FX, Compressed Textures, Improved Mobile Performance and WebGL Pipeline
Changes.- PlayCanvas
v1.59.0 (2022-12-13) โ Includes
improved WebGPU support.
Babylon.js v5.41.0
โ๏ธ Content
- ๐ฌ React Three Fiber Christmas
Experience by Wawa
Sensei.
- ๐ฌ 6 Months of Learning JavaScript Game
Dev by Suboptimal
Engineer.
- โ๏ธ How I Got a Model From 26MB Down to
560KB by Jacob
Galito.
- โ๏ธ Simplifying React Three Fiber with
ECS
(Miniplex) by DOUGES.
โจ Games & Demos
- ๐ฎ Mirror by Solar
Games. Find the differences between two scenes! It will give you
childhood flashbacks.
- ๐ฎ
Hordes by dek. A
full-blown MMORPG, up and running since 2016. For Theโฆ Hordes! - ๐ฎ PolyTrack by
Kodub. A tiny TrackMania in the browser (only 4 levels available).
Uses Ammo.js.
- โจ Composer Suite Space Scene by Hendrik
Mans. A showcase of his Composer
Suite.
See more on the โจ Games & Demos page or ๐ฎ WebGamer.io.
๐ฃ Last but not least, our second Web Game Dev Discord video meetup will take place this Thursday, January 12th, at 9am Pacific Time / 12pm Eastern Time / 6pm Central European Time. See you there! ๐
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