Newsletter – Issue 006

🔥 Headlines

🎙 The interview with Dek, creator of JavaScript MMORPG Hordes, is out! A truly inspiring journey. 💯

Good news for PlayCanvas users! PlayCanvas now supports importing GLB / gLTF files into the Editor, including 100% of ratified glTF extensions. It is also possible to directly edit the imported models’ materials and hook up their animations with PlayCanvas’ animation system. In other news, Steven Yau created a user script to load Editor Plugin scripts. It is not an official PlayCanvas feature at the moment.

Not a single JavaScript game won the GitHub Game Off 2022… But a lot of the winning games are playable online via WebAssembly. You might want to take your chance with the Global Game Jam at your local jam site.

⬆️ Updates

• R3F v8.10.0 – Adds Canvas shadow prop shortcuts ('basic', 'percentage', 'soft', 'variance').
• Drei v9.54 – yomotsu’s camera-controls library is now available via <CameraControls>. It is similar to OrbitControls with added features like smooth animations, camera collisions, or zoom and shake effects.
• Babylon.js v5.43.0

✍️ Content

• 🎬 🎓 Bloom is More Complicated Than You Think by SimonDev.
• 🎬 🎓 10 Rendering Patterns for Web Apps by Fireship.
• ✍️ Creating Variations in Instances Using Node Materials by Patrick Ryan.
• ✍️ RTS Devlog #9: Extreme Pathfinding by Ashley Gullen.
• ✍️ 🎓 Cel/Toon Shading (demo) by Daniel Velasquez.

✨ Games & Demos

• 🎮 Kingdom of Pixels by QTX. A 2D platformer MOBA with great pixel art, made with PixiJS.
• 🎮 Flyff Universe by Gala. Web (Wasm) sequel of Flyff, a Korean MMORPG from 2004. Launched mid-2022.
• 🎮 Little Aliens by TechhDan. A Super Mario / Zelda-style alien game made with Phaser.
• ✨ Piano Portal by docEdub. A very cool AR demo made with Babylon.js.

See more on the ✨ Games & Demos page or 🎮 WebGamer.io.

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