Newsletter – Issue 006

🔥 Headlines

🎙 The interview with Dek, creator of JavaScript MMORPG Hordes (opens in a new tab), is out! A truly inspiring journey. 💯

Good news for PlayCanvas (opens in a new tab) users! PlayCanvas now supports importing GLB / gLTF files into the Editor (opens in a new tab), including 100% of ratified glTF extensions (opens in a new tab). 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 (opens in a new tab) created a user script to load Editor Plugin scripts (opens in a new tab). It is not an official PlayCanvas feature at the moment.

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

⬆️ Updates

• R3F v8.10.0 (opens in a new tab) – Adds Canvas shadow prop shortcuts (opens in a new tab) ('basic', 'percentage', 'soft', 'variance').
• Drei v9.54 (opens in a new tab) – yomotsu (opens in a new tab)'s camera-controls (opens in a new tab) 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 (opens in a new tab)

✍️ Content

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

✨ Games & Demos

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

See more on the ✨ Games & Demos (opens in a new tab) page or 🎮 WebGamer.io (opens in a new tab).

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