Issue 006
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🔥 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
Canvasshadowprop shortcuts ('basic','percentage','soft','variance'). - Drei v9.54 –
yomotsu‘s
camera-controls library is now available via
<CameraControls>. It is similar to
OrbitControlswith 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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