Nintendo has been slowly bringing their iconic games and characters to mobile platforms. Maybe it’s time they consider the web platform? 😉

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This provides easy access to the Gamepad API, which I didn’t even know was a thing. The API is callback-style: gameControl.on('connect', function(gamepad) { gamepad.on('up', moveCharacterUp); });

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Welcome to the fantastic world of nerdy regex fun! Start playing by selecting one of the puzzle challenges below. There are a wide range of difficulties from beginner to expert. Over 52,000 nerds after my own heart have already registered to play.

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Version Museum showcases the visual history of popular websites, operating systems, applications, and games that have shaped our lives. I freakin’ love this site. They have quite a collection here, everything from Amazon.com and Google Maps to Mac OS and Super Mario Kart. Version 1.5 of Microsoft Excel was dope! (full Excel history here)

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Having to open an additional app to play a game is sometimes too tiring. Therefore, I thought it’d be interesting to somehow implement Minecraft with javascript, essentially bringing the whole Minecraft game into the web. This not only takes away the tedious process of installing the game, it also brings the entire game to players within a couple clicks. Words cannot describe how much I adore the thought that building this extremely ambitious piece of software was a better alternative to the tedious process of installing the game. 😆

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This was “received from a friend of a friend”, then posted for download. That means if you download it (for learning purposes only, there are no executables here), you got it from a friend who got it from a stranger who got it from a friend of a friend (assuming we’re friends, otherwise it’s strangers all the way down).

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On June 6, 2019 Tetris turned 35 years old. To celebrate, I wrote my own version and posted it in my GitHub repo. No libraries. No frameworks. Just JavaScript. Those learning JavaScript might find a few lessons here!

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Jerod and Divya are joined by George Mandis to learn all about his “frivolous” JavaScript library that’s helped countless websites implement the beloved cheat code. Ten years later and still actively maintained, Konami-JS has stood the test of time and produced some epic stories along the way (you’ll love hearing how George broke Marvel.com).

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Since all these projects are open source you can help them and make this world a better place. Or at least you can play something to appreciate the effort people put in them. I love how they even highlight which games are still playable and how active their development is. A lot of love went into this very excellent resource. Game on!

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With Zdog, you can design and render simple 3D models on the Web. Zdog is a pseudo-3D engine. Its geometries exist in 3D space, but are rendered as flat shapes. This makes Zdog special.

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We’re talking with Victor Zhou about the explosion of the .io game genre. We talked through all the details around building and running one of these games, the details behind Victor’s super popular game called Generals — which he eventually sold, and we also covered the economics behind creating and selling one of these games.

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The README says Gameboy.Live is for “learning purposes”, but for me so far it has only been for “playing purposes” 😜. Install it and play on your desktop, or simply telnet gameboy.live 1989…

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This Q+A with Celia Hodent, former Fortnite UX Lead, is quite enlightening when considering game design, engagement, and addiction as it relates to massively successful games like Fortnite. My latest GDC talk was about ethics in the video game industry, and I talked about addiction. These are the things we don’t think about when we make a game because—you’re so lucky when a game is working and it’s making money, and it’s not canceled, and your studio isn’t shutting down. So we don’t necessarily think about the other side of it. And to be fair, most games don’t have that high-engagement problem. It’s only when it’s super successful that you can afford to consider “oh, maybe we need to think about this game a bit differently.”

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Swiftenstein is a partial reimplementation of ID Software’s 1992 classic FPS Wolfenstein 3D in Swift for iOS. It is not a complete game, just a single-level tech demo. Not a complete re-creation of the original, but “close enough for nostalgia purposes” and definitely worth a read-through for education purposes.

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A quine is a program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output. This one also plays snake over its own source code! I can’t fathom how much thought went into this. Also trial and error. LOTS of trial and error. Super cool.

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I recently ported some math code from C++ to Rust in an attempt to do a cool thing with Doom. Here is my story. Buckle up, because this a #longread. However, it’s worth it because you will be entertained while wading through the mucky-muck of solving what sounds like a simple problem (but isn’t): I have some shapes. I want to find their intersection. Who knows, you might even learn some Rust along the way…

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CSSBattle is a fun developer game where players replicate visual targets using the smallest possible code and climb the leaderboards. Looks like a fun way to waste spend your Friday afternoon…

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A city building game that uses microscopic models to vividly simulate the organism of a city arising from the interactions of millions of individuals. Runs in the browser via WebAssembly.

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Start off your Monday by working on your Tetris skills right inside your terminal.

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Just wow. Quixel has just showed us what the future of video games could look like. Introducing Rebirth, a real-time cinematic produced by Quixel, harnessing the power of Unreal Engine and real-world scans from the Megascans Icelandic collection. With photorealistic results rivaling traditional offline renderers, Rebirth represents a new way of crafting computer graphics.

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My name is Sérgio Vieira and I’m a portuguese guy who grew up in the 80s and 90s, I’ve always been nostalgic towards retro-gaming, specifically the third and forth generation consoles. A few years ago I’ve decided to learn more about electronics and try to build my own video game console. Sérgio wins the internet this week. 🏆

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SCRIPT-8 is designed to encourage play — the kind of wonder-filled play children experience as they explore and learn about the world. In order to support this goal, everything in SCRIPT-8 has immediate feedback. It is what some call a “livecoding” environment. Send this to $YOUNG_PERSON in your life. But also bcc it to yourself. 😉

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The engine is a fork of the Quake II codebase that focuses on serving as a base for standalone games. Unlike other ports, it does not aim at being compatible with mods or the base Quake II game. In fact, many features were removed to reduce the complexity of the codebase and make the process of creating new games on top of the engine easier and faster.

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PhysX is NVIDIA’s hardware-accelerated physics simulation engine that’s now released as open source to move it beyond its most common use case in the gaming world, to give access to the embedded and scientific fields — think AI, robotics, computer vision, and self-driving cars. PhysX SDK has gone open source, starting today with version 3.4! It is available under the simple 3-Clause BSD license. With access to the source code, developers can debug, customize and extend the PhysX SDK as they see fit.

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I love this with my whole heart. 🤤

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