Jerod, Divya, & Suz get together to discuss top-level await, the JS13kGames winner, Liran Talâs is-website-vulnerable, Vue 3âs source code, and Facebookâs take on AR/VR/XR. Plus 3 awesome pro tips you donât want to miss!
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The scope creep of cURL is also something to behold, the program can do tons of stuff! Just look at the home page! With cURL having this many features (with the general mass of them being totally unknown to me, let alone how you use them) got me thinking⊠What if you could do a game show style challenge for them? I couldnât make it past the DELETE request (stage 3) without consulting Manuel. How far can you get?
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This game looks like the perfect way to get my kids coding without them knowing that Iâm getting them coding. The automation is via a drag-n-drop scratch-like interface (is it Scratch?), so it should be easy for anyone to do. Bot Land is available on all mobile platforms as well as the web. (!)
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Nintendo has been slowly bringing their iconic games and characters to mobile platforms. Maybe itâs time they consider the web platform? đ
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This provides easy access to the Gamepad API, which I didnât 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 freakinâ 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 itâd 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. đ
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This was âreceived from a friend of a friendâ, 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 weâre friends, otherwise itâs 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 âfrivolousâ JavaScript library thatâs 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 (youâll 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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Weâre 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 Victorâs super popular game called Generals â 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 âlearning purposesâ, but for me so far it has only been for âplaying purposesâ đ. Install it and play on your desktop, or simply telnet gameboy.live 1989âŠ
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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 donât think about when we make a game becauseâyouâre so lucky when a game is working and itâs making money, and itâs not canceled, and your studio isnât shutting down. So we donât necessarily think about the other side of it. And to be fair, most games donât have that high-engagement problem. Itâs only when itâs super successful that you can afford to consider âoh, maybe we need to think about this game a bit differently.â
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Swiftenstein is a partial reimplementation of ID Softwareâs 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 âclose enough for nostalgia purposesâ 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 canât 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, itâs worth it because you will be entertained while wading through the mucky-muck of solving what sounds like a simple problem (but isnât): I have some shapes. I want to find their intersection. Who knows, you might even learn some Rust along the wayâŠ
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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 afternoonâŠ
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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 SĂ©rgio Vieira and Iâm a portuguese guy who grew up in the 80s and 90s, Iâve always been nostalgic towards retro-gaming, specifically the third and forth generation consoles. A few years ago Iâve decided to learn more about electronics and try to build my own video game console. SĂ©rgio wins the internet this week. đ
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SCRIPT-8 is designed to encourage play â 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 âlivecodingâ environment. Send this to $YOUNG_PERSON in your life. But also bcc it to yourself. đ
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