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Phaser 4 is coming

19th November 2024
…and this time for sure! The long anticipated version 4 of the highly popular web game framework Phaser is soon to be released, with v4.0.0 Beta 1 and Beta 2 both being published in the past few days. Because this is such a monumental upgrade, we are jumping up by…Read…
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Makesprite – get inspired on your next game

8th November 2024
Makesprite is a new open source web app published last summer by Chris McCormick, that helps you generate game sprites using generative AI. Have you ever had a vague idea for a game but found your inspiration running low? Or perhaps you already have a prototype but haven’t decided on…Read…
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WebStorm is now free for non-commercial use

5th November 2024
A new competitor to Visual Studio Code emerges, and it’s a well-known one. In a somewhat surprising move, JetBrains recently announced that two of its IDEs, WebStorm and Rider, are now free to use for non-commercial purposes: learning, contributing to open source, and developing hobby projects. This is a significant…Read…
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Pxtex

12th August 2024
Just before the start of the thirteenth edition of the js13kGames competition tomorrow, long time participant and legendary creator of multiple useful mini tools, Maxime Euzière, released another one: Pxtex – mini randomized pixel-art textures. His list of code-golfing tools and other projects is truly amazing – if you need…Read…
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Kontra v10

9th August 2024
A few days before the thirteenth edition of js13kGames starts on August 13th, the most popular micro-library used in the competition made by Steven Lambert, Kontra, was updated to version 10. There are some breaking changes in this release: seedRand: no longer returns rand as a function but instead modifies…Read…
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Reldens

26th July 2024
Reldens is a free, open-source MMORPG platform to create multiplayer games using a variety of tools: Node.js, Parcel, Colyseus, Phaser, Firebase, and MySQL. With a wide array of features, Reldens enables developers to craft a rich gaming experience without grappling with the complexities usually associated with making a multiplayer game…Read…
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OGMO Editor

22nd July 2024
OGMO Editor is an open source editor that is free to use for personal and commercial projects, made for indie game developers by indie game developers. Every feature of OGMO Editor contributes to an intuitive, holistic, project based workflow. Project data flows down to all of your level files, which…Read…
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Fabric.js v6

15th July 2024
Fabric.js, a simple and powerful Javascript HTML5 Canvas library, recently released its version 6.0. Fabric provides interactive object model on top of Canvas element, and has SVG-to-Canvas (and Canvas-to-SVG) parser. This brings back memories as I’ve made something called Falsy Values Fabric Tetris back in 2011, which was a Tetris…Read…
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Litecanvas

12th July 2024
Litecanvas, similar to Kontra or LittleJS, is a lightweight HTML5 Canvas engine suitable for small games and animations. This egine was made for people who enjoy coding: there is no fancy interface, no visual helpers, no gui tools… just coding. The sources are on GitHub – you can check the…Read…
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Warme Y2K

3rd July 2024
WarmeY2K is a game engine dedicated to indie games, with a free core engine and paid bundle containing 20 different game templates. It provide an easy way to build web based games by retrieve a traditional way to make “old-school” games like PS1/PS2/XBOX years in a modern Typescript & HTML5,…Read…

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