End3r's Corner: personal blog of Andrzej Mazur.
A few days ago, on Saturday December 21st, I've helped organize Gamedev.js workshop where Michał Budzyński and Staś Małolepszy did really cool intro to the Entity Component System using Breakout game's source code as an example.
I was asked to give a talk about the evolution of HTML5 games at the… Warsaw Ruby Users Group meetup. So I did.
Who would've thought I'll be running around Warsaw and trying to cover Disney on Ice (Torwar) location and ConFrontJS conference (Engineering Design Center) at almost the same time, and get away with it?
It was another busy month - I've focused mostly on finishing writing GDevelop tutorial, but also organized Gamedev.js Warsaw #14 meetup, and gave a lightning talk at the JS Poland conference.
I was sitting at the Heathrow airport's gate waiting to board my flight to São Paulo where I was going to give a keynote at the WebBR conference, when I was asked to give a lightning talk at JS Poland 2019.
Two weeks ago, on Tuesday November 19th, we've gathered for the 14th edition of the Gamedev.js Warsaw meetup - it was hosted in the same building as the previous one (Warsaw #13 was all about js13kGames), but in the different place - a floor below of the WeWork spaces.
Back in August I was accepted to the first edition of the Season of Docs - Google's program to connect open source software with technical writers. I was set to write a hyper-casual game tutorial built in GDevelop engine.
This month's report is almost three weeks late, but I had my reasons: it was very busy recently, mostly js13kGames, MozFest, and WebBR.
Right after finishing up with MozFest Arcade in London I flew directly to São Paulo to give a closing keynote at the WebBR 2019 conference about the evolution of HTML5 game development.
I was lucky enough to be asked by Loup Design handling the Grant for the Web fund for Coil to showcase Web Monetized games at the Mozilla Festival's arcade booth - we were showing both Enclave Games creations and js13kGames entries from the Web Monetization category, and tossed in a WebXR game as it's always fun to play VR games at such events.
A few days ago, on Tuesday October 15th we had our thirteenth Gamedev.js Warsaw meetup, and so a special edition dedicated to js13kGames 2019 was held that day.
Who would've thought I'll send out the Gamedev.js Weekly newsletter issues three hundred times in a row, every single week since the beginning of January 2014?
September was another busy month full of js13kGames, but I managed to squeeze in finishing the NSHex Counter app, and visit Bielsko-Biała and Amsterdam in the meantime, both for the first time in my life.
I'm lucky enough to be part of the Mozilla Tech Speakers program since the very beginning and it's great to see how it grew over the years, and that there are so many super smart and talented people around the world participating. This year's opportunity to meet some of them in person happened in Amsterdam this past weekend, on September 28-29th 2019.
It looks like the W3C workshop about Web games in Seattle was crucial for the future of Enclave Games - we're going to invest our time and efforts into exploring Web Monetization opportunities with Coil.
Remember when I said I'm not gonna travel anywhere near September 13th, because there's just too much work accepting the js13kGames competition entries? Well, I was giving a talk the next day in another city - Bielsko-Biała.
For the very first time since 2010 I was able to finally mix two of my passions: building web games and playing Neuroshima Hex.
Js13kGames 2019 started on August 13th. Well, that's mostly it for this month, so…
We had a blast last weekend with eBay Tech kicking off js13kGames 2019 hackday on Saturday August 17th in GameOn Berlin, an arcade machine heaven.
Another year, another js13kGames. Even though last few months were mostly about the preparations of the new backend, we're still using the same one, with minor modifications, running since 2013. There are some good news though.
It's official! I'll be participating in this year's Season of Docs where Google helps connect technical writers with open source projects and communities - I've teamed up with the GDevelop folks.
This month's report is mostly about updating Enclave Phaser Template and the trip to London to give a WebXR talk at the FullStack conference.
Finally, after way longer than I wanted or expected, the Enclave Phaser Template was updated from Phaser version 2.6.2 to the currently latest version 3.18.1.
I've travelled to London last week to give a talk about WebXR at the FullStack 2019 conference that happened July 10th-12th in the Business Design Centre.
Two key events happened in June: I've attended the W3C workshop about Web games and presented indie perspective on the topic, and we've released our demo for the Meditations Games project.
Last week I had a great opportunity to meet with many folks from various companies at the W3C workshop on Web games which was held in Microsoft's office in Redmond to discuss the future of Web game development.
It all started in November 2018 when Jupi asked me if I'd be interested in a new project she's doing with Rami Ismail. Given it was suppose to be a small game that takes no more than a few hours to develop, I was totally up for it.
Two weeks from now, 27-28 June 2019 at the Microsoft campus in Redmond, W3C will host a workshop about Web games. I'm lucky enough to be able to attend thanks to being part of the Mozilla Tech Speakers initiative.
Not much had happened in May: js13kGames 2019 preparations are ongoing, 100 Days of Code is progressing slowly, and we had another Gamedev.js meetup in Warsaw.
Another month, another meetup. After the first one this year at Warsaw IT Days 2019 in March, and then Gamedev.js Warsaw #11 in April, we've met again in Codility's office on May 23rd and listen to some top quality talks.
April revolved around 100 Days of Code, Gamedev.js Warsaw #11 meetup and starting the countdown to js13kGames 2019.
Time to start the official preparations for the upcoming js13kGames 2019 competition. Why now? Because, as you can see below, there's only 13 weeks, 13 days, 13 hours, 13 minutes and 13 seconds left till the start, that's why!
One month after we've teamed up with Warsaw IT Days it was time to organize a meetup on our own. Well, kind of - we had some help from our friends running the meet.js Warsaw meetups.
It's quite incredible and terrible at the same time that it took me about a year (if not even more) from when I started talking about 100 Days of Code to actually starting the challenge, but here it finally is.
Have you heard about Wreck-It Ralph animated movie? It debuted in 2012, and a few years later the second one, Ralph Breaks the Internet, was out at the end of last year. Why am I writing all this you may ask? Because Enclave Games and Ralph have something in common. Well, kind of…
March was all about me trying to start learning Phaser 3 to update Enclave Phaser Template and planning Gamedev.js activities at the Warsaw IT Days. First one didn't work well, but at least the second one went better.
Another year, another edition of Warsaw IT Days. This time I've gone even further than usual and instead of just giving a talk (or two), I've organized a meetup, participated in a discussion panel and almost led a workshop.
Not much to tell, given the previous report was written less than two weeks ago. After a few months of trials and tribulations I've managed to sort stuff on my laptop and complete a full backup, including a total reinstall of the operating system from scratch.
Slow month with a happy ending during the last weekend - we've organized GameJam.js 2019 hackathon with the Polyjam crew in Warsaw for the Global Game Jam happening around the world.
Three weeks ago, on the weekend of January 25th-27th, GameJam.js 2019 had happened - it was hosted at the Warsaw University of Technology another year in a row.
Another year running Enclave Games have passed, so let's do the usual summary of the last twelve months and highlight entirely missed predictions from the previous one.
Last month of 2018 was rather quiet, as you'd expect - not much had happened in the first half, and the second was taken over by Christmas.