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💌 The Web Game Dev Newsletter Issue 028 is out! Read it online here: webgamedev.com/newsletter/028, and subscribe to get the next ones delivered right to your inbox 🚀 #threejs #r3f #gamedev

Newsletter – Issue 028 | Web Game Dev

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October 29, 2025 at 4:35 PM

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Erik Onarheim

@erikonarheim.com

Woo! The @excaliburjs.com v0.31.0 release (2D TypeScript Game Engine) and my "JavaScript Blazingly Fast! Lessons from a Game Engine" optimization talk made the Web Gamedev Newsletter!!!

www.webgamedev.com/newsletter/028

Definitely go follow the newsletter (and @verekia.com for the latest!)

Newsletter – Issue 028 | Web Game Dev

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October 29, 2025 at 5:23 PM

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Mookie Codes!

@mookie4242.bsky.social

It's been a hot minute since I've posted.

I've developed a card library for ExcaliburJS.
And I'm now using it to make a bare bones draw poker demo.

Thanks to @kenney.nl for the card assets for prototyping my library!

#indiedev #gamedev
@excaliburjs.com

October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Erik Onarheim

@erikonarheim.com

We did it! Check out our Ludum Dare 58 Game!

ldjam.com/events/ludum...

#gamedev #excaliburjs #ludumdare #ldjam

October 7, 2025 at 12:50 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

We got excalibur stickers for purchase now via Stripe!

excaliburjs.com

October 2, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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IGDATC

@igdatc.bsky.social

Ludum Dare 58 Approaches!

We are hosting an in person event with @2dcon.gg

* **Virtual ONLY Friday** October 3

* In-Person 2D Con HQ October 4-6

1325 Winter St NE #108, Minneapolis, MN 55413
Hours: 9AM-6PM Central US

* Discord discord.gg/Qw6Yj9CUvQ

* Message @erikonarheim.com with Q's

Join the IGDATC Jam Server Discord Server!

Check out the IGDATC Jam Server community on Discord - hang out with 61 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

discord.gg

October 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM

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Erik Onarheim

@erikonarheim.com

Hi friends! The State of JS 2025 survey is now open!
survey.devographics.com/en-US/survey...

Please fill it out! It helps all us web peeps out with data!!

Also if you mention you use Excalibur.js or listen to TypeScript.fm that'd be cool too 🥰

State of JavaScript 2025

Take the State of JavaScript survey

survey.devographics.com

October 1, 2025 at 3:56 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

⚔️🔥Excalibur v0.31.0 is out! TypeScript Game Engine!

Tons of new features, QOL, and fixes! Now with NPM Provenance!

* New SoundManager for managing groups of audio
* ECS query enhancement for "all", "any", and "not" querys
* Animation data storage
* EX Playground!
* Dev Containers!
* And lots more!

October 1, 2025 at 2:08 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

🕹️ Game Jam: Ludum Dare 58 🕹️

ldjam.com/events/ludum...

What: Let's make a game in 72 hours!!!

Who: Anyone that wants to make a game!

When: Friday October 3rd - Monday October 6th

How:
* Rules: ldjam.com/events/ludum...
* Suggest/vote on themes! ldjam.com/events/ludum...

September 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM

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Jeff Gerstmann

@jeffgerstmann.com

Wow, Blippo+ is pretty amazing.

September 24, 2025 at 3:57 AM

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Matthew Reynolds

@mattreyn.games

I really recommend Blippo+ - it lands the absurd alien tone its going for, has some great earworms, and emulates that bygone channel hopping sensation wonderfully (while never feeling overwhelming with the amount of shows 'required' to follow the story). And A++++ for having a Teletext mode.

September 23, 2025 at 4:20 PM

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MAKE Kasprzak 🐧🍁

@distraction.engineer

🎉

I found that if I prop it up just right, with a certain charger, I'm able to charge my laptop.

Anyway, I made an #LDJam post. Letting it juice up some more before I edit other things for the event. Theme Suggestions open.

ldjam.com

Thinkpad with USB C cable wedged in port, laying against couch. One of the few ways I'm able to successfully charge it.

September 20, 2025 at 10:20 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

🧱 Excalitris! A brand new Excalibur tetris-like sample is live! Check it out now! You can even do vim motions! Thanks to @chrisk-7777.bsky.social

Did you know you can do game dev with TypeScript?

Play: excaliburjs.com/sample-excal...

Repo: github.com/excaliburjs/...

#typescript #gamedev #tetris

September 22, 2025 at 1:58 PM

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🐤 Joanna

@jolexxa.bsky.social

🥳 congrats!! i hear it was made in #Godot + C# with lots of chickensoft tools 👀🤠

#indiedev #gamedev #dotnet

martin pichlmair @martinpi.bsky.social · Sep 17

Our SPARROW WARFARE playtest just went live for the public! Join the struggle against the evil storyteller that has enthralled all the other birds. Fight for the freedom of birdkind using wicked combinations of tiles in this mahjong-inspired deckbuilder.

store.steampowered.com/app/3473440/...

September 17, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

Excalibur game on Steam! Go wishlist it now!

store.steampowered.com/app/3834590/...

#indie #gamedev #excaliburjs #typescript

Now THAT'S a Big Dragon! on Steam

Recruit your army of heroes, upgrade your forces, and join in with your mighty mouse cursor, all in a satisfying quest to slay a massive dragon wreaking havoc on an innocent medieval kingdom. Will you...

store.steampowered.com

August 26, 2025 at 1:25 PM

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Mookie Codes!

@mookie4242.bsky.social

I have a new blogpost out on using dual Tilemaps for autotiling.

#indiedev #gamedev #tilemap @excaliburjs.com

excaliburjs.com/blog/Dual%20...

I have a demo application to play with this technique on Itch.io...
mookie4242.itch.io/dual-tilemap...

Leave a comment and let me know your thoughts!

Dual Tilemap Autotiling Technique | Excalibur.js

Intro

excaliburjs.com

August 25, 2025 at 1:13 AM

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Mookie Codes!

@mookie4242.bsky.social

Checkout my buddy’s NDC talk on how to make JavaScript performant!

This is what powers ExcaliburJS as a game engine.

#gamedev #indiedev

youtu.be/xCB9cB9YZL8?...

JavaScript Blazingly FAST! Lessons from a Game Engine - Erik Onarheim - NDC Oslo 2025

YouTube video by NDC Conferences

youtu.be

August 6, 2025 at 11:50 AM

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Erik Onarheim

@erikonarheim.com

My NDC Oslo talk is live!!! Let's Make JavaScript BLAZINGLY FAST! Lessons from a Game Engine @excaliburjs.com

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCB9...

#gamedev #javascript #excaliburjs

JavaScript Blazingly FAST! Lessons from a Game Engine - Erik Onarheim - NDC Oslo 2025

YouTube video by NDC Conferences

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August 6, 2025 at 1:11 PM

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Mookie Codes!

@mookie4242.bsky.social

Fooled around and made a ExcaliburJS level design tool that uses Excel or Google Sheets to design the level, parses it, and automagically creates your tilemap and entities for you in Excalibur!!!!

#gamedev #indiedev
@excaliburjs.com

August 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM

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🐤 Joanna

@jolexxa.bsky.social

stylized night sky shader i've been poking at...might be cooking up an actual game project who knows 🙈🫣 #godot #gamedev #indiedev

July 8, 2025 at 6:29 AM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

🗺️ New Graph module to do graph data structures and algorithms with built in path finding! Thanks @mookie4242.bsky.social!

Features:

- Nodes with custom data
- Weighted, directed or undirected edges
- Position nodes in 2D space for spatial algorithms
- Built in BFS and DFS
- Path finding!

Code Snippet

```typescript
import { Graph } from 'excalibur';

// Create an empty graph of strings
const graph = new Graph<string>();

// Add a few nodes with string data
const nodeA = graph.addNode("A");
const nodeB = graph.addNode("B");
const nodeC = graph.addNode("C");

// Connect nodes with bidirectional edges (default)
graph.addEdge(nodeA, nodeB);
graph.addEdge(nodeB, nodeC);
graph.addEdge(nodeC, nodeD);
graph.addEdge(nodeD, nodeE);

// Check if nodes are connected
const connected = graph.areNodesConnected(nodeA, nodeB); // true

// Get neighbors of a node
const neighbors = graph.getNeighbors(nodeA); // [nodeB]

// Find shortest path from A to C
const { path, distance } = graph.shortestPathDijkstra(nodeA, nodeC);

const aStarResults = graph.astar(nodeA, nodeB);
```

June 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM

Excalibur.js

@excaliburjs.com

🧩 New ECS feature to improve Query options just landed in main Excalibur thanks to @mattjennin.gs!

Latest alpha `npm install excalibur@next`

Queries can now take additional options to filter in/out by components or tags! This is huge for our ECS fans out there and a long requested feature!