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King for the day: 'underdiscovered' games get the spotlight!
21.7.2022
Thanks to some special guests, as we round off our summer holidays
CryptoPunk sells for $2.6M: Nifty Newsletter, July 13–19
20.7.2022
A consulting firm predicted that the NFT market could be worth $231 billion in 2030, noting that the market will grow at a rate of over 33.7% in the years to come
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands
20.7.2022
Michelle Barker with my favorite sorta blog post: short, practical, and leaves you with a valuable nugget for your time. Here, she gets into logical property shorthands in CSS, particularly those that set lengths just on a single axis, …
Logical Properties for Useful Shorthands originally...
Why haven't you heard of this 'hit game'?
18.7.2022
Oh, we can definitely think of a reason
How stroke-dasharray Patterns Work
15.7.2022
Say you have a line in SVG:
<svg<line x1="0" y1="30" x2="500" y2="30" stroke-color="#f8a100" /</svg
You can use the stroke-dasharray property in CSS to make dashes:
line {
stroke-dasharray: 5;
}
That 5 value is a relative unit based …
How stroke-dasharray Patterns...
Plus: Dinkum, PowerWash Simulator 1.0 lead Steam 'debuts' for week
15.7.2022
[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by ‘how people find your game’ expert Simon Carless. This newsletter - co-written by our data/ops co-ordinator Alejandro - is exclusive to GameDiscoverCo Plus subscribers, and rounds up game sales & other analysis.]
Office Spaces
14.7.2022
I think it’s super timely that Jim Nielson wrote about his office space the other day. My family recently re-rooted in Colorado and I was up late last night setting up my desk and everything around it. So late, in …
Office Spaces originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get...
PC casual games - exploring a vestigial market?
14.7.2022
The summer holiday newsletters kick off with an intriguing one
Playboy to launch in The Sandbox metaverse: Nifty Newsletter, July 6–12
13.7.2022
A Web3 startup has also created a subscription model that uses nonfungible tokens to offer lifetime Netflix and Spotify membership
React Hooks: The Deep Cuts
13.7.2022
Hooks are reusable functions. They allow you to use state and other features (e.g. lifecycle methods and so on) without writing a class. Hook functions let us “hook into” the React state lifecycle using functional components, allowing us to manipulate …
React Hooks: The Deep Cuts originally...
In Praise of Shadows
12.7.2022
Our dear friend Robin has a new essay called In Praise of Shadows. Now, before you hop over there looking for nuggets on CSS box shadows, text shadows, and shadow filters… this is not that. It’s an essay …
In Praise of Shadows originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
How one of Sokpop's almost 100 (!) Steam games became a big hit
11.7.2022
Sometimes there's strength in numbers, folks!
Technical Writing for Developers
11.7.2022
HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Python, PHP, C++, Dart — there are so many programming languages out there and you may even be totally fluent in several of them! But as we aim to write more and better code, the way we …
Technical Writing for Developers originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should...
Plus: Klonoa, Gwent top a slow-ish new Steam week?
9.7.2022
Also: what's up next week, console, EGS, VR charts, and all that goodness
What's the top-selling new Switch games of H1 2022 - and why?
8.7.2022
We'll do some extrapolation to find out
NFTs to authenticate racing car parts: Nifty Newsletter, June 29–July 5
6.7.2022
The most-followed TikTok creator Khaby Lame also partnered with Binance to create Web3 content and create nonfungible tokens with the exchange
How to make a hit indie Metroidvania: the lowdown!
5.7.2022
Or at least, this is how Haiku The Robot did it
Collective Nouns for the Web
1.7.2022
Melanie Sumner has this super-specific collection of web-related nouns for describing a group or set of something. You know how there’s a school or fish or a herd of cows? Same sort of thing, but for funny web jargon.
Things …
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Plus: the top Steam games debuting in Q3!
1.7.2022
And a look at all the other trending game goodness, of course
Single Element Loaders: Going 3D!
1.7.2022
For this fourth and final article of our little series on single-element loaders, we are going to explore 3D patterns. When creating a 3D element, it’s hard to imagine that just one HTML element is enough to simulate something like...