Enclave Games Monthly Report: January 2024
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Published: 2024-02-05 21:39:38

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Lots of things happened in January: we’ve [summarized 2023 and made plans for 2024](https://enclavegames.com/blog/2023-and-plans-for-2024/), published [Gamedev.js Survey 2023 results](https://gamedevjs.com/survey/report-on-the-current-state-of-web-game-development-in-2023-is-now-published/), I’ve prepared the first four weekly issues of the [Phaser World](https://end3r.com/blog/phaser-world/) newsletter after revival, W3C Games group had a [meetup about generative AI](https://end3r.com/blog/w3c-games-cg-jan-2024/), the NSHex Counter app got two armies ([Merchants Guild](https://enclavegames.com/blog/nshex-counter-merchants-guild/) and [Partisans](https://enclavegames.com/blog/nshex-counter-partisans/)) added, and I published ten different news posts on [NeuroshimaHex.pl](https://neuroshimahex.pl/).

### Games

No games in particular, but I did some coding, finally (even if just a little bit) — the [NSHex Counter](https://nshex.enclavegames.com/counter/) app made with Phaser had two [Neuroshima Hex](https://neuroshimahex.pl/) armies added: [Merchants Guild](https://enclavegames.com/blog/nshex-counter-merchants-guild/) and [Partisans](https://enclavegames.com/blog/nshex-counter-partisans/).

### Writing

I wrote the lenghty [Enclave Games in 2023, and plans for 2024](https://enclavegames.com/blog/2023-and-plans-for-2024/), a summary of what we did in the past year and our hopes for the one that just started.

![Enclave Games - Monthly January 2024: Gamedev.js Survey 2023](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*TSXeXMKF4-QgnXyp.png)

The [Gamedev.js Survey 2023](https://gamedevjs.com/survey/2023/) needed summarizing comments to the answers of all 35 questions, so that took me a considerable amount of time in the first half of the month. The [Report on the current state of Web Game Development in 2023](https://gamedevjs.com/survey/report-on-the-current-state-of-web-game-development-in-2023-is-now-published/) was published in the middle of January.

![Enclave Games - Monthly January 2024: NSHex Counter Merchants Guild and Partisans](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*vGnhWPrYQgDkoTSA.png)

I wrote ten news articles for the [NeuroshimaHex.pl](https://neuroshimahex.pl/) site, including two editorials of logner posts by other folks from our community. There was also the “famous” drama one about the board game [standing at the edge of oblivion](https://neuroshimahex.pl/news/neuroshima-hex-na-skraju-przepasci/), or something along those lines.

Plus the published job offer for a [Senior WebGL Graphics Engineer at Phaser Studio](https://gamedevjs.com/jobs/senior-webgl-graphics-engineer-at-phaser-studio/), which was quite popular in our community.

### Design

[Ewa](https://mypoint.pl/) focused on preparing the charts for the [Gamedev.js Survey 2023](https://gamedevjs.com/survey/2023/) results, did the graphic assets for the [NSHex Counter](https://nshex.enclavegames.com/counter/) updates, and worked on the new online t-shirt shops we’re going to launch soon.

### Events

We’ve published 11 new pictures of people wearing [js13kGames](https://js13kgames.com/) 2023 t-shirts [on Facebook](https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.887320740060687&type=3) in January, some of them really impressive.

![Enclave Games - Monthly January 2024: W3C Games CG about AI in games](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*scHmx4rWv-E38bLL.png)

I’ve given a short talk on the Gamedev.js Survey 2023 results during the bi-monthly [W3C Games CG meetup](https://end3r.com/blog/w3c-games-cg-jan-2024/) where **Georg Zoeller** was talking about **generative AI in games**.

![Enclave Games - Monthly January 2024: FireDEV podcast with Andrzej and Ewa](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*A5Gpj5RNQ7-u2WPJ.png)

Also, two **FireDEV podcast** episodes, [with me](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BV9c621E0aM) and [with Ewa](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDW6vAWzuQA), were published recently.

We’ve also considered participating in **Global Game Jam** this year, but after learning the theme is ”_make me laugh_” we’ve skipped it entirely.

### Other

I’m now managing two newsletters: beside my very own [Gamedev.js Weekly](https://gamedevjsweekly.com/) since January 2014, now I’m also part time [helping with the Phaser World newsletter](https://end3r.com/blog/phaser-world/) since the beginning of January this year.

![Enclave Games - Monthly January 2024: Phaser World newsletter](https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/1024/0*eTfobp4gO0P8hin7.jpg)

My **Dropbox** is constantly full, so I’ve made a backup for some work related stuff and setup  **Box**.

A new **Studios** section in our [Gamedev.js Discord](https://gamedevjs.com/discord) was created, with two channels already: _#emc23_ and… _#enclavegames_. It’s mainly for small indie studios not having their own Discord, but still wanting to interact with the web gamedev community, so if you’d like to have yours just let me know.

Even my [TataDeveloper](https://tatadeveloper.end3r.com/) parenting blog (in Polish) got a few new posts - so far I did four in a row, three in January, one per week.

### Plans for the next month

Publish a few more blog posts, and then WRITE SOME CODE FOR A GAME. If that won’t work, then what’s the point in being a _game developer_?