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 ## Game Updates
 
+### [A/B Street][abstreet]
+
+![Isometric buildings and textured areas](abstreet.png)
+
+[A/B Street][abstreet] is a traffic simulation game exploring how small changes
+to roads affect cyclists, transit users, pedestrians, and drivers. Any city
+with OpenStreetMap coverage can be used!
+
+Some of this month's updates:
+
+- finished support for driving on the left side of the road;
+- isometric buildings and support for textures by [Michael][mkirk];
+- a flurry of major UI updates, thanks to the return of the project's UX
+  designer;
+- an option to disable parking simulation, to workaround missing data.
+- alleyways imported from OSM;
+- more realistic traffic signal timing constraints, thanks to
+  [Sam][NoSuchThingAsRandom], a new contributor.
+
+[abstreet]: https://abstreet.org
+[mkirk]: https://github.com/michaelkirk
+[NoSuchThingAsRandom]: https://github.com/NoSuchThingAsRandom/
+
 ### [Citybound]
 
 ![Live editing of procedural architecture rules](citybound.png)
@@ -75,6 +98,112 @@ hot-code reload of building rules in the running game.
 [Anselm Eickhoff]: https://twitter.com/ae_play
 [a small demo]: https://reddit.com/r/Citybound/comments/j2xg2s/sneak_peek_custom_procedural_architecture
 
+### [Mimas]
+
+![Mimas screenshot](mimas.png)
+
+[Mimas] is a WIP voxel engine and game, inspired by Minetest and Minecraft.
+It's been in development since almost 2 years, and has recently seen a public
+prototype release 0.4.0.
+
+Several of the features that have already been implemented as of Oct 1st:
+
+- Procedural map generation with hilly landscape, trees, flowers, water and caves
+- Map manipulation (removal/addition of blocks)
+- Crafting
+- Chests
+- Textures (taken from the Minetest project, under CC-BY-SA license)
+- Tools
+- QUIC based network protocol with SRP based authentication
+- Multiplayer: chat, (hardcoded) avatars
+- Ability to add custom content (e.g. blocks) using a toml format
+
+Imgur screenshot [gallery].
+
+[Mimas]: https://github.com/est31/mimas
+[gallery]: https://imgur.com/a/vvo7len
+
+### pGLOWrpg
+
+![pGLOWrpg banner](pglowrpg_banner.png)
+
+The [@pGLOWrpg] (Procedurally Generated Living Open World RPG) is a long-term
+project in development by [@Roal_Yr], which aims to be a text-based game with
+maximum portability and accessibility and focus on interactions and emergent
+narrative.
+
+The pGLOWrpg meets its first official anniversary on September the 15th
+and goes public at [pGLOWrpg repo]!
+
+For the past month the main focus of the development was on:
+
+- Improving the UI.
+- Major refactoring.
+- Unification of I/O means.
+- Making things ready for publication.
+
+Main features of reported version are:
+
+- Ability to generate one or many worlds from customizable presets.
+- Ability to have output in both raw (b/w .png) and colorized images.
+- Generated data is as follows: terrain, watermask, biomes, rivers, geological regions,
+  rainfall and temperature.
+
+For main feature reports and dev blogs follow [@pGLOWrpg] on Twitter.
+
+[@Roal_Yr]: https://twitter.com/Roal_Yr
+[@pGLOWrpg]: https://twitter.com/pglowrpg
+[pGLOWrpg repo]: https://github.com/roalyr/pglowrpg
+
+### Oh no, Lava!
+
+![shooting water into lava](ohnolava_troligtvis.gif)
+
+"Oh no, Lava!" by [@captainfleppo] is the working title
+of a platforming game which take inspiration
+from an old iOS game created back in 2014. The game is running with [Bevy][bevy]
+as its core. The gameplay isn't there yet, but you as a player need to jump on
+furnitures, collect coins and fight lava/fire based enemies with your water gun.
+
+[@captainfleppo]: https://twitter.com/captainfleppo
+[bevy]: https://bevyengine.org
+
+### [BUGOUT]
+
+![Play Go against AI and friends on the web](BUGOUT.jpg)
+_Playing KataGo AI in 9x9_
+
+[BUGOUT] is a web application which allows you to play Go/Baduk/Weiqi
+against a leading AI ([KataGo]).
+It provides a multiplayer mode so that you can play other humans,
+either by joining a public queue or sharing a private URL to your friend.
+
+The user interface is lifted from [Sabaki].
+
+The initial installation's AI is powered by an energy-efficient
+[dev board][nv-devboard].
+
+BUGOUT is marching actively toward production, at which point the
+team will publish the website address and invite users.
+The author anticipates being finished with the production release
+prior to Jan 1, 2021.
+
+[BUGOUT]: https://github.com/Terkwood/BUGOUT
+[KataGo]: https://github.com/lightvector/KataGo
+[Sabaki]: https://github.com/SabakiHQ/Sabaki
+[nv-devboard]: https://developer.nvidia.com/embedded/jetson-nano-developer-kit
+
+### Project YAWC
+
+![Screenshot of an in-progress game of Project YAWC](project_yawc.png)
+
+Project YAWC is an in-progress Advance-Wars style strategy game being developed
+by junkmail using [ggez] as a framework. The game is currently in a closed alpha
+state with working netplay. September saw the release of version A2, including
+revamped netcode and the full core set of units.
+
+[ggez]: https://ggez.rs/
+
 ## Learning Material Updates
 
 ### [OpenGL Preprocessor for Rust]