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> Videogames create their own UI in order to have lots of shiny effects and a crazy immersive audio-filled controller-driven experience... but non-videogames do

• danShumway 3y ago
  HTML/CSS definitely made prototyping easier for the game I'm working on, although I'm not sure if I'll stick with it for the final interface. My only critique in that area is that I can't put shaders on the DOM. CSS shaders were part of the CSS spec but they turned out to be pretty big privacy/security risks I guess, so they got deprecated before they ever really landed. I never figured out the full story. There's post-processing that you can do on a canvas that you can't do on a DOM tree -- not because it wouldn't be possible to do, just because... for multiple reasons, some of them very good, the browser doesn't support that kind of thing. If you could do fragment/vector shaders on parts of the DOM, I would very likely be using it for basically every text element in my game's interface. Those parts of the interface aren't really a performance concern either. The parts of my game where I feel like I really want GPU code are sprite rendering, the main gameplay window, etc... the menus are fine, I just don't like that I can't throw a fragment shader on top of them.