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Exporting to web from any major engine is an unavoidably complex mess, but developing for web first doesn't make a ton of sense. Who's playing games in their br
by TillE 3y ago
Exporting to web from any major engine is an unavoidably complex mess, but developing for web first doesn't make a ton of sense. Who's playing games in their browser these days, just kids with Chromebooks?
Web games are really convenient when browsing game jam entries or otherwise poking around on itch.io, but mobile/console/PC is where the money is.
- reitzensteinm 3y agoKids with Chromebooks have minted many millionaires. As with any space in the industry, unless you're a big player, TAM matters less than how crowded it is. I have sympathy for the weight of exporting a big engine to the web. But if they're breaking loading bars and don't really care, the problems extend beyond the first principles technical challenge.
- meheleventyone 3y agoAs with the sibling post a surprising number of niches. The games industry is definitely guilty of having a blind spot about anything outside the core. But that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Wider game devs discovery of Roblox only after it had become an enormous juggernaut is also largely “kids with Chromebooks”. Games like Krunker and frankly many others also have no issue publishing web tech games on Steam.