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I think I may be having a Mandela effect moment. For me, Braid was most prominently known as like a cool HTML5 tech demo. I remember playing it at like 15fps i

I think I may be having a Mandela effect moment. For me, Braid was most prominently known as like a cool HTML5 tech demo. I remember playing it at like 15fps in Google Chrome... And that's all it was. But now I look at wiki, and apparently it was a video game for consoles and natively released for PC? Am I misremembering something. Now when searching for the HTML5 version of Braid, I find no results. Edit: Lol, I'm thinking of Bastion, very similar name and art style: https://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/html5-only-version-of-bastion.html https://boingboing.net/2011/12/09/html5-only-version-of-bast...

hbosch 2y ago
I think you are misremembering. I think Braid debuted on the Xbox Arcade or something like that. Maybe you are remembering something like Passage?
- empath75 2y ago
  I am like 90% sure he's thinking of Passage.
  - dinobones 2y ago
    Thanks for the help, actually it was Bastion. https://supergiant-games.itch.io/bastion https://supergiant-games.itch.io/bastion The HTML5 demo I was thinking of: https://bastion.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Soldierscuzzy/Bastion_Now_Available_to_Play_on_Google_Chrome https://bastion.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Soldierscuzzy/Bast...
djur 2y ago
Making a demo of a single level of a commercial game was a pretty common way of showing off what the HTML5 canvas could do, but I remember people basing it on stuff like Doom, where you're less likely to get sued by an angry game dev. I don't remember anything of the sort myself.
zamadatix 2y ago
"Meat Boy", the Flash precursor to the indie hit "Super Meat Boy", was released less than 2 months after "Braid" so that could be it. "15 FPS" makes me think more along the lines of the Minecraft Java applet the following year or one of the early Unity web plugin demos maybe.
dwroberts 2y ago
Bret Victor used some Braid sprites for one of his talks I believe, is it possibly this you're thinking of?

hbosch 2y ago

I think you are misremembering. I think Braid debuted on the Xbox Arcade or something like that. Maybe you are remembering something like Passage?

empath75 2y ago
I am like 90% sure he's thinking of Passage.
- dinobones 2y ago
  Thanks for the help, actually it was Bastion. https://supergiant-games.itch.io/bastion https://supergiant-games.itch.io/bastion The HTML5 demo I was thinking of: https://bastion.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Soldierscuzzy/Bastion_Now_Available_to_Play_on_Google_Chrome https://bastion.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Soldierscuzzy/Bast...

djur 2y ago

Making a demo of a single level of a commercial game was a pretty common way of showing off what the HTML5 canvas could do, but I remember people basing it on stuff like Doom, where you're less likely to get sued by an angry game dev. I don't remember anything of the sort myself.

zamadatix 2y ago

"Meat Boy", the Flash precursor to the indie hit "Super Meat Boy", was released less than 2 months after "Braid" so that could be it. "15 FPS" makes me think more along the lines of the Minecraft Java applet the following year or one of the early Unity web plugin demos maybe.

dwroberts 2y ago

Bret Victor used some Braid sprites for one of his talks I believe, is it possibly this you're thinking of?