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This is impressive but I don't get it. All that work and you have a game written in JS of all things. Why not write it in a desktop language und port it to JS.

This is impressive but I don't get it. All that work and you have a game written in JS of all things. Why not write it in a desktop language und port it to JS. Now this will always need a browser to run, feels like a waste of time to me.

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sh4rks 1y ago
Can always use Electron or Tauri to turn it into a native app
- hagbard_c 1y ago
  Electron and native do not belong in the same sentence AFAIK unless you mean 'native to the browser (which happens to be included in the package)'. Tauri is the same, just bring your own 'browser' (webview, really).
  - yurishimo 1y ago
    We all build on top of something. Today’s browser will look like a native platform in another 20 years. Just like assembly does to our point of view today.
modernerd 1y ago
Or, reframing: - This will _only_ need a browser to run. No console. No PC rig. No Steam account. No account at all. You just need a link to play it. - Why use a heavy game engine and all the baggage that can bring when you can make a lightweight prototype in JS, prove value in the browser, then port to desktop if you choose to. Browser games are an underexplored art form.
- cluckindan 1y ago
  First you make the money, then hire someone else to port it to native. That’s what Vampire Survivors did.
DecoySalamander 1y ago
You're looking at it in the wrong way. It's written in the native language of the best content delivery platform we have available.
- hedora 1y ago
  It’ll also run pretty well on pretty much any OS. If I had a BSD box with GPU acceleration laying around, I’d give it a spin.
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wiseowise 1y ago
> Now this will always need a browser to run, feels like a waste of time to me. As opposed to creating binaries for every platform and be subject to every possible store scrutiny on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac? That not a waste of time for sure. What am I ever reading?

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sh4rks 1y ago

Can always use Electron or Tauri to turn it into a native app

hagbard_c 1y ago
Electron and native do not belong in the same sentence AFAIK unless you mean 'native to the browser (which happens to be included in the package)'. Tauri is the same, just bring your own 'browser' (webview, really).
- yurishimo 1y ago
  We all build on top of something. Today’s browser will look like a native platform in another 20 years. Just like assembly does to our point of view today.

modernerd 1y ago

Or, reframing: - This will _only_ need a browser to run. No console. No PC rig. No Steam account. No account at all. You just need a link to play it. - Why use a heavy game engine and all the baggage that can bring when you can make a lightweight prototype in JS, prove value in the browser, then port to desktop if you choose to. Browser games are an underexplored art form.

cluckindan 1y ago
First you make the money, then hire someone else to port it to native. That’s what Vampire Survivors did.

DecoySalamander 1y ago

You're looking at it in the wrong way. It's written in the native language of the best content delivery platform we have available.

hedora 1y ago
It’ll also run pretty well on pretty much any OS. If I had a BSD box with GPU acceleration laying around, I’d give it a spin.

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wiseowise 1y ago

> Now this will always need a browser to run, feels like a waste of time to me. As opposed to creating binaries for every platform and be subject to every possible store scrutiny on Android, iOS, Windows, Mac? That not a waste of time for sure. What am I ever reading?