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I see a lot of game devs in discord experimenting with Electrobun to release desktop games. I think it's going to eat a piece of the Electron pie for Steam ind
by hu3 8mo ago
I see a lot of game devs in discord experimenting with Electrobun to release desktop games.
I think it's going to eat a piece of the Electron pie for Steam indie games.
Most stay with bun after seeing how fast and seamless it is to run typescript games with instant auto reload:
bun --watch game.ts
- GCUMstlyHarmls 8mo agoAre many games built with Electron ...? I know there are a few HTML5 games, crosscode was the first one I recall seeing that really pushed it. Aren't most small games Unity or Godot?
- hopfog 8mo agoCrossCode is a marvel in that they had to build their own runtime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807 I think the most famous Electron game is Vampire Suvivors, but it has since been ported to Unity.
- egeozcan 8mo agoI do a lot of web development, and even if we set the great tooling aside for a moment, Bun is still a major improvement (a real leap, I’d say) when it comes to performance.
- hopfog 8mo agoWhat Discord server are you referring to? Would love to join.
- merlindru 8mo agoalso wondering about this. it sure isn't in electrobuns own discord server. i'm in that one and its mostly Q&A (with Yoav doing most of the answering and a couple people like me doing most of the questioning, ha) this is the first i'm hearing about games being built with electron / web tech too, let alone electrobun. i thought most game devs would just go for unity or godot
- jazzypants 8mo agonode has watch mode and runs TypeScript files now too.