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   by riadd 8y ago

   Thanks for the feedback. I'll do another test on Firefox. To be honest perfomance is best on Chrome at the moment.
2. 62.▲
   by riadd 8y ago

   Wrote some more details in the other comment, but if you have more questions let me know.
3. 63.▲
   by riadd 8y ago

   I guess that argument goes against a lot of JS stuff. Running on very old hardware was not our top priority for this game.
4. 64.▲
   by riadd 8y ago

   Which browser are you using?
5. 65.▲
   by riadd 8y ago

   Do you have any more info about this? I don't have Ciscro Umbrella installed, I could not reproduce any issues using other anti virus services.
6. 66.▲
   by riadd 8y ago

   Yeah sure, I also want to do a blog post about it in the future, but I thought it would be nice to link to playable build for this submission directly. It uses our own HTML5 engine. Rendering is based on a simple canvas tag and 2d context d
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   Show HN: The Curious Expedition – A Steam game in HTML5(demo.curious-expedition.com)

   458 points by riadd 8y ago|141 comments
8. 68.▲
   by riadd 10y ago

   Steam's market power is huge and extremely important for having any visibility at all.
9. 69.▲
   by riadd 10y ago

   Yes, sorry I wasn't sure what the right amount of information is for this platform. I see I jumped the gun a bit. I'll make a proper blog post with detailed information.
10. 70.▲
    by riadd 10y ago

    Its is written in CoffeeScript. I started about 4 years ago working on it. At this point I would probably just use JS. No specific frameworks or module architecture was used.
11. 71.▲
    by riadd 10y ago

    Yes, sorry about that. I see this post was already (rightly) flagged, so I'll do a proper blog post and will repost when it is done.
12. 72.▲
    by riadd 10y ago

    Around $5000. Most of that went into having a small booth at Gamescom.
13. 73.▲
    by riadd 10y ago

    No game engine was used. I render directly to canvas. Using CoffeeScript for our custom engine. Electron is super thin layer to put it on Steam. I'll prepare a blog post and will share more info there. Sorry for jumping the gun here. I
14. 74.▲
    by riadd 10y ago

    Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't sure if hacker news would be interested at all and was unsure what best to share. I'll write a blog with challenges and lessons learned.
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    Show HN: We sold over 30,000 units of our HTML5/Electron game on Steam(store.steampowered.com)

    34 points by riadd 10y ago|22 comments
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    Curious Expedition – a modern HTML5 roguelite game(curious-expedition.com)

    1 points by riadd 12y ago|0 comments