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Comment by Jakobeha

I really wish internet games were the future. Both from the producer and consumer side - as someone who tried to make games before, and currently owns a low-end mac (great for productivity but bad for gaming) - I really believe the ideal is web-games that are easy to start and work everywhere.

The issue is that at least in my experience web game engines suck. JavaScript is slow and awful for large-scale software, even today. Frameworks which compile into JavaScript and WASM (e.g. libGDX) compile incorrectly, leading to obscure awful bugs, and they're still slow because JS. Your best bet is a general-purpose game engine like Unity or Godot which can export to web, but still, the web export is often broken, missing features, and just slow. Even tiny games I've played on itch.io either don't load or play super slow, and sometimes that might be the dev's fault, but often I think it's the state of web-gamedev in general.

parent Jakobeha 5 years ago

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