This is great! I've been toying around the idea of a game in my head for a while now, but every JS game engine I come across is terribly slow. This definitely seems like a leap in the right direction, congrats!
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#42This is great! I've been toying around the idea of a game in my head for a while now, but every JS game engine I come across is terribly slow. This definitely seems like a leap in the right direction, congrats!
To you and all the great commenters on HN, thanks! We're really looking forward to seeing any games you create.
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#43Crystal Galaxy was amazing. One of the best browser games I've played in any platform.
FWIW, sound doesn't work at all here in FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.4.
I know you're working on terms, and I haven't dug into it very much, but just FYI, if my games depend on your company's ongoing existence and good pleasure to run, I won't even start using your system, no matter how good it is. I would certainly consider paying for a license (and it could be a larger amount if there's some kind of provision for low-traffic/revenue use being free or cheap), but you'll probably have to just trust me to some extent, because (here I am repeating) if my games depend on you to run on an ongoing basis, I'm much more locked in with you than with Flash, and I just won't do it.
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#44It does seem to run on the iPhone 3gs, albeit it slowly.
One suggestion I might make is to detect iPhone/Android devices, and offer a popup control.
Further, you can provide the right meta data so that it can be added as a web-application, right to the iPhone home screen.
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#45Crystal Galaxy was amazing. One of the best browser games I've played in any platform. FWIW, sound doesn't work at all here in FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.4. I know you're working on terms, and I haven't dug into it very much, but just FYI, if my games depend on your company's ongoing existence and good pleasure to run, I won't even start using your system, no matter how good it is. I would certainly consider paying for a licen…
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#46Crystal Galaxy was amazing. One of the best browser games I've played in any platform. FWIW, sound doesn't work at all here in FF 3 on Ubuntu 9.4. I know you're working on terms, and I haven't dug into it very much, but just FYI, if my games depend on your company's ongoing existence and good pleasure to run, I won't even start using your system, no matter how good it is. I would certainly consider paying for a licen…
Hi there. You bring up a great point (one that we've thought about ourselves quite a bit). I'd like to mention that we are working on a standalone distribution package for your published games. This package can be deployed to your own server, and runs without contacting our servers. For whatever reason, if we go down (fingers crossed) we do not want to take you down with us.
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#47It does seem to run on the iPhone 3gs, albeit it slowly. One suggestion I might make is to detect iPhone/Android devices, and offer a popup control. Further, you can provide the right meta data so that it can be added as a web-application, right to the iPhone home screen.
Hi. These are great suggestions! A mobile optimized version of the engine and services are very high on our to do list so you can expect to see something in the near term.
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#48Can I do Isometric graphics, and will it outperform Canvas?
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#50Hi everyone, We've updated our policies http://bit.ly/4NKGHm so please give them a read, and check here http://bit.ly/7b4yF2 for a comment about an upcoming feature that addresses an additional concern. And thanks again for all the great comments!