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Does anyone actually play games in the browser? I mean, there is no technical reason not to, but I kinda find it strange.
Lots of indies like to make their games available and easily playable (e.g. no download) during development on itch so for that use case, yes, it's important.
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What are the specific requirements for games? C++ is also not built for games. It’s built for anything, including games.
Consistent low latency, perhaps.
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It's mostly a historical accident, like Python ending up as the data science language. Microsoft XNA used to be a popular indie game framework that used C#. Stardew Valley, Celeste and Terraria run on XNA. Mono used C#. Xamarin used Mono to create a cross-platform application framework that worked on mobile. Unity leveraged Xamarin to create a cross-platform game engine that worked on mobile, ending up using C#. Thus…
I don't see this at all. game devs on average want to be closer to the hardware and JS is even farther from it than c# (and c# has added more ways to do things like traditional pointers when you need to squeeze even more performance out). Lua you can certainly make an argument for because LuaJIT is insanely fast.
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It's mostly a historical accident, like Python ending up as the data science language. Microsoft XNA used to be a popular indie game framework that used C#. Stardew Valley, Celeste and Terraria run on XNA. Mono used C#. Xamarin used Mono to create a cross-platform application framework that worked on mobile. Unity leveraged Xamarin to create a cross-platform game engine that worked on mobile, ending up using C#. Thus…
I'd argue that the availability of value types in C# gives it a leg up over languages like JavaScript for performance-sensitive games work. These days v8 and spidermonkey have incredible garbage collectors capable of incremental/parallel collection so people have been able to ship JS-based games on PC+Console, but when it comes to game scripting it's either languages with value types like C#/C++ or languages with mor…
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>>> Unity still isn't taking industry seriously What does this mean?
They laid off 300 developers including some of the most experienced ones.
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The binaries produced just for the engine itself (so exluding the game code and assets) is already several MB large when compressed with brotly or gzip [1]. So it works, but it's too large to be competitive enough on web games portals. Most players will just go play another game if it takes too long to load (download). Only JS based game engines and to some extend Defold are good enough in this regard. [1] https://gi…
Note that the article mentions ahead-of-time compilation and binary size trimming as one of the explicit goals of this version.
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I'd argue that the availability of value types in C# gives it a leg up over languages like JavaScript for performance-sensitive games work. These days v8 and spidermonkey have incredible garbage collectors capable of incremental/parallel collection so people have been able to ship JS-based games on PC+Console, but when it comes to game scripting it's either languages with value types like C#/C++ or languages with mor…
I'm completely uninformed about lua, but why isn't it being used more to build games then? I know it's a popular scripting language for games, but are there any engines that mainly use lua (in the same way Unity uses C#)?
As engines became larger products, companies often have the resources to make something bigger for game teams. Unreal’s Blueprints, or Godot’s GDScript integrate much more tightly with the engine’s runtime.
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Running games in the browser provides a bit of convenience of not having to download and run a platform-specific executable. There might be some security benefits too. Depends on the nature of the game though. It works best for games that are lightweight and stateless.
Sure, this was clear to me too. My question was not so much about the advantages of browser games but rather if they actually have a market. And speaking of that: what are the main monetization schemes? Are browser games sold like other games? Or are they mostly ad-based like other web content?
Some of those are accepting donations, but I can't tell if they are profitable.
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I'd argue that the availability of value types in C# gives it a leg up over languages like JavaScript for performance-sensitive games work. These days v8 and spidermonkey have incredible garbage collectors capable of incremental/parallel collection so people have been able to ship JS-based games on PC+Console, but when it comes to game scripting it's either languages with value types like C#/C++ or languages with mor…
I'm completely uninformed about lua, but why isn't it being used more to build games then? I know it's a popular scripting language for games, but are there any engines that mainly use lua (in the same way Unity uses C#)?