Show HN: I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built with React and CSS

#1

Post by cpojer » Tue, May 14, 2024, 9:18 PM UTC

Hey HN! I'm so excited to open source Athena Crisis under the MIT-License and fund contributions to the game and the genre.

If you like the game and want to support its development, please check it out on Steam or on athenacrisis.com.

Show HN: I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built with React and CSS
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#2

Post by swyx » Tue, May 14, 2024, 10:17 PM UTC

excited to have supported this from the early days! i think people might not be appreciating that this is not just an open source game, but its also an opinionated, heavily-in-use nontrivial example of SOTA javascript tooling steup from one of the world's top JS tooling experts. lots of lessons to learn in there.

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#3

Post by anonzzzies » Wed, May 15, 2024, 9:41 AM UTC

Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!

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#4

Post by ArkimPhiri » Wed, May 15, 2024, 11:32 AM UTC

Amazing what you can do with React and CSS

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#5

Post by avree » Wed, May 15, 2024, 3:11 PM UTC

This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.

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#6

Post by seabass-labrax » Thu, May 16, 2024, 5:57 PM UTC

It looks really fun and remarkably polished! It's hard to stress just how exciting it is to see a commercial video game being developed as FOSS like this. If enough of the back-end code to run a private server could be made available as open source (for FOSS-y LAN/WAN parties) that would be wonderful.

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#7

Post by jakubmazanec » Thu, May 16, 2024, 8:35 PM UTC

I can't use https://athenacrisis.com/ in Firefox, I have to kill the tab because of how unresponsive the page is.

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#8

Post by hju22_-3 » Fri, May 17, 2024, 8:49 AM UTC

jakubmazanec wrote: post #7

I can't use https://athenacrisis.com/ in Firefox, I have to kill the tab because of how unresponsive the page is.

Experienced the same on Android with Chrome.

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#9

Post by spell-slinger » Sun, May 19, 2024, 7:50 PM UTC

Thanks @cpojer for this amazingly well crafted, open source love letter to the games I grew up with