Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by statico » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 5:28 PM UTC

Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL
blog.artillery.com

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by kkshin » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 5:34 PM UTC

Whoa, that looks really sweet. I especially liked how simple the dev tools looked, is that in the browser as well?

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by justina1 » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 5:42 PM UTC

It's been a while since I've played games like this, but if I could just point my modern browser to a URL, subscribe for a few bucks a month, and start playing, I might just start again.

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by statico » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 5:45 PM UTC

kkshin wrote: post #2

Whoa, that looks really sweet. I especially liked how simple the dev tools looked, is that in the browser as well?

Yep, all of the action you see runs in a browser -- except for the console command that uploads assets to the CDN.

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by MysticFear » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:03 PM UTC

statico wrote: post #4

kkshin wrote: post #2

Whoa, that looks really sweet. I especially liked how simple the dev tools looked, is that in the browser as well?

Yep, all of the action you see runs in a browser -- except for the console command that uploads assets to the CDN.

Do you have a planned payment model for the game, or is it still too early?

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by natmaster » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:05 PM UTC

Congratz Ian! GL;HF

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by sledmonkey » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:09 PM UTC

This looks incredible, well done. Maybe I can end my search for a modern Myth?

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by statico » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:11 PM UTC

MysticFear wrote: post #5

statico wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, all of the action you see runs in a browser -- except for the console command that uploads assets to the CDN.

Do you have a planned payment model for the game, or is it still too early?

Yep, it will indeed be free to play. Sean (Day9) discussed it a little on a Reddit thread a few weeks ago: http://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/1lsgyz/day9_is_ma...

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by monsterix » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:12 PM UTC

Wow! This is mesmerizing.

These posts on HTML5 stuff that pop-up on HN from time to time hint on what is to come on the web in the near term. I think HTML5 is a huge Tsunami gathering energy and steam out there! It will and should beat all these "I-am-the-best" closed systems (already does in some areas) sometime soon, and be on the top.

System agnostic, immersive, inclusive, what not. Love it.

Re: Artillery is building a hardcore RTS with HTML5 and WebGL

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Post by tharshan09 » Thu, Sep 19, 2013, 6:20 PM UTC

This is what I have been waiting for...