As a developer, am I required to use your engine to publish on ga.me? What are your quality standards for allowing a game onto the site?
Ga.me – new 'online game console' now in open beta
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#12None of the games worked in Firefox for me. Loaded OK but couldn't interact with the canvas
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#13None of the games worked in Firefox for me. Loaded OK but couldn't interact with the canvas
All the games require WebGL, does this page work for you?
http://get.webgl.org/
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#14Non-physical console?
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#15I opened this and stared at it like an idiot for a minute. Am I behind the times to expect something on the main page of a site that says what it actually is? Clicking through the tiny About link I found at the bottom of the page, this appears to be a platform for monetizing web-based games, at least some of which are WebGL-based (which I found out after clicking through one of them and being told, once again, that C…
I think your just used to browsing one too many SaaS startup websites. Not every website needs a introduction and breakdown of features, especially for a game site where its target audience already knows what they are looking at.
That's not really what I usually look at, and I believe most sites will at least tell you what you're seeing (particularly when their presentation is just a gallery of thumbnails).
Anyway, given the other questions already posted in this thread, I'd say it's warranted and constructive criticism for whoever might be running this.
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#16If this is going where I can see it going, this is great; Please don't fuck it up. :)
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#17you mean like the steambox ?
ooooooooh
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#18I opened this and stared at it like an idiot for a minute. Am I behind the times to expect something on the main page of a site that says what it actually is? Clicking through the tiny About link I found at the bottom of the page, this appears to be a platform for monetizing web-based games, at least some of which are WebGL-based (which I found out after clicking through one of them and being told, once again, that C…
It's a game website that thinks mobile doesn't manner. Bright future indeed.
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#19Slightly unrelated random thought. Is there no API for interfacing with a games controller on the Web?
Re: Ga.me – new 'online game console' now in open beta
#20Slightly unrelated random thought. Is there no API for interfacing with a games controller on the Web?
There is but support for gamepads is very limited and not widely supported.