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Re: Gameroom

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Post by icebraining »

grogenaut wrote: post #105
DumpOfGenius wrote: post #95

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I don't think they really care about earning money from their original games. They give out team fortress 2 for free, and has been actively maintaining it all these 9 years. They sell all value game as a bundle for like $20 last year. On the other hand. Others like battle.net, origin, uplay are just other game companys trying not to give away 30% cut of their new hot game by selling at valve's platform. They will pro…

This is just called Free to Play. Look up how much money TF2 made on hats.

Yeap. I know many kids who rather spend their allowances and gifts on TF2 items than on new games. Hats, weapons, taunts, all in different combinations for maximum profit.

Re: Gameroom

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Post by daredevildave »

socialist_coder wrote: post #57

You guys are not understanding this at all. Flash and Unity webplayer plugins are being blocked by browsers now. Flash still works for the most part, but Unity doesn't. Facebook is losing game players because of this, and new games are being built in Unity and not Flash, so it's harder for them to launch on Facebook. This solves that problem by letting you compile your game for Facebook Gameroom straight from the Uni…

Please don't associate WebGL being bad with Unity being bad at exporting to WebGL...

PlayCanvas is generating WebGL games that run on mobile and download in only a few megabytes. You can generate great WebGL games today.

Re: Gameroom

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Post by throwaway2048 »

daredevildave wrote: post #132
socialist_coder wrote: post #57

You guys are not understanding this at all. Flash and Unity webplayer plugins are being blocked by browsers now. Flash still works for the most part, but Unity doesn't. Facebook is losing game players because of this, and new games are being built in Unity and not Flash, so it's harder for them to launch on Facebook. This solves that problem by letting you compile your game for Facebook Gameroom straight from the Uni…

Please don't associate WebGL being bad with Unity being bad at exporting to WebGL... PlayCanvas is generating WebGL games that run on mobile and download in only a few megabytes. You can generate great WebGL games today.

that doesn't solve the problem that webGL is both very slow, and is completely nonfunctional for a large amount of users.

https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists

Re: Gameroom

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Post by daredevildave »

throwaway2048 wrote: post #133
daredevildave wrote: post #132

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Please don't associate WebGL being bad with Unity being bad at exporting to WebGL... PlayCanvas is generating WebGL games that run on mobile and download in only a few megabytes. You can generate great WebGL games today.

that doesn't solve the problem that webGL is both very slow, and is completely nonfunctional for a large amount of users. https://www.khronos.org/webgl/wiki/BlacklistsAndWhitelists

Define large? You need a graphics driver more recent than Jan 1, 2009.

And slow compared to what? Flash? Canvas 2D?

Re: Gameroom

#135

Post by qq66 »

exodust wrote: post #113
qq66 wrote: post #97

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As a counterpoint, for the few games I do play, I far prefer to use my real Facebook identity. Words with Friends in particular is most fun when I'm playing against my real friends. I also really like QuizUp.

Dinky little mobile games like words with friends fall into a different category than pc games. They are time-killers, and your gaming identity is not tied to an avatar that kicks ass in a virtual world. Your real identity for mobile games is simply to make finding someone to play the dinky game with easier on your phone.

I understand this, but this is a big gaming category, and may be the ultimate place that Facebook Gameroom succeeds in.

Re: Gameroom

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Post by jakebasile »

herbst wrote: post #120
CaptSpify wrote: post #63

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> It is fast, easy to use, nice sales/cheap in general, downloads are quick. I feel like we're using different clients. My steam client is slow, clunky and often gets in the way of games. Yes, the sales are cheap, and the downloads are quick, but that's irrelevant to the client.

How are the downloads fast? Mine seems stuck on 3-5Mb/s...

Make sure a data center close to you is selected in settings. Sometimes their region detection is incorrect.

Re: Gameroom

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Post by herbst »

jakebasile wrote: post #136
herbst wrote: post #120

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How are the downloads fast? Mine seems stuck on 3-5Mb/s...

Make sure a data center close to you is selected in settings. Sometimes their region detection is incorrect.

Thanks for that. I always assumed its just that slow.

Re: Gameroom

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Post by suprfnk »

kerbs wrote: post #60
barbs wrote: post #59

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Is it just me or is the "Install Now" button broken? I'm on a Mac but I would've assumed I could download the .exe file.

It literally says "Available for Windows 7 and above" with an unmistakable Windows logo :).

I'd say macOS is "above" Windows 7. ;-)

Re: Gameroom

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Post by rubber_duck »

socialist_coder wrote: post #57

You guys are not understanding this at all. Flash and Unity webplayer plugins are being blocked by browsers now. Flash still works for the most part, but Unity doesn't. Facebook is losing game players because of this, and new games are being built in Unity and not Flash, so it's harder for them to launch on Facebook. This solves that problem by letting you compile your game for Facebook Gameroom straight from the Uni…

>Html5 / WebGL is not an option. It's super super slow and doesn't even work for half your players.

Any sources for this ? I know that WebGL adds overhead but for the simplistic kind of games (your run of the mill Unity games) you should have no trouble staying above 30 FPS, especially if you're smart about it and optimize to reduce draw calls. I would assume that most PCs out there have WebGL support by now (at least over 70%) considering how low the requirements are

>Until web assembly is live and has good adoption

I don't see how WebAssembly helps much - it primarily reduces the load time and download size with the binary encoding - but you can get similar levels of perf with ASM.JS and you still need to go trough same WebGL API as the DOM.

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