This would be better if it was a discussion of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them, rather than simply a link to the game. :)

Thanks for the feedback! I wasn't sure if hacker news would be interested at all and was unsure what best to share. I'll write a blog with challenges and lessons learned.

Yup. Some remarkable code snippets would be cool.

steam helps a lot in the most important part which is monetizing an apparently good product, judging by the reviews.

Steam's market power is huge and extremely important for having any visibility at all.

Yes, please give some insight into what went into it.

How many people were part of the project?

How long have you guys been coding?

Challenges with it being Electron based?

Did you use a JS framework?

Thoughts on Steam, early acces, etc?

I am very curious to know about the tech stack used as well.

Currently I am writing a pure-JavaScript engine using the HTML5 canvas because packaging for electron gets complex with some of the popular dependencies for other HTML5 game engines.

No game engine was used. I render directly to canvas. Using CoffeeScript for our custom engine. Electron is super thin layer to put it on Steam.

I'll prepare a blog post and will share more info there. Sorry for jumping the gun here. I should have been better prepared.

There's an episode of roguelike radio with the developers of this game:

http://www.roguelikeradio.com/2016/02/episode-115-curious-ex...

"Topics Discussed:

The procedural 19th Century "Jules Verne etc" expedition simulator that is The Curious Expedition, currently in alpha / early access on Steam or via the Humble widget

How the roguelike mix of procedural content and permadeath helps enable the exploration gameplay

Johannes and Riad's experience at Yager Development in Germany, where they worked on Spec Ops: The Line

Minimalist presentation and text to encourage player imagination

Development history of the game

Representation of women and people of colour in a game set in a sexist and racist time, and highlighting figures that popular history often forgets

Giant crabs, dinosaur steeds, and other fantastical elements that add colour to the world

Multilayered goal design and how these integrate with the exploration mechanics

Sanity and rivals acting as hunger clocks

Making combat optional

Communicating theme through unique items

Upcoming features and future plans for the game

When the game will be "complete"

Plans for modding support and having the community add to the game

Vague plans for future games and staying as sustainable independent developers"

Games can be some very large complex projects. Did you guys write it in javascript or some other language and compile to js?

If you guys did just write in js did you use any other tooling for features like modules?

The game looks cool, and I'm thinking about buying it. It's nice to show that electron is a viable platform for games, because you easily gain cross platform compatibility with linux / mac.

Its is written in CoffeeScript. I started about 4 years ago working on it. At this point I would probably just use JS. No specific frameworks or module architecture was used.

Their AMA Reddit

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/50ax32/we_left_aaa_to...

More details, please. Right now it's just a link to steam.

Yes, sorry I wasn't sure what the right amount of information is for this platform. I see I jumped the gun a bit. I'll make a proper blog post with detailed information.

Great relaxing game that is still challenging and different with every playthrough

I've had a lot of fun with this game and agree that it would be nice to hear more in this post about how it was made.

Yes, sorry about that. I see this post was already (rightly) flagged, so I'll do a proper blog post and will repost when it is done.

Cool I played this game a bit and it was very fun. Looking forward to full release.

Huh. I almost thought this would be Screeps, but no! Interesting...

How large was your marketing budget?

Around $5000. Most of that went into having a small booth at Gamescom.

I did not know it is possible to use a runtime environment, some platform libraries and a scripting language to make a game!