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Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by jasonkester on Sunday September 05, 2010 @04:34AM (#1664228)
It's not a product. It's a landing page.

Could we stop voting stuff like this onto the front page? I'm sure it'll be cool when they actually build it, but right now it's just an hour's worth of brainstorming and 20 minutes of somebody's time in photoshop. There's absolutely nothing to see, so it's not of any value to us now.

I know that everybody considers this as a Minimum Viable Product, and that you're supposed to launch something like this for every idea you have. That's cool. And I know you're supposed to get as much exposure to it as you can.

But please please please, don't spam up HackerNews with stuff like this. I want to think we're better than that.

Can we make a policy of only submitting things that exist?

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by aakour on Sunday September 05, 2010 @08:15AM (#1664397)
Hi Jason, I'm the head of development at Rocket Pack.

The reason we did the video and the website is because the product exists, and we're now at the point where we'd like to get a few pilot projects with other game development companies going.

We've been working hard on this for half a year now. If you can accomplish the same in 20 minutes with Photoshop, more power to you.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by jasonkester on Sunday September 05, 2010 @09:29AM (#1664473)
By all means, put something out that we can play with then. I can't come up with any reason why you'd lock this away behind a landing page if it's even at alpha quality.

Let it out to the world. People will use it. People will tell you what you need to do before you can release it as a product. It's amazing how much good feedback you can get just by letting people try your thing out.

You're doing yourself a disservice by disguising your thing as vaporware if it actually exists.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by nailer on Sunday September 05, 2010 @07:06AM (#1664341)
We have discussed many app on HN before they've been released, including the Atlas, the iPhone, and more.

A product not yet ready to be released clearly does not equate to that product not existing.

Nor does being angry entitle you to infer someone else is somehow lying when they say the app being demonstrated exists.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by gte910h on Sunday September 05, 2010 @11:36AM (#1664653)
Displaying a landing page with some photo-shopped images "demonstrating" things is a very prolific "idea testing" technique.

While this appears to be a false positive brought on by their lack of a download page, I do not think the person you're replying to was out of line for thinking that's what this is.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by catshirt on Sunday September 05, 2010 @05:00AM (#1664247)
there is a 3 minute demo of the product on the front page. perhaps they put it up after your reply. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPVhPGOLe7c
Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by jasonkester on Sunday September 05, 2010 @05:20AM (#1664265)
Right. There's also screenshots, bulleted lists, and a feature chart.

There's no product though. There's nothing to download, nothing to sign up for, no way to actually get the thing and try it out.

Hopefully one day they'll get the product to the point where we can try it out and have a meaningful discussion about it. Until then, there's no reason for it to be here.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by nailer on Sunday September 05, 2010 @07:08AM (#1664343)
Er, the reason it's here is we can see the demo, discuss it, talk about competitors, decide if we think it's any good, etc.

Please, just stop posting. It's rude to the guys who made this. They're not liars, they're just showing off a WIP.

Re:Rocket Engine - plugin-free browser game development by dmoney on Monday September 06, 2010 @01:21AM (#1665948)
nothing to sign up for

Not sure if they added this since you posted, but there is a form to give them your name and e-mail which, presumably, will result in them sending you a link to download the trial.