8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux, Mac and Windows

Re:8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux... by jcromartie on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @08:26AM (#3589873)

I like how you're using standard HTML elements for the important bits outside of the game's main display. That is a great idea and seems like an efficient way (in terms of level of effort, not reinventing the wheel) to build a UI and tools for a game like this.

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Re:8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux... by ajuc on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @08:49AM (#3589930)

It's also making canvas window smaller, so it runs faster :)

At least when it's using canvas software renderer, 20% of screen size is making a big difference in fps (on my old PC 30 versus 37 fps).

But it would be worth it just for much simpler ui programming.

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Re:8-bit style, old-school adventure game released for Linux... by jcromartie on Tuesday February 14, 2012 @09:45AM (#3590149)

And not just simpler, but way simpler, and way easier to get nice results. Think of all the stuff you get "for free" by using HTML in a modern browser. You'd have to write all this stuff by hand or lean on a game library to implement: text input, input focus, buttons, UI events, styled text (bold, italic, etc.), text shadows, box shadows, skinned UI (CSS).

In fact, I bet big name games will increasingly embed things like WebKit and use HTML5 and CSS for their UIs in the future.

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