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Re:Show HN: I ported an XBox Live Indie Game to HTML5 in 2 d... by soup10 on Saturday April 14, 2012 @05:25PM (#3842037)
These kinds of sprite based games have been around for decades and used to be developed on hardware orders of magnitude less powerful. The fact that such a thing would ever have performance problems on modern hardware is a joke and shows how backwards web development is.
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Re:Show HN: I ported an XBox Live Indie Game to HTML5 in 2 d... by mathgladiator on Saturday April 14, 2012 @09:44PM (#3842492)
I like to think that web development with all these new "features" enable people a nice playground to get hooked. While I'm disappointed that the there is no easy "mode 13" to get started with fun graphics programming, I'm optimistic that a platform is getting built that enables people to iterate on making things fun that will then drive people to go deeper in the stack.
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