News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on SimCity UI Code + DRM. Parent comment

Re:SimCity UI Code + DRM by ErikGelderblom on Monday March 11, 2013 @04:07PM (#5359262)
Quite some game UI's are done in Flash (check out ScaleForm by Autodesk: http://gameware.autodesk.com/scaleform) so using JavaScript seems plausible as well.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SimCity UI Code + DRM by stephengillie on Monday March 11, 2013 @04:58PM (#5359295)
Some older games had the menus fully rendered in openGL. I'm not sure which is better, but I would think our society has more domain experience making menus with flash than with openGL.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:SimCity UI Code + DRM by seanalltogether on Monday March 11, 2013 @10:32PM (#5359683)
exactly, the tooling and skillset for interface design/dev is extremely mature these days, and it probably isn't economical to move people onto custom solutions.
[ Parent | on HN ]