PixelDrawr: Investigate using WebGL

JoshuaKGoldberg commented 7 years ago

Upside: if done well, the game would probably be much more graphically performant. Downside: technically much more detailed, and browser support might suffer.

thadguidry commented 2 years ago

Would integrating PixiJS be an option here?

JoshuaKGoldberg commented 2 years ago

Hmm, good question @thadguidry! I'm leaning towards no for a couple of reasons:

EightBittr is roughly dependency-free as-it-is (it's really just React for the non-game UI, as I'm going to phase out MobX from UserWrappr soon)
PixiJS is awesome and powerful which means it has a lot of code that would be unused. https://bundlephobia.com/package/pixi.js@6.2.1 shows it as having quite a lot of kB of download time

I wouldn't object to an investigation that shows it being worth that extra size. But there are probably better issues to tackle sooner.

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