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MadeofTin / bellows-riddles-base

Where I keep track of the Bellow's Riddle Quest data so I can share it with my team
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Could we just build the whole thing in javascript/html5? #3

Closed MadeofTin closed 10 years ago

MadeofTin commented 10 years ago

Hey, So you are way good at javascript and when I was trying to build the UX testing thing I realised this game would be pretty easy just to do in pure javascript making it pretty easy to port to different platforms and even resolutions.

I think you are using react. Since, well, you probably wrote it, or at least parts of it. But could it access parse's javascript libraries? I am showing my inexperience here but they base their implementation off of backbone. Could the two interoperate? One sounds more backend and one more front end UI focused, but I don't know. It sounds like a lot of work to to get React pulling from parse. Would it be? Again, just trying to make your life easier. I have a habit of "weakly holding strong opinions" so I don't mind adapting. I just keep moving forward and hope something works in the end. At any point I go astray. Just let me know. Also, my favorite type of work is the kind that makes it so you have to do less work.

Cheers, James

MadeofTin commented 10 years ago

Found this! https://github.com/petehunt/ReactHack

Prolly could save some time.

pcardune commented 10 years ago

short answer: yes. React is just for frontend. You can integrate it with all other javascript libraries. There will be some limitations on mobile, like doing fancy 3d animations, and some mobile UI components might be hard to implement in a way that looks native, like date selectors. But from what I've seen, you could build a pretty good prototype with just javascript that would run on android and iOS and web.

MadeofTin commented 10 years ago

Not really looking for fancy 3d animations anyway. At least on with the UI. I want to focus on the assets and have the UI be as non-distracting as possible. You think it would be helpful if I started it with a fork of https://github.com/petehunt/ReactHack. Or just keep building what I am building in the test area?

MadeofTin commented 10 years ago

Ps. Matt Gallagher just told me about Digital Ocean for hosting the dev server. I was using Linode before. Just setting it up now. Seem pretty happy with it so far.