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thefinch / Diary-of-Dia

Need something to do while you're stuck at home because of the coronavirus? How about helping to make a game? If that sounds fun, join up and we'll get busy!
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Deciding the tech stack #1

Closed carsonsturtevant closed 4 years ago

carsonsturtevant commented 4 years ago

What technology stack would best suit this type of game? Should it be a mobile based game, web, windows, etc?

Evie-Skinner18 commented 4 years ago

I vote for something mobile or browser based as opposed to Unity/other heavyweight game engine 🤓

carsonsturtevant commented 4 years ago

I vote for something mobile or browser based as opposed to Unity/other heavyweight game engine 🤓

thefinch suggested Phaser.IO. Do you have any experience with that framework? I think it would suit the project well.

thefinch commented 4 years ago

Unity would be great if we were targeting consoles/Steam or anything like that, but the intention of this project is to be relatively simple both for my own sanity (since I'm a web developer not a game developer) and so that it's easy for newbies of all types to get involved with.

As Carson mentioned, I had mentioned https://phaser.io previously since I have a little experience with it. It seemed reasonably easy to work with so I thought it might fit for this. I haven't really done any research for other browser based engines though so I'm still open to suggestions!

Evie-Skinner18 commented 4 years ago

Brill Phaser looks great, no experience with that yet. My game development experience so far has been vanilla JS without the canvas

thefinch commented 4 years ago

Stumbled on this: https://github.com/collections/javascript-game-engines. Looks like there’s a few out there, but Phaser is the 2nd most popular. 1st is Pixi (https://www.pixijs.com/) and while I haven’t tried it before, it looks like it might be a solid option. I believe at one point it was used by Phaser if it’s not still the case.

Evie-Skinner18 commented 4 years ago

Yep happy to go with Pixi no worries!

thefinch commented 4 years ago

Looks like we've settled on Phaser for now.