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Carnage in Space: Crucible
5 years ago

Rant: NW.js vs. macOS


Shout out to NW.js version 0.40.1 for making Crucible SO much easier to release on Mac than Ignition ever was.

On Ignition, I had to do all this stupid crap on my Mac virtual machine, and copy a specific set of resources from my one version of the game that actually ran into each subsequent release. Now all I have to do is stick in the app icon and the game just works on mac!

All this is just to say that the release process for my games is not an easy task, and it makes me miss the gold old days when Ignition was just going to be a browser-based game and I just had to upload each update to my website over FTP.

Ah, well. At least things are a little better now with the sequel.

Rant over.

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