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Game Closure
Company blog · gameclosure.com/bloggamesprogramming
Game Closure is the company blog at gameclosure.com, writing about games and programming. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Game Closure, cross-device HTML5-based multiplayer game SDK”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters mention Game Closure as an HTML5 and JavaScript mobile game development platform, linking its license, beta and blog pages, and compare it with other HTML5 game frameworks.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The Game Closure team is now a part of Playco!
Most-linked posts?
- Game Closure, cross-device HTML5-based multiplayer game SDK4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2011-11-27
- DevKit – A JavaScript framework for mobile Games3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2011-04-27
- Game Closure SDK switches to the Mozilla Public License2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-14
- Game Closure "DevKit" for Mobile HTML5 Games is Open Source2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-02-14
What Hacker News says?
Cool. This sounds a bit like Game Closure ( http://gameclosure.com/ )
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on “Show HN: Ejecta, A Fast, Open Source JavaScript, Canvas Implementation for iOS”Submitted Game Closure releases open source HTML5 game dev kit as a story · 20 points
HN discussionI always like to know how free services like this plan to make money. Their careers page ( http://www.gameclosure.com/careers.html ) says they're hiring and have "top-tier funding," so obviously they're going to need to monetize somehow. Yet I couldn't find a single mention of a paid service or premium offering. Perhaps I didn't look hard enough, but it's unsettling nonetheless.
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on “New open source HTML5 mobile game platform”Submitted Game Closure "DevKit" for Mobile HTML5 Games is Open Source as a story · 13 points
HN discussionWe've dual licensed the DevKit - you can choose either the GPL or our free commercial license: http://www.gameclosure.com/license.html That page is about the GPL licensed version. It's basically saying you're free to develop and release a game with the GPL version but (as per the GPL) you need to release the source. The other option is to use the commercial license. Then you do not have to release the source of your…
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on “New open source HTML5 mobile game platform”Submitted Game Closure as a story · 5 points
HN discussionLooks slick! Also see the blog post: http://www.gameclosure.com/blog/?p=177
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on “New open source HTML5 mobile game platform”Submitted How to add Offline Documentation in 15 Minutes with HTML5 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAlso Game Closure: http://www.gameclosure.com/ http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/17/game-closure-makes-it-a-bre...
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on “IOS games using JavaScriptCore without WebKit”Submitted DevKit – A JavaScript framework for mobile Games as a story · 1 points
HN discussionGameClosure ( http://www.gameclosure.com/ ) looks really good.
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on “Introduction to making HTML5/JavaScript games with Coquette.js”Submitted Game Closure SDK switches to the Mozilla Public License as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHi, we're currently in private beta, but you can apply for access: http://gameclosure.com/beta.html
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on “Game Closure (HTML5) poaches Zynga's Mobile CTO”Submitted Ff.js - A new library for solving the Pyramid of Doom as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe Cocos2d-x (Cocos2d api in C++ with a bunch of supported platforms[1]) has had Cocos2d-HTML5[2] for a while. It uses the same api as their JavaScript bindings and there are some demos of complete games running on both from the same platform. (Disclaimer I am one of the founders of Game Closure) Game Closure provides a complete HTML5/Web/Native game development SDK with a larger focus on tooling than these project…
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on “Cocos2D for HTML5”Submitted Game Closure, cross-device HTML5-based multiplayer game SDK as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'm dabbling in this a bit, currently designing a game as a hobby project. There's a number of frameworks available that can ease development though none are perfect. LimeJs ( http://www.limejs.com/ ) - seems the most mature. Its built upon Google's Closure library. I personally found it a bit cumbersome, though certainly powerful. Optimal performance is obtained by using the Closure compiler. CraftyJs ( http://craf…
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on “Ask HN: Can you write high quality mobile apps in HTML5 yet?”
