Hacker Newsnew | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submitlogin
Ask HN: CSS/JS/SVG game IDE?
7 points by stuartjmoore on Feb 6, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments
Does there exist an IDE for making games using open web standards (read: not flash)?

Do you think there is a market for a website to allow users to create, host, and share these (presumably free) games?

Of course, the adoption of the newer standards is what really stands in the way, but I've seem some great things made in Javascript, and I'd just like to see them expanded upon.



Effect Games has something like this: http://www.effectgames.com/effect/

It was posted to HN a while back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=986196


If such an IDE was built, it would pretty much mean the end of Flash on the long term. So my guess is that there is a market for an open standards IDE.


How about in the form of a browser plugin. Think Firebug. That would be completely amazing and it's definitely possible.


It both saddens and annoys me that programming for the web requires: A styling syntax, a markup syntax, an ugly programming language, and a xml based graphic format.




Guidelines | FAQ | Lists | API | Security | Legal | Apply to YC | Contact

Search: