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0 pointsdylz5y ago0 comments

They are not HTML5; they are totally "internals" - the only DOM involved is a <canvas> element or some WebGL element.

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Thanks, dylz. I think I am not interested in high-performance graphics, so I am not sure I am fond of working only with the <canvas>, even with these abstracted game engines.

I might just sit for a day to write beautiful CSS and use animeJS or something like that to go back to DOM approach of doing this.

dylzOP5y ago

FWIW, I am doing something similar right now and I can tell you that making thousands of overlapping divs sucks for performance already on desktop, and is even worse on mobile. I can see why the canvas thing is in use.

Most JS game engines should support firing native events of some sort, like you should theoretically have the ability to call window.confetti() from canvas-rendering game code in response to a victory screen or similar.

2pointsomone5y ago

This is very useful to know, dylz. Thank you!!

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2pointsomone5y ago

Thanks, dylz. I think I am not interested in high-performance graphics, so I am not sure I am fond of working only with the <canvas>, even with these abstracted game engines.

I might just sit for a day to write beautiful CSS and use animeJS or something like that to go back to DOM approach of doing this.

dylzOP5y ago

2pointsomone5y ago

This is very useful to know, dylz. Thank you!!

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