WebGL demo
8th March 2021 10:57am
I recently dug out this old WebGL demo to show someone… I made it 6 years ago! WebGL is such an awesome technology that now works on pretty much all browsers and phones. I just wish there were more compelling uses for it.
https://datasmugglers.com/demos/random-land/
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Hey David it’s been a long time since I thought about iron fell and looked it up. I’m curious is there is another game similar to it out there and if there is can you point me towards it?
-a former IronFell member
Yup, I miss it too. Polytopia is nice, single player but a good way to fill time in. Rimworld is a bit more full on, also single player, and gets preeeety crazy sometimes.
Yeah I have seen both of those and they are nothing like I want to play. Still no way after all these years IronFell is coming back?
I would even advertise the game from my stream if that did anything to help. I’m not a big streamer but I would love to see it back.
I miss ironfell and the community alot. I had hoped for so long the game would come back..
That demo is buttery smooth on my 4 year old phone. I really should dive deeper into webgl some day. Maybe I should try BabylonJS, or PhaserJS. What makes you think that it doesn’t have any compelling uses?
Also, I came here because I checked up on the Ironfell website and saw that it said “coming soon” on it. Are you planning to do something with it?
Hi Alex, thanks for that. Did you play Ironfell 1.0 back in the old days? :)
Yep, I played it quite a bit actually. It was a fun game. I hope to see something similar pop up in the future.
Another thing I wanted to ask was which programming languages you used for the game. I guess the frontend was in JS, but what did you use in the backend?
Hey, the back end was and is Python :) The old frontend was Flash Actionscript which is not longer a thing. The new front end is Swift.