Building Steam Games with React
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Sep 4th, 2019
Building Steam Games with React
👇 Download Show✏️ Edit Show NotesIn this episode, Scott and Wes talk with Drew Conley about building games with Javascript.
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1:58 - What is Danger Crew?
5:25 - Did you have a background in game dev before this?
8:36 - What were the initial resources you went to to make a game in React?
10:27 - How much of it is Canvas?
13:06 - What other libraries are you using?
14:00 - How did you lay out the environments?
16:35 - How is text rendered?
22:40 - How did you do all of the animation?
26:08 - What performance issues did you run into?
27:31 - How do you handle user states and saves?
29:21 - Is there any server side aspect?
30:42 - What was the process for creating the level editor?
34:38 - How did you publish the game / wrap it as an executable to sell?
38:16 - How do you update it?
39:43 - How difficult was creating the game logic?
41:20 - The dev theme in the game is super prominent, did that make working on it more fun?
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