Ninjadoodle Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 Hi @enpu / Panda People I've been thinking about a project I would eventually like to start, that would only be available on Steam / X-Box One and possibly other consoles that allow 'wrapped' HTML5. I've noticed that the achievements and collectible cards etc are a big thing with Steam games. Is Panda a viable option for a project like this? Would I need some sort of plugin to unlock Steam achievents etc. Would the X-Box performance using Panda be decent? (I don't have one to test on yet). Any thoughts would be awesome! Thank you! khleug35 and Wolfsbane 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pstrejczek Posted September 18, 2018 Share Posted September 18, 2018 This is an interesting topic, and I have searched myself for information about HTML5 games on Steam. You can create a PC, Mac or Linux executable from HTML5 game, but for achievements etc. you need to integrate Steam SDK which is basically a C++ library. Guys who made Game Dev Tycoon made a node.js addon, to expose Steamworks API for Javascript and node.js https://github.com/greenheartgames/greenworks And there are various (quite impressive) games published on steam using this library: https://github.com/greenheartgames/greenworks/wiki/Apps-games-using-greenworks For X-Box One you use the HTML5 to UWP wrapper, which is a different beast. Guides on how this could be done can be found on Microsoft pages. Microsoft encourages to make UWP apps and games with HTML5 technologies. It would be probably a lot of work to make export with these technologies straight from Panda2 easy. @enpu would have to decide if it is worth it. It would make Panda 2 very versatile - no question. Anyway. For the moment I think that if the main target for my game would be Steam or game consoles I would use a different framework/engine (Monogame perhaps, or Love2D - which is an absolute pleasure to work with - if Steam only). The performance would be better and integration would be probably much easier. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjadoodle Posted September 18, 2018 Author Share Posted September 18, 2018 Hi @pstrejczek Thank you very much for the awesome links! I really appreciate you taking your time to do that Ultimately I would love Panda to be a one stop shop, but at the same time - I don't really want to mess with low level implementation (for achievements etc.) I would be interested what @enpu thinks about this, and whether something like a Steamworks plugin / XBox export made easier could be added to the roadmap, or if its even viable. Thanks again! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjadoodle Posted September 20, 2018 Author Share Posted September 20, 2018 Hi @enpu I just wanted to bump this topic in case you've missed it, since I would love to hear what your thoughts are :) pstrejczek 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjadoodle Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 bump Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
enpu Posted September 26, 2018 Share Posted September 26, 2018 Steam plugin is totally possible and already added to the roadmap Wolfsbane, Ninjadoodle and pstrejczek 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ninjadoodle Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 @enpu - Thanks for that! That is very good news Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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