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Game Closure raises $12M for HTML5 cross-platform games

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This is the company I moved to silicon valley to work for, and it has been a blast. I might be biased, but I think we've got a really great crew at Game Closure. Deciding to move out west was the best decision I could have made.

The past year has been a wild ride. I see now why many people enjoy the startup scene so much. Not only is it challenging... it's a hell of a lot of fun.

Congrats! Looking forward to amazong browser centric gaming.

Question: Does GameClosure have any plans to use WebGL?

Also wanted to give you a heads up re: Art Hack Weekend SF http://www.gaffta.org/2012/02/13/art-hack-weekend-sf-a-webgl... See you there, perhaps?

Since you work there, can you provide a little detail on this article's claim that Closure reduces development time from 6 months to six weeks. Is that just by avoiding different teams for different platforms?

Sure. On our website, you'll see a demo or two (admittedly out of date) of how our platform generally works: Write your games once, using HTML5 and Javascript, and they'll run anywhere with essentially no code modification: Browser, mobile, tablet. There's two primary reasons it's a lot faster to work with our tech: First, for the reason I mentioned above (write-once, run anywhere). Second, writing at a higher level of abstraction (JavaScript vs. Objective-C and Java) makes iteration much faster. Our SDK builds on that: we've worked hard to extract great performance from javascript on mobile phones specifically, and we provide a higher-level UI framework which cuts down a lot of the development time.

How do you handle controls on the different sized screens? A button on an iPad != a button on a iPhone and must be scaled accordingly. Congratulations on the funding 12mil is a big round.

Oh, and of any of you are in the area, every Thursday at 8pm we have a game night at our office. You should stop by!

I'm really glad to see these guys progress. Michael Carter seems like a great guy.

Carter emailed me last year and we chatted a bit about Game Closure, but I declined any sort of interview because I didn't want to move to SV. At the time he mentioned they were bootstrapping, and its great to see how far along they've come.

These days as a side project I'm developing my own set of HTML5 Canvas games that I plan to open source to that others can have good examples and tutorials to start making their own cross-platform browser games[1]. I'd really love to see any HTML5 canvas games take off.

Hopefully some day in the future we'll be helping each other, maybe even more directly. :)

[1] (Here's not the place, so current progress is in my profile)

Congrats!

My dentist is next to their office. I love mountain view.

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