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I tried plain WebAudio gamedev in 2021, making a small 2d game library with no dependencies. Web Audio was the only place where I eventually caved and broke my no deps rule and used Howler.js instead.

I forget the exact reason but I think autoplay on mobile devices was the thing I couldn't figure out, and howler had some workaround.

If I did the project again I'd just copy paste the 3 lines or whatever that Howler uses for the workaround and bring dependencies back to zero.

I'm working on a visual novel, and I suspect 'low tech' people will enjoy playing it. I also suspect 'low tech' people don't have steam installed on their computers, but they will know how to click a link and play a game in their browser.

I'm hoping to sell the game through Stripe on my own domain as well as on Steam. Time will tell whether I finish this game and whether the Web build defeats the Steam build.

I'm hoping Web wins.

Not really, other than the usual causal stuff, for console like games, only streaming.