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I see a lot of game devs in discord experimenting with Electrobun to release desktop games.

I think it's going to eat a piece of the Electron pie for Steam indie games.

Most stay with bun after seeing how fast and seamless it is to run typescript games with instant auto reload:

bun --watch game.ts

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I do a lot of web development, and even if we set the great tooling aside for a moment, Bun is still a major improvement (a real leap, I’d say) when it comes to performance.

Are many games built with Electron ...? I know there are a few HTML5 games, crosscode was the first one I recall seeing that really pushed it. Aren't most small games Unity or Godot?

CrossCode is a marvel in that they had to build their own runtime: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41155807

I think the most famous Electron game is Vampire Suvivors, but it has since been ported to Unity.

What Discord server are you referring to? Would love to join.

also wondering about this. it sure isn't in electrobuns own discord server. i'm in that one and its mostly Q&A (with Yoav doing most of the answering and a couple people like me doing most of the questioning, ha)

this is the first i'm hearing about games being built with electron / web tech too, let alone electrobun. i thought most game devs would just go for unity or godot

node has watch mode and runs TypeScript files now too.

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