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Comment by mildtrepidation | Hacker News Reader

I opened this and stared at it like an idiot for a minute. Am I behind the times to expect something on the main page of a site that says what it actually is?

Clicking through the tiny About link I found at the bottom of the page, this appears to be a platform for monetizing web-based games, at least some of which are WebGL-based (which I found out after clicking through one of them and being told, once again, that Chromium isn't interested).

So... new Newgrounds. Except with microtransactions. Unless I missed something?

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It looks like a re-branding of Turbulenz platform (that has been around for a while, actually started as custom executable plugin, then moved onto JS+WebGL).

It's basically game-as-service platform where you get a game engine for free (it was recently open sourced), and if you decide to host your game on their servers, you pay them 30% of revenue fees.

This ga.me site looks like a new frontend for the end-users for accessing games published on this platform.

Here is a "sell" page for developers with more info about platform features:

http://biz.turbulenz.com/turbulenz

I think your just used to browsing one too many SaaS startup websites. Not every website needs a introduction and breakdown of features, especially for a game site where its target audience already knows what they are looking at.

That's not really what I usually look at, and I believe most sites will at least tell you what you're seeing (particularly when their presentation is just a gallery of thumbnails).

Anyway, given the other questions already posted in this thread, I'd say it's warranted and constructive criticism for whoever might be running this.

This was exactly my reaction. For a site that "just launched", I find it amusing that it doesn't explain what it is.

Although I'm not sure if the problem is the lack of an about page or something about the layout. Other websites such as steamstore, origin and gamejolt also don't have any information about their service on the front page (gog.com is an exception to this).

It's a game website that thinks mobile doesn't manner. Bright future indeed.

Serious or ironic?

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