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Great game! How did you do the cross platform? Xamarin, native or something else??

It's c++ with SDL and as little platform-specific code as I can get away with. eg. low latency audio on Android was impossible using stock SDL.

The web version was originally a straight recompile with emscripten but it was way too slow so it's a hybrid approach where the board engine is emscripten and the UI is rewritten with HTML/canvas.

Any plans for a Windows Phone port? :) https://forums.libsdl.org/viewtopic.php?t=10576&sid=2a7ec2c7...

I've considered it, and probably will do it one day for fun just to see what the platform is like.

Looking back would it have been easier to do the whole things in JS/HTML/CSS?

Not at all! This is a mobile game and getting 60 FPS on mobile in a browser is not trivial, even with graphics as simple as these. But natively? Ridiculously easy.

The game is simple/hard and beautiful.

I am just curious. What engine and development tools did you use? If I like a game, I want to know the backend tools that was used for developing.

That'd be great :)

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