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Game Closure Tech Helps @LostDecadeGames Port to iOS With Ease
According to a piece in today's Washington Post, the guys at Lost Decade Games have made good use of a beta release of an HTML5 game platform from Game Closure to convert its award-winning "Onslaught! Arena" game from a Chrome browser-based offering to iOS. The developers, who were experiencing extremely sluggish sales through the Chrome App Store, said using the Game Closure tools saved them 75% of the forecast development time for the conversion.
HTML5 game development is still being hampered, at least in terms of cross-platform deployment, by the relatively cumbersome and poorly understood audio support in the emerging specification. The music-inspired Lost Decade offering was disappointing its developers as they began to consider moving it to non-Chrome platforms. It runs fine on the desktop and laptops but not on portable devices where HTML5 implementations lag and are fairly inconsistent in some key ways as far as games go.
This period of time during which HTML5 implementations vary is a great opportunity for companies like Game Closure to step in and not only help developers bridge the gaps but also make a handsome sum of money in the process. Every technology gap is someone's opportunity to shine!
