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		ben-schaaf on Nov 19, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam Most websites don't run well on even high end hardware. There's most certainly a performance tradeoff using a browser, especially for something as performance sensitive as a game.

soylentgraham on Nov 20, 2019 [–]

There's a performance trade off using the DOM. If you only draw to canvases and execute javascript, the browser becomes a very fast engine.

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