Curious Expedition
Games
roguelike exploration game
SHOW HN2016
Curious Expedition
We sold over 30,000 units of our HTML5/Electron game on Steam
store.steampowered.comHow HN took it
7 positive, 5 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.28.
Docs: 1 for, 2 againstExecution: 2 for, 0 againstPricing: 1 for, 0 againstIdea: 1 for, 0 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Fun, relaxing and different on every playthrough
From 3 comments
Great relaxing game that is still challenging and different with every playthrough
gr3yh47 on HNCool I played this game a bit and it was very fun. Looking forward to full release.
mesozoic on HNI've had a lot of fun with this game and agree that it would be nice to hear more in this post about how it was made.
nrjames on HN
Shows Electron is viable for cross-platform games
From 1 comment
Games can be some very large complex projects. Did you guys write it in javascript or some other language and compile to js? If you guys did just write in js did you use any…
tshannon on HN
Objections
Post is just a link to Steam without details on how it was built
From 3 comments
This would be better if it was a discussion of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them, rather than simply a link to the game. :)
jstanley on HNMore details, please. Right now it's just a link to steam.
ythl on HNI've had a lot of fun with this game and agree that it would be nice to hear more in this post about how it was made.
nrjames on HN
Requests
Write-up of challenges, lessons learned and tech stack
From 3 comments
This would be better if it was a discussion of the challenges you faced and how you overcame them, rather than simply a link to the game. :)
jstanley on HNYes, please give some insight into what went into it. How many people were part of the project? How long have you guys been coding? Challenges with it being Electron based? Did…
sboselli on HNI am very curious to know about the tech stack used as well. Currently I am writing a pure-JavaScript engine using the HTML5 canvas because packaging for electron gets complex…
CryoLogic on HN
Code snippets
From 1 comment
Yup. Some remarkable code snippets would be cool.
baristaGeek on HN
Questions
What was the marketing budget
From 1 comment
How large was your marketing budget?
ayyn0n0n0 on HN
How big was the team
From 1 comment
Yes, please give some insight into what went into it. How many people were part of the project? How long have you guys been coding? Challenges with it being Electron based? Did…
sboselli on HN