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WebViewFeedback
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Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust
You say that being web centric precludes usage on conventional gaming platforms. What about all the games that are PC only anyways? They could use Tauri or whatnot & have incredibly easy time porting to native.
Games such as Battlefield have already used web technology to power much of the game chrome. Taking this a step further doesn't seem like a real constraint. Microsoft themselves are working to extend fast performance webviews to Xbox uwp's. https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/215...
You're also not acknowledging the upside. Plenty of games would love to have an easy-to-make runs-anywhere multi-parryty game. Letting people log in from work or their phone could be a huge advantage to reaching markets. The market of people with access to web browsers is much bigger than the market of console owners!
You're also constraining your thinking to a narrow band in other ways, again ignoring plenty of great potential. Unreal has had huge success gaining entry into all kinds of unexpected spaces; cinema, architecture, events. Engines have a much wider market than just games, and having engines available on a much broader set of modalities than conventional game engines can unlock new use cases. No one's going to build a navigation tool requiring everyone to have a Steam Deck, but if all it takes is a phone then maybe that becomes interesting.
This also seems like an amazing starter kit for education and hobby coders. Wouldn't it be amazing to be able to be a year or two into learning development, and be able to create your own virtual world? That anyone can easily join & access from any device? That potential makes me thrilled.
Maybe this innovation isn't for you & you want to stick to conventional modalities. Fine, great! Don't use this. I for one see a lot of potential & reason for excitement. I think it has plenty of revenue potential, and vast amounts of cool potential.
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Current state of MAUI?
Drag and drop is still broken in WebView2, so all blazor Maui drag and drop is broken. This is still not being fixed by MS https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/2805
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Chrome extensions in .NET web view controls
Add Ons or Extensions with WebView2 (WebView2Feedback#98)
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Sojour 1.0.46.0 has been released!
FIXED! RPG-254 Unbeknownst to me, Microsoft broke the toolbar on the WebView2 component that Sojour uses for displaying PDFs. The toolbar is now visible again and I have also fixed an odd threading issue, where once upon a time, opening a character sheet used to make that character sheet's window unresponsive for the first click. It's now responsive from the get-go.
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Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements next month
Comment on the page point to a few GitHub issues for macOS and Linux support.
Linux: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645...
> Hey all - We don't currently have a timeline for when we would begin this work. Unfortunately it's very unlikely to be soon.
macOS: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/131...
> No updates since @ningccn's comment above. We are continuing to make progress on Mac and haven't begun Linux planning yet.
"Microsoft Teams is getting big performance improvements".... but only for Windows!
Maybe some day we can have WebView2 in Linux[1] and others.
[1] https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
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Issues with Microsoft Edge WebView2 after release 109.0.1518.52
Got some traction over on GitHub, please post your comments there! Microsoft has acknowledged this issue and is tracking: https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/3136
- Microsoft Edge Webview2 Runtime failing on install
- Mircosoft Teams desktop client on Linux is being retired and will be replaced by a progressive web app (running on Chrome/Edge).
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MS Teams Linux client is being retired. To be replaced by a progressive web app
Yep, and edge webview2 uses edge for the most part. Yet there's something specific to the edge webview2 runtime that makes it hard to port even if edge itself is already available on mac/linux. I think it's because it uses some windows specific APIs to expose functionalities that aren't available to regular webviews.
They were planning on maybe releasing the linux port around the end of 2021, as they were prioritizing the mac port first.
But I don’t think even the mac port has been released yet... So it kind of makes sense for the Teams team (ha!) to just not bother with a linux release if the runtime they are developing on isn't even on the release roadmap yet. Though I guess that makes the switch from electron even more confusing.
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge/WebView2Feedback/issues/645
Ambient
- FLaNK Stack Weekly 09 Oct 2023
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Show HN: Ambient, a multiplayer game engine and platform using WASM/WebGPU/Rust
Hi, this is Kuba from Ambient team, I work on Ambient backend.
The servers in question are part of the main Ambient application [0]. The server part is open-source just like the rest of the engine. You can start your own server using native build of Ambient (check cli help for `ambient serve`).
As for the orchestration and creating servers on demand, we are using Kubernetes and Agones [1]. Both of them are open too. We just have a thin API server that receives requests that a server is needed, checks if there's already one running and if not it uses Agones to allocate one.
[0]: https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient
- How do I run multiple "game rooms" in Bevy / Renet / Rapier on the server?
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Bevy and WebGPU
Intriguing development! It's quite refreshing to witness Bevy hopping onto the WebGPU bandwagon. I can't help but wonder about the complexity involved in transitioning an existing codebase from WebGL to WebGPU in such a compressed timeline.
On a similar note, Ambient (https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient) has been on my radar for their utilization of WebGPU, though they seemingly lack a tangible web demo. Anyone have any insights or comparisons to share?
- Ambient 0.2 – Multiplayer games and apps with Rust, WebAssembly and WebGPU
- Ambient – The Rust Multiplayer Game Engine Releases 0.2
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Ambient 0.2: multiplayer UI, sound, clientside WASM, and more
- Finally, our UI framework, Ambient UI, can now be used from guest code. Combined with our networking and ECS, this unlocks an exciting new capability: multiplayer UI!
In the blog post, we walk through the creation of a basic multiplayer beat sequencer using these features. We're excited to see what else the community can cook up :)
- Download: <https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient/releases/tag/v0.2.0>
Download: https://github.com/AmbientRun/Ambient/releases/tag/v0.2.0
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Does anyone here work in gamedev with Rust as their primary language?
I work on Ambient, an open-source platform for streamed[1] multiplayer games written entirely in Rust. We're a Swedish startup that supports remote and we're hiring for self-starters - if you think you can flourish in a startup environment, feel free to apply!
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