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infinitebit • today at 5:29 AM • 2 replies • view on HN

i love this. i don’t understand why web games like this aren’t more prevalent

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Benjamin_Dobell • today at 5:37 AM

They are. There's a LOT of web games on itch.io. It's just the typical challenge with over saturated markets: publicity.

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dalemhurley • today at 6:08 AM

Competition. Marketing. Expectations.

In the 1990's and early 2000's I loved building web and flash games, people had lower expectations, getting notice was easy (StumbleUpon etc) and there wasn't a lot other choices.