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Kuron
Created : 18 June 2025
Edited : 18 June 2025

JSE & SpiderBasic
Going to go ahead and renew my SpiderBasic license. Combined with JSE should have all bases covered. SB allows for modern sprites and such via WebGL as well as apps. JSE is great for all of the retro & text based stuff. And Adventuron for text adventures.

Agree with Jay, the way forward (if for no other reason than to keep your sanity) is to shoot for web-based software. It just works on any platform, no deployment issues with false positives from AV software.

Not used the Mac version of SB's IDE, but it does have one and should work well.

I can host the games on Itch.io or my own site. AFAIK, the game below was written in SB and was well-received. Also lots of traditional games have been done in SB and been impressive.

http://www.soccer-trainer.com/soccer-trainer.php

I have a couple of games in mind that I am working on in the board games genre, that would make a good online port using SB and in the style and complexity of the game above.

Toss in Pico8 and some other retro targets, and I am happy. Done with straight deployments for Windows. MS has destroyed it with DPI issues and false positives (even if digitally signed).

 

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