missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
Porting two existing titles is hardly what I would consider a new golden age.
Browser games peaked in the 00s-10s as the most accessible place to publish a simple indie project. It was simple and easy for beginner developers to just make something and put it out there, and for those that took off there was a decent pipeline to monetize a hit by licensing it to sites that would share a cut of ad revenue.
But now, mobile and Steam have replaced that as the go-to target for developers. They've gotten to a point where they're just as accessible to develop for, and if you want to make a living off your work you'll have a much better shot that way.
Plenty of great tools still exist for HTML5 development, if developers wanted to they could, and some do. Itch.io has a good amount of new browser games, they exist.
But there's never going to be anything as big as Newgrounds or Kongregate. Those days are gone for good.
Beacon@fedia.io 1 day ago
https://poki.com/
https://developers.poki.com/
And
https://crazygames.com/
https://developer.crazygames.com/
Rozz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
Most of crazy games is ad-riddled ports of ad-riddled mobile games with no depth. It’s hard to find good games there.
missingno@fedia.io 1 day ago
Will never be anywhere close to what Newgrounds and Kongregate were at their peak.