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Show HN: I open sourced Athena Crisis, a game built with React and CSS

74 points| cpojer | 1 year ago |cpojer.net

Hey HN! I'm so excited to open source Athena Crisis under the MIT-License and fund contributions to the game and the genre.

If you like the game and want to support its development, please check it out on Steam or on athenacrisis.com.

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swyx|1 year ago

excited to have supported this from the early days! i think people might not be appreciating that this is not just an open source game, but its also an opinionated, heavily-in-use nontrivial example of SOTA javascript tooling steup from one of the world's top JS tooling experts. lots of lessons to learn in there.

seabass-labrax|1 year ago

It looks really fun and remarkably polished! It's hard to stress just how exciting it is to see a commercial video game being developed as FOSS like this. If enough of the back-end code to run a private server could be made available as open source (for FOSS-y LAN/WAN parties) that would be wonderful.

spell-slinger|1 year ago

Thanks @cpojer for this amazingly well crafted, open source love letter to the games I grew up with

anonzzzies|1 year ago

Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!

avree|1 year ago

This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.

ArkimPhiri|1 year ago

Amazing what you can do with React and CSS