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

Shown by cpojer on May 14, 2024. Click the card to turn it over.

74points

8comments

#1,030of 3,515 in 2024

Top 30%of 2024 by points

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DebatedReal support and real criticism

5 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 8 comments about the project. Thread score +0.33.

Execution: 3 for, 0 againstIdea: 2 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 2 against

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Polished and fun game
From 2 comments
- 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…
  seabass-labrax on HN
- Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!
  anonzzzies on HN
Well-crafted JavaScript tooling example
From 2 comments
- 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,…
  swyx on HN
- Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!
  anonzzzies on HN
Impressive use of React and CSS
From 1 comment
- Amazing what you can do with React and CSS
  ArkimPhiri on HN

Release backend server code for private LAN/WAN games
From 1 comment
- 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…
  seabass-labrax on HN

Advance Wars
From 1 comment
- This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.
  avree on HN