Show HN: 90s.dev - game maker that runs on the web
Published on: 2025-07-01 11:58:03
# Finally releasing 90s.dev
I’ve mentioned this a bunch on HN and I’ve been working on it nonstop since about February. So I’m pretty excited to finally make it public.
# Feedback noted!! Thanks everyone on HN for your feedback. It’s clear that I launched this too soon, that the product isn’t focused enough, and that it needs concrete tutorials. I’ll work on these and come back in a few months.
# The dream
Ever since I was a kid, I wanted to recreate Warcraft II or at least Warcraft I. But for decades, I never got around to it. One day this February, I just got up at 2am and started writing code. I was tired of waiting. So I wrote and wrote and wrote.
But instead of making a game, or even a game engine, or even the game maker tools, I found myself making an API for making game maker tools and a game engine and a game. It turns out, I’m really an API designer at heart. I guess I always kinda knew this.
Eventually it evolved into an API around a 320x180 canvas for building and shar
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