At 8/21/15 05:34 PM, TomFulp wrote:
At 8/21/15 05:02 PM, NeonSpider wrote:
Speaking of which, I'm really not sure why Newgrounds doesn't support Java as a browser gaming platform people can use.
Stuff that requires the JAVA plug-in has never sat very well with me, it just always feels like it has more complications and issues than Flash and even Unity. HOWEVER, a lot of that is in the past when NG was dedicated to Flash, so it isn't as much out of the question nowadays... I do think JAVA has been eliminated from Chrome, though. Are there that many JAVA web games out there, particularly by indie types vs MMOs and stuff?
I'm not sure that there's any organized movement, per-se, but you'd certainly open up the Newgrounds games portal to a larger pool of potential indie games developers. An extremely large one. Java tends to be one of the first languages taught to budding new programmers in just about all universities these days. That means many of them would be right at home coding Java applets.
I can't promise you'd all of a sudden have tons of people using it, but if word got out and university students saw there was a place to submit their games online for people to review and such, it's possible it could gain traction. Of course Newgrounds will mostly be known for Flash, as it should, but as long as we're on the subject of other web gaming platforms...
I do think it would be nice to filter via platform though, because I know not everyone will want to play/view things from every platform nor even can they. Just like you can filter out the Adult content, it would be nice to have a filter for each platform type as well although I realize changes like that take time to implement. You could default to all types allowed but user settings could unselect types they don't want.