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by Aardwolf 4167 days ago
Congrats for the game.

Unity3D makes me shudder though. People are publishing Unity3D games on the internet, but on Linux you can't play them because unity refuses to make a webplugin for Linux. One for Mac or one for Windows they of course have.

At least because of that bad experience I have with them (some game on newgrounds looks like good, but oh no, after opening it it turns out it's a unity one instead of flash) makes me HATE the name Unity3D and everything that has to do with it, no matter how good they try to be for the rest.

Them refusing to do the effort of making a Linux webplugin, smears their name.

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I think they announced that they are going to allow publishing to web via HTML and CrapGL at some stage. So you might have something eventually.
What would that publishing method do to the already published things though? If they can make a unity webplugin for Windows and Mac, two completely different systems, it should be possible to make one for Linux as well.

Also, "CrapGL" sounds not so good... not a fan of WebGL?

First word-combination on this page is "cross-language":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenGL

Taking that goodness and making it CrapScript-only is an abomination:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebGL

> If they can make a unity webplugin for Windows and Mac, two completely different systems, it should be possible to make one for Linux as well.

Please share your estimates how much money you can make on a linux plugin vs how much you have to spend to create it?