4kg has been targeting the Chrome Web Store exclusively since it was relaunched last December.
This is important: There will always be a packaged app version of 4kg available on the Chrome Web Store. And Chrome is still the only browser I’m working against.
However, I’ve been giving more thought to the decision to make it available exclusively on that service. Mostly, it was done in the name of simplifying testing, as well as alleviating hosting concerns.
However, now I think most browsers are accelerating and meeting 4kg’s requirements. Hosting isn’t an issue as long as I can use GitHub pages. As 4kg steps closer to completion every day, I’ve made the decision to offer a full, hosted website version of 4kg, available for anyone and any browser to visit. (Although obviously, the browser will need to support 4kg’s feature set if they wish to play it.)
This live website should support Firefox 4 and 5, Internet Explorer 9 and 10, Opera 11, Safari 5, and Chrome (obviously) if everything goes smoothly. Even the mobile browsers too, maybe, Akihabara is pretty good for that.
Aside from that, I’m also curious about other platforms, mobile definitely, but Facebook as well. And maybe even desktop OS’s (through Steam.) But I don’t know if I’ll have the time or ability to port 4kg to every platform, so I’m asking you to help me select the priority of platforms I should port 4kg to.
(Ports to mobile platforms will most likely use PhoneGap Build; ports to Windows/Mac might use Mozilla’s Prism or similar — although I’m unfamiliar with the process of listing games on Steam, I don’t imagine it’s terribly difficult right now; and there are already Akihabara games on Facebook, so doing a straight port shouldn’t be too difficult.)
This is not a guarantee of anything. The only platforms I am confirming are the Chrome Web Store (packaged) and the live HTML5 site (hosted.) It may be that even making the live website version work properly is much harder than I imagine.
The poll is multiple choice, so choose any combination you want. If you have another platform in mind, you can write that too.
The poll will end 11:59pm next Friday, August 5.
