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

by cpojer on 5/14/24, 9:18 PM with 8 comments

Hey HN! I'm so excited to open source Athena Crisis under the MIT-License and fund contributions to the game and the genre.

If you like the game and want to support its development, please check it out on Steam or on athenacrisis.com.

  • by swyx on 5/14/24, 10:17 PM

    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, heavily-in-use nontrivial example of SOTA javascript tooling steup from one of the world's top JS tooling experts. lots of lessons to learn in there.
  • by seabass-labrax on 5/16/24, 5:57 PM

    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 back-end code to run a private server could be made available as open source (for FOSS-y LAN/WAN parties) that would be wonderful.
  • by jakubmazanec on 5/16/24, 8:35 PM

    I can't use https://athenacrisis.com/ in Firefox, I have to kill the tab because of how unresponsive the page is.
  • by spell-slinger on 5/19/24, 7:50 PM

    Thanks @cpojer for this amazingly well crafted, open source love letter to the games I grew up with
  • by anonzzzies on 5/15/24, 9:41 AM

    Very cool! Didn't know about the game , but this is all pretty excellent even when just reading the code!
  • by avree on 5/15/24, 3:11 PM

    This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.
  • by ArkimPhiri on 5/15/24, 11:32 AM

    Amazing what you can do with React and CSS