+1
It'd probably be easy to implement it, why not? It's a cool qol feature.

Oh, I didn't noitice it.

TL;DR Add an updater to factorio. What ? Basically, add an updater to the zip version of the game, that will fetch the latest version from factorio.com, and if factorio isn't updated to the latest version, it will ask the user to update the game (so that it's optional of course). It should be fairl...

Anyway, we use SDL but are not completely built on top of SDL. Meaning, we'd have to port at least rendering to WebGL (or something that can run in browser.) We can't port rendering to SDL, because SDL doesn't provide all the graphics features we need. Yeah, but still doing such boring and hard stu...

posila wrote: ↑

Tue Nov 15, 2022 2:35 pm

The browser wouldn't magically download 1.5 GB of assets faster than the ZIP file, so you'd have to wait for the browser hosted version too

I didn't think about that before xd

posila wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 14, 2022 11:20 pm

Blay wrote: ↑

Mon Nov 14, 2022 9:06 pm

Because being able to play factorio everywhere without installing anything would be cool!

You can already do that by downloadin ZIP package instead of installer.

Either ways, you have to wait.

TL;DR Compile factorio to web assembly and host it on factorio.com. What ? I suggest, that the devs should compile factorio to web assembly and host it on factorio.com for users, that bought the game (web assembly allows you to run an native app in a normal internet browser). That process should be...