Don't Judge My Fonts, Judge My Willingness to Tinker with HTML5


This was originally intended to be a quick project to reinvigorate my enthusiasm Game Maker and to finish Harvestman's <i>real</i> first project, which has yet to be officially announced. Seeing that Game Maker has an HTML5 export option, I thought it would be a simple thing to have this goblin name generator run in browser.

I was wrong.

I spent an hour or so trying to figure out what I had done wrong. Everything had been working just fine in my Windows build, but the entire GUI was missing from the HTML5 version. Some problems remain unsolved and are possibly things that I borked myself, but I'm ready to lay most of the blame on a shoddy HTML5 export tool. For some reason, none of my included files were being detected, so I ended up having to hard-code all of the data and use a basic Game Maker font. It looks slightly terrible and the web version will never be updated if I add new name components, but I'm not about to do down this rabbit hole when I'd really just like to push this thing out the door.

TLDR: the web version is slightly worse than the downloadable one. I am lazy, but feel justified blaming my dev tool.

Files

Goblin Name Generator HTML5.zip Play in browser
Aug 08, 2020
Goblin Name Generator_win.exe 3 MB
Aug 08, 2020

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