How Construct 2 helps make HTML5 work

A nice blog post on the Scirra Blog (Scirra are the makers of the Construct 2 HTML5 Game IDE) that could rightfully be called “Shooting down some of the myths of HTML5 Game Development” such as:

“Javascript is ugly!”
“Javascript is slow!”
“You can’t run HTML5 games from the desktop!”
“It all has to be open source (there’s no way to hide code)”

Some of the points are specifically for Construct2, but it’s a good read for people concerned about some of the drawback of HTML5 Game Development

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