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Looks good!  Nowadays I am mostly running Linux OS.  Any chance for a Linux port?  Thanks

Glad you like it! Next up is a Web Assembly / WebGPU port. I've realized I need to make all of my games available on the web. A friend of mine said he was running the game via Proton. That might be worth looking into. He didn't run into any performance issues doing that.

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That's neat!  I first heard about WASM (WebAssembly) and emscripten a couple years ago, and it sounds like a revolutionary technology, even though there is very little hype around it, or even popular awareness of it.  I'm actually doing the same thing, targeting ports of my (future, prospective) games into WebAssembly amongst other target platforms.  But there are currently some technical limitations surrounding WASM, and it isn't always a direct or easy port.

After just one week, I've made some pretty good progress. I would estimate I'll have the game playable via Web GL within a few weeks.

Sounds good!

Yeah, I recently installed Wine (the Windows emulator for Linux) so I might look into Proton as well.  I believe Proton creates a compatibility layer to run HTML5 Apps natively on the offline desktop if I understand correctly - no that's Electron I am thinking of.  Right, Proton is developed by Valve/Steam for cross-OS compatibility of Windows Apps to Linux OS.  I heard that Proton has been improved more and more over a period of time, with better compatibility results than previously.  Thanks for the tip, I think I will check out Proton in addition to Wine.  Actually, Proton is a fork of Wine or utilizes Wine if I understand.

As I understand it, Proton is how my first game, Mooselutions, can be played on the Steam Deck without any extra work on my part. If you ship a game on Steam for Windows, it's just automatically available on the Steam Deck via Proton. You have to make some adjustments to your Windows build so it plays well and looks good, but otherwise it's totally viable. Mooselutions got Steam Deck approved without any need to do a straight Linux port. Gaben delivers.