I know what you mean but there’s two things that worry me: Firstly, many people are (rightly) nervous of the ‘This program can harm your computer’ popups that come with Webstart. In my experience most ‘ordinary’ (ie non-programming) surfers will always click ‘No’. I’m forever telling people ‘If in doubt don’t run it’ - I can’t expect them to go against good advice! Once they’ve played it a few times without any security risk they’re much more likely to install the applet certificate to allow them to play multiplayer.
Secondly I know that if I do a Webstart version I’ll start to focus on that (because it’s prettier and faster) so the applet will start to slide down the agenda. Then there’s the issue of maintaining more than one codebase &c, &c.
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I’d love to do a dedicated graphics engine but I doubt I could better jPCT - he’s spent years getting it right. I really don’t want to get side-tracked from my guiding principle: Good gameplay beats good graphics every time. Look at Runescape: terrible graphics, but 150,000 people play it every day!
