Show HN: Stig – a minimalistic puzzle game on Steam, written in React

5 points by mirrish 2 days ago

Me and my boyfriend are making a puzzle game together. The goal of the game is to follow a specific pattern by moving around in a grid. Since we are both web developers, we chose to do it in React and Typescript rather than a game engine. We will release it on Steam in November, using Electron to package the app as a desktop executable.

Not sure if it has saved us time to do it in React, but we didn't feel like learning a new tool and it has worked really well! I thought making a game would take a lot of time, but we started in December so we will finish this project in less than a year. And we have had lots of fun making it :) Would be fun to hear if someone has done something similar!

Try out the demo at https://lageb.itch.io/stig or https://store.steampowered.com/app/2910530/Stig_Demo/.

I have posted about Stig before, roughly 7 months ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39580484). Since then we have changed the levels, updated the menu structure, added a lot of polish etc.