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Interesting, I have been working on a similar project, albeit 320x240.

I also got some code-share and collaboration features working, but got a bit stuck on fonts. But I can appreciate your feeling of 'how cool this is'

I ground to a halt once I realised I had no barrier to entry, ie it could be cloned very easily. Always an issue with Web Development I guess. Plus I hate what modern browsers have become in recent years and not sure I want to target such a fast moving platform. I got burned once already with WebStart 'warning this app might do something scary' and certificate fiasco.

I thought about some native binaries, but I know I am kidding myself. I had an ios app that was pixel cloned within 6 months. But somehow a web app feels like publishing straight into public domain.

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It's not just the web, native apps have always had free open source clones that technically render them useless, often just as good quality, yet they didn't go out of business. There are other considerations people make when deciding to use an app, including network effect, a strong community, sheer level of quality and passion from the developers, etc.

For fonts, I just went with a simple raster bitmap font and pixel grid storage format. Creating these limitations makes it easier for me and for developers and artists. I choose 320x180 because it fits the 16:9 perfectly, which would make full screen ideal on most monitors.