Its the spirit of LD and also the main reason why people create and make games in the first place… hell, everytime I make anything it is because I want to play it myself.

“We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.”

When someone makes a conscious choice that limits their user base (android developers, unity developers, etc), sure, it is their decision, go ahead with it!

When on the other hand, you decide not to do something your platform already allows you to, It smells to much of laziness for me. For instance, people who put windows builds that need to be installed, instead of just the ready-to-run binary, or people who post source without the binaries, etc.

*Note : my next game will in all likelihood NOT be an Arduino contraption.

For my part, I didn’t go into LD expecting a lot of ratings or attempts to play my game. I was surprised though, at the number who actually did stop by and hit that “Save” button. I’m sure 1/3 of my “ratings” are “can’t play, don’t own an Android” but I can see just from Google’s records how many downloads I’ve had and it’s not small. If anything I was surprised at how many actually *have* played the game.

Now that’s not saying “make a web game” more of when choosing which libraries to use if option A supports more people than B (or option A doesn’t require a dozen framework installs but B does) ….consider using A.