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This assumes all web games primarily, or exclusively, use canvas. Is that accurate? (Sincerely asking.)

Well you could make a web game that uses the DOM but you could be having issues with the UI not rendering the same on different platforms. Otherwise I think most games uses the canvas.

On this topic: has anyone seen a web game with anything beyond a rudimentary UI that’s in canvas?

For RPG inventory menus and management I love putting DOM on top of my canvas frame. I’m not sure I’ve seen any good examples of rich UIs in canvas, though I’m sure some exist.

I think an example would be the famous 2D Action RPG CrossCode [0] which is a game that was made using the canvas alone [1]. I doubt that the UI in that game is made using the DOM.

0 : https://store.steampowered.com/app/368340/CrossCode/ 1 : https://steamcommunity.com/app/368340/discussions/0/12918172...

Check out shapez.io. It has an full rpg/builder UI (I think in canvas), and the full code is up on github.

Oooh thanks. A full RPG UI builder has got my attention!

I’ll check it out when I’m at work as their website just says that there’s no mobile support. :/

Full builder game w ui, not ui builder :D

Many html5 games use a dom layer above the webgl layer for UI. Phaser, arguably the most popular html5 game engine, depends on this.

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