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Rainway - Play your favorite PC games from any web enabled device

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Rainway lets you leverage the power of your PC to play your favorite games on any device, anywhere, at anytime. Overwatch on your mac? We got you covered. Want to play CIV on your tablet? We can handle that too. With Rainway, you can enjoy your favorite games without limitations.

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Suuuper interesting. The first startup I worked at was InstantAction, building tech to enable any game to be playable in the browser. While a very different solution than this, we were approaching a similar opportunity back in 2009. This also reminds me of Gaikai and Onlive, both acquired by Sony (edited my previous typo).
Maker
The web as a platform has really evolved over the last 10 years. Hopefully we're able to keep pushing browsers to their limits and make a positive impact on their development. Would love to hear more about your time at InstantAction.
didn't Sony buy Gaikai and turned it into playstation now? Together with David Perry.
you're right! I mixed this up. Edited!

There much more powerful app with the same idea — playkey.net

Pros:

have a Mac so no pros yet

Cons:

PC only

That's incorrect. It works right now on Mac via browser just as PC. Try it out.
Maker
The Rainway web client allows you to play across most platforms without any extra downloads. Our self-hosted server is currently Windows only with plans for a macOS and Linux variant down the line.
Thanks Vladislav. I am founder of Playkey and just noticed accidentally your post! It motivates to make our product much better.
I difference is that you pay them T_T
Only for Windows PC. No server for Mac :(
even when games are on the Mac, most of the time they’re not even optimized for it. Macs are great but until fairly recently games weren’t even on its radar
Maker
While our server is currently Windows only, we do have plans for a macOS and Linux variant in our pipeline.
Great to hear that 👍
that’s why a product like this could fix that

Would love this service if it wasn't buggy and there were paid or free servers so you didn't need a gaming PC

Pros:

Free

Cons:

Buggy, slow connection, need a gaming PC to run server

Maker
Hi Adrian, Sorry you had issues with our service, can you share some of these bugs you ran into? As for slow connections, this comes down to your internet and hardware as nothing is actually going through our servers. You need to properly configure the streaming for your machine.
great but.. " Connection log Connecting over WebRTC first. Failed to connect with WebRTC {"Error":"TargetDoesNotExist"} Attempting to connect by socket. Failed to connect with socket. Could not locate DNS entries, please run the server first time setup. "
Maker
You need to install the agent/server on a Windows 10 PC before you can use the web client.
Thanks for your product! Now I can play games on my MacBook from my home PC everywhere A lot of bugs but I believe that you will fix them soon 😉
Maker
If you find any major issues please message me on Twitter and I will take a look!
First of all, this looks very cool! 🙌 But... PC? I feel like it would’ve made much more sense to play console games. Don’t get me wrong, though, I love any type of game, no matter the platform. In my opinion, console games would be more fitting because they are designed to be played via controller - something you can hook up with your phone (I guess, I haven’t actually done it). On the other hand, some PC games can be played via controller, yes, but then there are games like Starcraft, World of Warcraft and whatnot where you *need* to play with keyboard and mouse, which are a bit harder to plug in a phone, I think. I’m not saying it sounds reasonable to play Starcraft on a phone, just using it as an example for how some PC games need keyboards.
Cool to see more products in this space. Have you experimented streaming from Windows machines on AWS EC2 service?
Maker
We played around with EC2 a bit, we will be posting some official guides on our blog on how you can get it up and running on cloud servers.
Awesome! Will be looking forward to this :)
I've tried to sign in and list the games on iPhone (Safari & Chrome) but it keeps loading and no any result. Is mobile not supporting? Also, there is a responsiveness issue on the page.
Maker
We should have a patch out this coming week to address some mobile browser issues.
Does the web client work for Mac? It says "Unable to connect to Rainway by websocket: It looks like you've never run Rainway before. Please download it from on a Windows 10 PC before using this client.." Do I just need to do this once?
Maker
The web client works great on mac! As the message states, you should download the server onto a Windows 10 PC. The client is then used to access that PC to play your games.
Hmmm is this like remote desktop? Can my brother be playing overwatch (for example) on the same desktop that I host the rainway server while I also play using the web client? Or can there only be one player at a time?
Maker
We're currently building a streamlined coop experience into our platform. Right now however if you wanted to say play Cuphead with your brother, he could be sitting at the PC playing with one controller while you remote in via the client. You would just be the one that has to start the game.
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