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BrowserQuest– a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment

95 points| paulrouget | 14 years ago |hacks.mozilla.org

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[+] dkhenry|14 years ago|reply
This has been a long time coming. I am happy to see the implementations of HTML5 technologies that are capable of delivering this kind of experience.
[+] html5iscancer|14 years ago|reply
The scrolling was jerky for me on my newish desktop PC. There doesn't seem to be any new "technology" here, just some slow wrappers around stuff that was around years ago. If this is being touted as "the future" then programming is really going down the toilet.
[+] glenntzke|14 years ago|reply
I look forward to trying this out with a few friends from college who were mildly addicted to simple games like Dwarf Fortress and Zelda. Any excuse for old school multiplayer gaming is a good one.
[+] Kiro|14 years ago|reply
Dwarf Fortress is probably one of the most complex games ever made. Simple graphics, yes, but that's the only thing.
[+] masklinn|14 years ago|reply
> simple games like Dwarf Fortress

Simple like DF?

[+] esteth|14 years ago|reply
I think you may have underestimated the complexity of Dwarf Fortress. It's the most complex single player game I've ever played
[+] senjutsuka|14 years ago|reply
Its a 20 minute game, dont get too excited. Awesome display of technology but its not what you typically think of when you hear MMO.

The potential is awesome and Im sure some hackers out there will do something amazing with the source code.

[+] danneu|14 years ago|reply
Given that it's called "BrowserQuest" at "browserquest.mozilla.org", I doubt too many people went in expecting Ultima Online.
[+] rduchnik|14 years ago|reply
wow, this is pretty impressive.
[+] html5iscancer|14 years ago|reply
Not trying to bully you, but what part of this is impressive? There doesn't seem to be anything here that wasn't done better decades ago. Why does everything become impressive once it appears in the browser?
[+] pkmiec|14 years ago|reply
what's the ??? quest?
[+] simcop2387|14 years ago|reply
There's a few, One is "for science" find the portals and get the cake.

The other is a maze to a rickroll, and then there's a fox potion that turns you into a firefox that makes you invincible for a short time.

[+] html5iscancer|14 years ago|reply
Sockets are not a new technology. Wrapping sockets in a bunch of overhead and taking away UDP isn't new technology. No smooth scrolling on a PC with a graphics card an inch thick strikes me as a very poor job. But it will be hailed as a "step forwward" because it's in the browser space (which has no standards).
[+] erikpukinskis|14 years ago|reply
The Browser is a massive step forward in four key areas:

1) Zero-pain installation (no steps, no wait to download)

2) Zero-friction sharing (paste a url to any resource within the app/game)

3) Zero-friction upgrading (happens automatically. depending on architecture, no need to even reload the app)

4) Largest install base of any platform

It's a classic disruptive technology. Yeah the graphics suck. Yeah it's slow. But those things are improving, and will get to the point where they're "good enough" for a big swath of uses. Whereas the four properties above are much more challenging to fit into an Xbox or iOS architecture.