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Integrating the Web Into Games

Posted by Soulskill on from the attention-spans-are-too-long-these-days dept.

Got Game recently announced the launch of an in-game web browser called Rogue, designed for concurrent use with modern games for those who don't care to to switch back and forth. Their aim is to make it so gamers can more easily keep themselves entertained during downtime in games, and to streamline information retrieval without missing any of the action. An anonymous reader writes with related news from Gamasutra: "This article details the practical steps for game developers to add a video recording feature to a game, encode gameplay footage in the Theora video format, and share the recording on YouTube. Spore's Creature Creator, PixelJunk Eden, and Mainichi Issho already support YouTube, but not only commercial games benefit. By hosting the videos, YouTube puts this feature in reach of indie game developers who might otherwise not be able to afford the server resources."

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  1. Re:Meh by AnonGCB · · Score: 4, Interesting

    http://ttyshare.com/play/nethack Play nethack online :)

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  2. Re:EVE Online by Shadow+of+Eternity · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Don't both HL1 and HL2 allow servers to just have the MOTD display their webpage?

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  3. Yeah, paying to be bored. by David+Gerard · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Gamers who are sick of paying to be bored could turn to First Life, the incredibly popular Massively Multiplayer Offline Reality-Playing Game released by Jehovah Labs six thousand years ago. At least in First Life, people pay you to be bored.

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  4. Just fix the MMO by bonkeydcow · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If I'm so bored playing a game that I need to browse the web, it's time to find a new game. Seriously.

  5. yikes by Bobtree · · Score: 2, Interesting

    This is completely the wrong problem to solve.

    How about playing games that don't suck instead?

  6. Re:Have you played an MMO? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I actually run all my games in Windowed mode.
    If i come across a game that has no support for it, and i can't find a patch file anywhere, it is going bye-bye, returned, deleted, whatever.
    Note to any fellow developers reading: STOP MAKING FULL-SCREEN ONLY DAMN IT!
    And learn to deal with alt-tabs too, for those lazier ones, it isn't that hard.

    I would be shocked if an MMO actually lacked a Windowed mode, communities are a large part of MMOs.

    There needs to be a poll on whether people do more single-tasks, or several at the same time.
    And then we hunt down those single-taskers and punish them with the Teletubbies.

  7. Re:Have you played an MMO? by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 2, Interesting

    If i come across a game that has no support for it, and i can't find a patch file anywhere, it is going bye-bye, returned, deleted, whatever.

    The ironic part is, while almost no Linux games don't have their own Windowed mode, there's one trick I can only apply to Windows games -- run them in a Wine "desktop window", rather than letting them draw native windows. Then, they think they go fullscreen, but they're actually inside a desktop window.

    I would be shocked if an MMO actually lacked a Windowed mode, communities are a large part of MMOs.

    Nexus TK did for a very long time. I played it the way I described above, and people frequently asked me for help making it windowed -- of course, most didn't want to make the switch to Linux just for that!

    Recently, though, they added a windowed mode -- and made it the default, which immediately annoyed everyone. See, Nexus runs at a fixed resolution, so people with native 1024x768 resolutions were finding their game couldn't fit on their screen as a window.

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