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Mozilla Releases HTML5 MMO BrowserQuest

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-got-your-game-in-my-interwebs dept.

New submitter rasmuswikman sends this quote from an announcement at hacks.mozilla.org: "BrowserQuest is a tribute to classic video-games with a multiplayer twist. You play as a young warrior driven by the thrill of adventure. No princess to save here, just a dangerous world filled with treasures to discover. And it's all done in glorious HTML5 and JavaScript. Even better, it's open-source, so be sure to check out the source code on GitHub!"

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  1. Visual slashdotting. by suso · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm waiting to see thousands of new players enter the arena in real time. Should be interesting.

  2. Re:Zelda rip-off by HBI · · Score: 3, Funny

    There's no such thing as a Zelda rip-off. Zelda itself was a rip-off.

    Now get off my lawn.

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    HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
  3. Re:Glorious Javascript by OakDragon · · Score: 4, Funny

    I don't know how related Javascript is to Java but the last Java game I played was Minecraft and the performance wasn't so glorious.

    Prepare for an assault on two different borders! ;)

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    Dark Reflection
  4. Re:Glorious Javascript by IAmGarethAdams · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're about as similar as a Car and a Carpet

  5. Re:Glorious Javascript by Nadaka · · Score: 3, Funny

    Especially when it is carpet that uses dynamic variants and prototyping instead of strongly typed references and class based inheritance... am I doing this analogy thing right?

  6. Re:Glorious Javascript by IAmGarethAdams · · Score: 4, Funny

    Ok then, they're about as similar as a Hamster and a Ham

  7. Built on bleeding edge technology by loufoque · · Score: 4, Funny

    Threads, networking, sound, graphics...
    What next?

    Maybe someday, web developers will be on par with applications developers from the 70s!