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Mozilla Releases HTML5 MMO BrowserQuest
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!"
I'm waiting to see thousands of new players enter the arena in real time. Should be interesting.
There's no such thing as a Zelda rip-off. Zelda itself was a rip-off.
Now get off my lawn.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
You'll eventually get in. There seem to be different realms because I have two browsers open with different profiles and I see different players in each environment. But they seem to balance the players across the realms pretty well because the player count is close to the same in each one.
Four of the letters in their names are the same.
That's about it.
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! ;)
Dark Reflection
They're about as similar as a Car and a Carpet
How about Mozilla focus their resources on projects more to their core and worthwhile.
Why bother focusing on pointless browsers and mail clients when cancer is still uncured, killing thousands? Seems awfully selfish and inconsiderate to piss away ones time with these pointless endeavors when we still have AIDS, cancer, and other diseases. Who knows? Perhaps we could have had a cure for one or more of these if open-source efforts had been directed toward medical research.
Of course this would require you to actually think about someone other than yourselves.
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?
Ok then, they're about as similar as a Hamster and a Ham
Threads, networking, sound, graphics...
What next?
Maybe someday, web developers will be on par with applications developers from the 70s!