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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:Can anyone connect? by suso · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  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 IAmGarethAdams · · Score: 4, Funny

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

  6. 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!