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Turbulenz HTML5 Games Engine Goes Open Source

Posted by Soulskill on from the go-forth-and-gamificate dept.

New submitter JoeKilner writes "The Turbulenz HTML5 games engine has been released as open source under the MIT license. The engine is a full 3D engine written in TypeScript and using WebGL. To see what the engine is capable off, check out this video of a full 3D FPS running in the browser using the Turbulenz engine and Quake 4 assets. You can see some of the games already developed with the engine at Turbulenz.com. (Note — to try the games without registering, hit the big blue 'Play as Guest' button.) Also, IE doesn't have WebGL support yet, so to play without a plugin try Chrome or FIrefox."

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  1. Re:What? No IE 6 support?! by VortexCortex · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Well, it's WebGL, so all they have to do is compile Turbulenz for OpenGL and release it as a native client.

    :-P <- This is the straight face I'm not able to keep.

    Seriously though, for your IE6 crowd if they can just release the game with a Firefox or Chrome redistributable runtime...