You can follow the player population in real-time on this dashboard: http://browserquest.mozilla.org/status/
Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
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Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
#12https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/server
It's weird to me that they list the node dependencies in the server README instead of using a package.json.
Very cool project, though.
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#13NPC soldiers with HTML5 orange shield are just too cute :) And this is actually a nice little game. Buy then again, where is browserid and open badges support ?
There's no authentication here. I don't see why you would use BrowserID.
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#14Can't even get past the enter your name screen.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
I have browserID supported on a few projects I've shipped, adoption comes down to the developers, all Mozilla can do is provide the tools.
Yes, but this is a Mozilla project, so no excuses on that one.
It is on github, you could propose a patch... Mozilla is a not-for-profit, this is a technological demo...
Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
#16NPC soldiers with HTML5 orange shield are just too cute :) And this is actually a nice little game. Buy then again, where is browserid and open badges support ?
There's no authentication here. I don't see why you would use BrowserID.
I could see using BrowserID for auth to save some kind of leaderboard on the server-side or something.
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#17It's still a long way to compete with Flash in the area of games but it's nice to see this effort.
When I talked to Flash developers, their main concerns were having to worry about different browsers and their belief that everything became "open source" automatically because you can just view the source. They don't want to spend weeks on a project that sets them apart from other competitors only to be copied by the next guy within a day.
Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
#18It's still a long way to compete with Flash in the area of games but it's nice to see this effort. When I talked to Flash developers, their main concerns were having to worry about different browsers and their belief that everything became "open source" automatically because you can just view the source. They don't want to spend weeks on a project that sets them apart from other competitors only to be copied by the n…
Shouldn't the beauty of games be the gameplay and the art, not the technology? Isn't it a good thing that the technology behind a game is no longer the primary selling point?
Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
#19Crashes Mobile Safari on my iPhone.
Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
#20Would be pretty cool if someone implemented a decent browser-based MMORPG with a high degree of scriptability. Get the best of MMORPGs and MUDs + portability.