Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment • Hacker News Board

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by user2459 » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

Really organized, easy reading source too: https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest

Outstanding work that I'm sure is going to inspire a lot of people. Though I don't see a license file anywhere.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by jiggy2011 » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #30

Anyone know how they do the networking? Websock , Comet or ajax?

Ah, It's websocket with load balanced nodejs servers.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by abraham » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #30

Anyone know how they do the networking? Websock , Comet or ajax?

There are active websocket connections.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by franck » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:33 PM UTC

user2459 wrote: post #31

Really organized, easy reading source too: https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest Outstanding work that I'm sure is going to inspire a lot of people. Though I don't see a license file anywhere.

Thanks. We are going to update the repository soon with licensing info.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by justinhj » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:33 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #30

Anyone know how they do the networking? Websock , Comet or ajax?

It's not a Comet style poll because the only requests I see it making are to a server that seem to be tracking metrics that have no response.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by paulrouget » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

jiggy2011 wrote: post #30

Anyone know how they do the networking? Websock , Comet or ajax?

All the info are here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by user2459 » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:39 PM UTC

franck wrote: post #34

user2459 wrote: post #31

Really organized, easy reading source too: https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest Outstanding work that I'm sure is going to inspire a lot of people. Though I don't see a license file anywhere.

Thanks. We are going to update the repository soon with licensing info.

Awesome! And again great work. The game was really enjoyable and the code inspiring.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by charlesju » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:43 PM UTC

What is the license on this?

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

#39

Post by pepijndevos » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:54 PM UTC

Did anyone figure out how to get to the mario pipe, and what the ??? quest is?

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by vertex-four » Tue, Mar 27, 2012, 3:56 PM UTC

lillycat wrote: post #15

aptwebapps wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

Mozilla are trying to push their BrowserID on the world though. A fairly popular (among devs) technological demo seems like the right place to start that; it'd show us how easy it is for users to use, and how simple it is to integrate. Not using it is a wasted opportunity.