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Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by tibbon »

brico wrote: post #17

It'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…

I dunno, this is better (and more fun) than any Flash based browser MMO I've played. Also didn't bug me about buying coins in their store or some Zynga-like upsell.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by TobbenTM »

pepijndevos wrote: post #39

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

First ??? quest: Get an orange potion (to get the Firefox costume)

Second ??? quest: Enter a portal. I found one to the east-southeast to the starting point.

Still trying to figure out the last one.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by groovecoder »

vertex-four wrote: post #40
lillycat wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

This demo is really for HTML5, not for BrowserID. BrowserID might add an unrefined and unnecessary hurdle to the game. Then all the other platform dev's and press will say silly things like HTML5 requires BrowserID or something.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by mthq »

TobbenTM wrote: post #42
pepijndevos wrote: post #39

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

First ??? quest: Get an orange potion (to get the Firefox costume) Second ??? quest: Enter a portal. I found one to the east-southeast to the starting point. Still trying to figure out the last one.

The last one is Rickroll'd, you meet Rick Astley in one of the caves.

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by franck »

user2459 wrote: post #37
franck wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thank you. That means a lot to us. :)

Re: Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment

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Post by lloeki »

sbarre wrote: post #10

Very fun and well done. Nice of them to publish the source as well..

It feels very polished indeed. It works just fine on Safari, SFX included, although there's no music (dunno if it is supposed to have). A little musical theme per area would be nice.

There are easter eggs all over the place. I don't want to spoil them but a bunch of them really made me smile.

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