A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node
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#2I'm really looking forward to seeing more gaming in the browser and hope it catches on. Imagine writing a game and it works on all platforms, PC, Mac, Tablet Android, iOS, etc. Also, TV manufacturers keep putting more powerful chips in their TV's for HD decoding. Couple with this a good browser, could we eventually see an end to console gaming because everyone's TV can play 3D games? Not to mention a lot of the TV's already have network capability. There's plenty of progress to make no doubt but it seems like a serious possibility to me.
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#3Can it handle rendering the star ship enterprise all at once?
Re: A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node
#4I'm really looking forward to seeing more gaming in the browser and hope it catches on. Imagine writing a game and it works on all platforms, PC, Mac, Tablet Android, iOS, etc. Also, TV manufacturers keep putting more powerful chips in their TV's for HD decoding. Couple with this a good browser, could we eventually see an end to console gaming because everyone's TV can play 3D games? Not to mention a lot of the TV's…
Agreed. Someone please make an AOE2 clone for the browser. It's the perfect environment for multiplayer RTS.
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#5A friend of mine made something similar, plus multiplayer support (and minus gravity): http://benvanik.github.com/blk-game/
Re: A Minecraft-like Block Based Game Engine Using Three.js, WebGL and Node
#6I'm really looking forward to seeing more gaming in the browser and hope it catches on. Imagine writing a game and it works on all platforms, PC, Mac, Tablet Android, iOS, etc. Also, TV manufacturers keep putting more powerful chips in their TV's for HD decoding. Couple with this a good browser, could we eventually see an end to console gaming because everyone's TV can play 3D games? Not to mention a lot of the TV's…
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#7I'm always curious how much optimisation is required for these big voxel engines.
I assume since all voxels are the same size you can just batch draw them but even so there is going to be a lot within viewing distance that may be invisible.
Are they all just assigned to an octtree and then culled against the view frustum or do you really need some clever occlusion culling?
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#8A friend of mine made something similar, plus multiplayer support (and minus gravity): http://benvanik.github.com/blk-game/
Wow.
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#9I'm really looking forward to seeing more gaming in the browser and hope it catches on. Imagine writing a game and it works on all platforms, PC, Mac, Tablet Android, iOS, etc. Also, TV manufacturers keep putting more powerful chips in their TV's for HD decoding. Couple with this a good browser, could we eventually see an end to console gaming because everyone's TV can play 3D games? Not to mention a lot of the TV's…
Agreed. Someone please make an AOE2 clone for the browser. It's the perfect environment for multiplayer RTS.
I think the big barrier for building a multiplayer RTS in the browser would be the lack of UDP sockets.
You could certainly do something with websockets but it may involve making substantial compromises.
With TVs you have the added issue that people probably don't want to replace their whole TV every couple of years just to upgrade the graphics or whatever.
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Agreed. Someone please make an AOE2 clone for the browser. It's the perfect environment for multiplayer RTS.
I think the big barrier for building a multiplayer RTS in the browser would be the lack of UDP sockets. You could certainly do something with websockets but it may involve making substantial compromises. With TVs you have the added issue that people probably don't want to replace their whole TV every couple of years just to upgrade the graphics or whatever.
> I think the big barrier for building a multiplayer RTS in the browser would be the lack of UDP sockets.
This is brought up often but it appears some basic multiplayer is possible over websockets (I've written a very simple game using them). If UDP is that necessary, people will push for it and we'll eventually see it (or something equivalent) in the browser.
> With TVs you have the added issue that people probably don't want to replace their whole TV every couple of years just to upgrade the graphics or whatever.
This is turning out to be less of the case though as older PC hardware can still run newer games. The need for graphics is no longer growing faster than the resources to power them. This is especially noticable in the indie game market where rather simple graphics games have become very popular. Even high-end games don't "need" new power as much as they once did, the PS3 is what, 7 years old now?