Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by robin_reala » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 3:32 PM UTC

Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL
blog.mozilla.org

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by JelteF » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:00 PM UTC

I would love to be able to play Unity games on Linux in the browser. Currently there is no Linux plugin and that kind of sucks. WebGL support would be the ultimate solution of course.

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by tomcam » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:15 PM UTC

Article does not address licensing terms; what's in it for Unity?

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by Cakez0r » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:18 PM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #3

Article does not address licensing terms; what's in it for Unity?

More sales, I imagine. If Unity can add chrome support then this could a pretty big deal for gaming on the web!

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by withjive » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:19 PM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #3

Article does not address licensing terms; what's in it for Unity?

Unity is a tools company. This is just another target platform for them, so they can sell more licenses for their software.

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by withjive » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:21 PM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

tomcam wrote: post #3

Article does not address licensing terms; what's in it for Unity?

More sales, I imagine. If Unity can add chrome support then this could a pretty big deal for gaming on the web!

They have already proved (Lego Starwars demo IIRC) that they can target the NaCL runtime for Chrome (and ARM Chromebooks). But I'm not sure when/if they plan to release that publicly.

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by doktrin » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

withjive wrote: post #6

Cakez0r wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

More sales, I imagine. If Unity can add chrome support then this could a pretty big deal for gaming on the web!

They have already proved (Lego Starwars demo IIRC) that they can target the NaCL runtime for Chrome (and ARM Chromebooks). But I'm not sure when/if they plan to release that publicly.

I think it makes more sense for them to aim towards some sort of unified platform. NaCL is cool and all, but it's very Google specific. WebGL is now even supported in the latest versions of IE.

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by Cakez0r » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:24 PM UTC

I'm curious to know how networking behaves in a webgl build. Will my tcp sockets just work straight out of the box? That would be seriously impressive!

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by RyanZAG » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:31 PM UTC

Cakez0r wrote: post #8

I'm curious to know how networking behaves in a webgl build. Will my tcp sockets just work straight out of the box? That would be seriously impressive!

They won't, but changing your server to accept websocket instead shouldn't be too bad.

Re: Mozilla and Unity Bring Unity Game Engine to WebGL

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Post by gisenberg » Tue, Mar 18, 2014, 4:32 PM UTC

tomcam wrote: post #3

Article does not address licensing terms; what's in it for Unity?

Each platform for Unity has another license associated with it (eg: $1500 for Android Pro, another $1500 for iOS Pro). Another web target would be another $1500 license for folks to buy annually, I imagine.