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Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Re: Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Post by ronyeh »

jader201 wrote: post #29

I upvoted this because it is awesome, and it is, well... Bomberman. But I'm genuinely curious: at what point will we stop being fascinated by what can be done in HTML5, and actually start focusing more on what is actually being done -- regardless of the technology used. Or to put it another way: when will HTML5 games stop feeling like HTML5 games? For example, if this were on a console, I think it would still be cool…

HTML5 just needs a better sound API (e.g., programmatic playback, midi) so that we can make better games/apps. Many games just fall back to Flash for their sound.

Re: Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Post by jamieb »

Awesome, but one exploit makes it less fun:

Smart players who are trapped by a foe are dropping their own bombs so that the foe doesn't get the kill.

I blocked a player in an alley. Right before he died he dropped his own bomb. I got no point for the kill. That means any skilled player can prevent anyone from scoring points for killing them.

The solution is to use a kill chain. When a bomb kills a player, look to see if that bomb was detonated by another bomb. Keep going until you find a bomb that is not owned by the dead player. That owner gets the kill.

Re: Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Post by Yahivin »

jader201 wrote: post #29

I upvoted this because it is awesome, and it is, well... Bomberman. But I'm genuinely curious: at what point will we stop being fascinated by what can be done in HTML5, and actually start focusing more on what is actually being done -- regardless of the technology used. Or to put it another way: when will HTML5 games stop feeling like HTML5 games? For example, if this were on a console, I think it would still be cool…

Look into Red Ice, a local multiplayer HTML5 game played with Xbox gamepads.

Re: Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Post by SolarUpNote »

jader201 wrote: post #29

I upvoted this because it is awesome, and it is, well... Bomberman. But I'm genuinely curious: at what point will we stop being fascinated by what can be done in HTML5, and actually start focusing more on what is actually being done -- regardless of the technology used. Or to put it another way: when will HTML5 games stop feeling like HTML5 games? For example, if this were on a console, I think it would still be cool…

When will tools like Flash be created for HTML5/javascript? (with drawing tools, animation tools, etc)

Re: Bomberman massively multiplayer in HTML5

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Post by jiggy2011 »

Shish2k wrote: post #70
jader201 wrote: post #29

I upvoted this because it is awesome, and it is, well... Bomberman. But I'm genuinely curious: at what point will we stop being fascinated by what can be done in HTML5, and actually start focusing more on what is actually being done -- regardless of the technology used. Or to put it another way: when will HTML5 games stop feeling like HTML5 games? For example, if this were on a console, I think it would still be cool…

Web Apps set us back 20 years in pretty much every respect except ease of deployment (1992 - people are impressed that Wolfenstein 3D gets 60FPS on a 100MHz Pentium; 2012 - people are impressed that Wolfenstein 3D (in Javascript!!!!111omg) gets 15FPS without sound on an 8-core 3GHz box). With the exponential rate of development I doubt it'll take a full 20 years to catch up, but it'll still be a while before we've co…

A 100Mhz Pentium in 1992? More like a 25Mhz 486 if you were lucky, my friend made it run on a 286. And you'd get about 15fps, wolf3d used to give people brutal motion sickness.

Wolf3D is also an interesting example because the rendering is done in software (so your high powered HD video card doesn't help at all) and I guess a lot of development time was spent writing asm routines/hacks to take shortcuts with the necessary math.

To be fair, a lot of the reason that people are remaking these old games is because people like playing old style games and the people building these demos are probably doing it in a very small team (or even solo).

It should certainly be possible to remake Half-Life (maybe even HL2?) entirely in javascript/WebGL or make more sophisticated 3D games. But we won't see it until some bigger gamedev is willing to risk a fair chunk of change on the browser as a gaming platform.

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