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I wish I had read that first :/ Crashed my whole system Chromium 25.0.1364.160 Ubuntu 12.04
This shouldn't be possible if the OS is written correctly. :-\
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He's on Ubuntu. Anything is possible to make it crash.
Both of these comments are idiotic and flamebait.
but being the devils advocate here, both parents of your comment are not that far off.
Ubuntu is more prone to crash because it invites the user to install much more closed source and proprietary code, by design. so they are not that idiotic and flamebaitic.
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The biggest issue I see is with distribution. For example: I'm not a fan of DRM, but there's nothing preventing anyone from downloading the game and selling/giving away copies with ease.
MMOs solve this extremely well: you pay for access to the world, content, and community, not for the code.
This is so awesome that I never want to see another WebGL demo again. This one proves it; you can make awesome games in WebGL. From now on I only want to read about non-demo WebGL games that are in development with a real release date.
The biggest issue I see is with distribution. For example: I'm not a fan of DRM, but there's nothing preventing anyone from downloading the game and selling/giving away copies with ease.
The piracy while a legitimate problem is a relatively minor one. The first is visibility, the second is quality. Getting to the point where someone bothers to pirate your stuff and the majority of people that download it install it and play trough it is a mark of success - doing something right.
And with sizable proportion of the gaming community in their 30s - you will be surprised how many people have desire to support the studios. We learned our lessons with Shadow of the colossus, Psychonauts and the fate of Black Isle.
This is so awesome that I never want to see another WebGL demo again. This one proves it; you can make awesome games in WebGL. From now on I only want to read about non-demo WebGL games that are in development with a real release date.
The biggest issue I see is with distribution. For example: I'm not a fan of DRM, but there's nothing preventing anyone from downloading the game and selling/giving away copies with ease.
Actually, WebGL games would be a lot more secure from piracy, because they would be online, and you could easily stop 99% of the piracy by requiring a login for the game. It's basically like the Diablo 3 model, only better. Because Diablo 3 should be easier to crack and play on private servers (not sure if even that has happened yet).
Making an "online game" instead of a native "PC game" is the best way to stop most of the piracy.
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I understand that. Take a read of this: http://mrale.ph/blog/2013/03/28/why-asmjs-bothers-me.html . I have a lot of respect for Egorov, and I agree with his views on this matter quite entirely. The sole benefit of embedding a bytecode in a language is that you get the side effect that it can run anywhere that language runs. But in general, this implies performance penalties, especially when the language is relatively…
> 1. asm.js makes running C++ code that would render to OpenGL in the browser a possibility, and with relatively good performance. Kudos to Mozilla. > 2. It runs on browsers that don't know about asm.js, but it's effectively an emulated machine, and it's slow. Do you have benchmark numbers to support that? In my experience, asm.js code is quite fast even without special asm.js optimizations. It depends on the benchma…
It doesn't work for me. I downloaded Nightly using the provided link, but when I open the URL it still says unsupported browser. It also doesn't have the option to 'try anyway' like Chrome does.
OS Browser Avg. FPS Min FPS
Win8 Fx 20 26 16
Win8 Fx Nightly 46 34
Ubuntu 13.04 Fx 20 17 16