BrowserQuest
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| Developer(s) | Little Workshop and Mozilla Foundation |
| Publisher(s) | Mozilla Foundation |
| Genre(s) | Massively multiplayer online role-playing game |
| Mode(s) | Multiplayer |
BrowserQuest is a free software Massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Little Workshop and Mozilla Foundation.[1][2]
Technology
BrowserQuest is written in HTML5 and WebSockets and is playable from modern web browsers. The client makes use of HTML5's canvas element to render the graphics, web workers to initialize the map without affecting the rest of the page, localStorage to save your progress, media queries are used to dynamically resize the game to the device, and HTML5 Audio to render the sound. The server uses node.js communicating with the browser using WebSockets. BrowserQuest is a demonstration of the technology that it uses.
Both BrowserQuest's client and server source code are available on GitHub.[2] Its code is licensed under MPL 2.0. Content is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.[3]
Game play
In BrowserQuest players can interact with each other using the in-game chat system or by working together to defeat enemies.[2] There are achievements available to unlock as you play. loot is dropped when you defeat the enemies, which can be picked up by any player. Loot includes the invincibility potion, which changes your outfit to appear like the Firefox logo, and various gear. At one point the system registered more than 1900 players on at the same time.[4][5][6]
References
- ↑ Creative Bloq Staff (2012-12-19). "The top 10 HTML5 games of 2012". Creative Bloq. Future plc. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- 1 2 3 Rouget, Paul (2012-03-27). "BrowserQuest – a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment". Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog. Mozilla Foundation. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- ↑ "BrowserQuest/LICENSE". GitHub. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- ↑ Kayatta, Mike (2012-03-28). "Mozilla Releases Browser Quest, a Punny, Free-to-Play MMO". The Escapist. Defy Media. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- ↑ Holly, Russell (2012-03-27). "Surrender an hour of your day to Mozilla's Browser Quest". Geek.com. Ziff Davis. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.
- ↑ Paul, Ryan (2012-03-27). "Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming". Ars Technica. Condé Nast. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2016-09-19.