Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming

March 28, 2012 | Source: Ars Technica
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Browser Quest (credit: Mozilla)

Mozilla’s BrowserQuest game shows how you can use JavaScript and HTML5 to create interactive multimedia experiences and application-like user interfaces without plugins.

The developers focused on using widely supported standards so that the game would work well across a wide range of desktop and mobile browsers. It works just as well on a tablet device, for example, as it does on a desktop computer.

There are a number of pending Web standards that will allow for features like 3D graphics and support for game controller peripherals, for example.

More: Mozilla’s wiki, the Mozilla Hacks blog, and the backend server code on GitHub.