Mozilla launches multiplayer browser adventure to showcase HTML5 gaming
March 28, 2012 | Source: Ars Technica
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.