7.2 /10 1 Votes
Publisher(s) Mozilla Foundation | 3.6/5 Google Play Mode Multiplayer video game | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Developer(s) Little Workshop and Mozilla Foundation Genre Massively multiplayer online role-playing game Similar Unknown Horizons, Warmux, Voxelstein 3D, Amulets & Armor, Ken's Labyrinth | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Browserquest massively multiplayer html5 game demo
BrowserQuest is a free software Massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by Little Workshop and Mozilla Foundation.
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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. Its code is licensed under MPL 2.0. Content is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
Game play
In BrowserQuest players can interact with each other using the in-game chat system or by working together to defeat enemies. 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.