[gameprogrammer] Re: Browser games

On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 11:21 -0700, Alan Wolfe wrote:
> a little unrelated...
> 
> i bet it would be possible to make a decent game with ajax and just
> straight up css/html.
> 
> it wouldnt be 3d or anything but i bet you could do thigns as
> complicated as a 2d overhead tiled game, and possibly a side scroller.

Yeah. Once SVG support gets into more browsers it looks like the
combination of SVG and AJAX will let you do some very nice games. 
I'm looking forward to it.

Maybe we have an opportunity here. With Firefox and friends getting more
popular maybe web standards can be developed that let you do great games
in browsers. 

                Bob Pendleton

> 
> maybe you could do 3d too by having the server render the images?
> maybe keep it wireframe?
> 
> but yeah - ajax could really be cool in making browser games
> 
> On 8/10/05, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > This discussion has got me thinking about how to do web based games
> > again. Try this on for an idea and let me know if it has already been
> > done.
> > 
> > Take one of the open source game engines (open source 'cause you can't
> > do this with the proprietary ones) and modify it so that it can run as a
> > browser plugin and register it to handle a mime type such as
> > application/x-irrlicht (for exampel if the irrlicht engine was used).
> > The engine would have to be modified to use the network for file access
> > and would have to have some security mods. AFAIK each of these engines
> > have a file format that they use to represent a world, once you have
> > installed the plugin you could browse to one of those files and enter
> > the world. All the custom code would have to be done in a scripting
> > language built into the plugin. And,the browser cache can be used to
> > keep the games around for a while so you only have to download them
> > once.
> > 
> > How does that sound for an interesting project?
> > 
> >                 Bob Pendleton
> > 
> > 
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