Browser quest

[Nando]

http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/browserquest-is-pure-html5-gaming-goodness/

[Gogan]

Really cool! Makes me wish I hadn't taken a bunch of flash classes in college. Oh well

[Nando]

It's a pretty cool proof of concept. I don't thin Flash is going away any time soon, but did you see this?


http://www.webmonkey.com/2012/03/got-a-profitable-flash-based-video-game-adobe-wants-a-cut/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wired%2Findex+%28Wired%3A+Index+3+%28Top+Stories+2%29%29&utm_content=Google+Feedfetcher

[Gogan]

No, flash will be around for a bit, I agree. But this revenue sharing ain't helping adobe much. I know a handful of flash developers (not jus for games) that are pretty much leaving flash in the past. I'd imagine it'll happen everywhere eventually. Even my flash I instructor said they are planning on phasing out flash from the curriculum.

[Nando]

wow, that's something. What would take the place of Flash in their curriculum?

html5 seems promising, from several angles. As with anything the standards and all that stuff takes a while. The canvas stuff is neat and the gaming capabilities seem pretty cool. It's a good time to be a gamer to say the least.

[RegalSin]

That entire thing is pure JAVA. That is nothing new, folks. HTML was good the way it was from the prehistoric monsters, of the "Bob" days, to the late days of geocities ( American I am talking about ).

Flash in it self is a great thing, ( up till flash 8 ) that allows you to make a program without little or no programming knowledge.

Seriously their was tons of web browser games out their, and Why the hell should I have to upgrade my web browser to play a god forsaken network game? It should make more sense to use program that has little or nothing to do with HTML.

Flash does a better job no matter what, but in terms of real videogames people should stick to C programming at least. Tha is where everything went wrong. They took C and turned into a low level programming language, and made everybody felt smart, but they just caused more trouble then help, because now nobody thaught they needed ASM.
What sucks even more is how their is a D++ languages out their now.
What kinda of stupid world are we living in. Lets rename functions and
give them differnt meanings. Why not just build on what everybody knows and give options.

Speaking of dumb. I tried to make a HTML page on a computer running seven yesterday and the damn thing will not open the page?

[roflmao]

Speaking of dumb. I tried to make a HTML page on a computer running seven yesterday and the damn thing will not open the page?

What were you using to write the HTML code?  Notepad?  Wordpad?  Something else?  I use Windows 7 but do most of my coding in Notepad++, which is a free alternative to the built in Notepad. 

What browser does it have installed?  I do most of my testing with the latest Chrome, but then test in all the popular browser before letting anyone else see it. :p

[grahf]

Very cool. It works great on Firefox Mobile for Android, which is pretty impressive. I know it's a pretty basic game, but comparable Flash stuff on the stock Android browser runs like garbage.