3D browser apps and games creep ever closer with the WebGL draft standard
Draft standards rarely undergo many changes, and most of the important details and unique selling points are now set in stone. There are already nascent, developer versions of WebGL built into beta versions of Firefox, Safari and Chrome -- and now, with the draft standard in place, you can expect to see rapid development of both full WebGL support in the browser, and applications that can utilize the new technology.
Don't expect to see first-person shooters like Modern Warfare 2 rendered in-browser for a while though; it's still very much early days. First you'll see 3D-editing tools, then simple virtual worlds, and eventually in-browser 3D games that rival their native-code cousins.
[via CNET]
The Illusionist's Dream is a simple platformer; you play as a magician who needs to get through each level by transforming into any number of animals that you encounter along the way.
Each animal can do different things; the butterfly can obviously fly, but if it encounters a frog, the frog eats it, and you have to start over again. There's also a fox that runs fast and leaps far, but it eats any rabbits that cross its path. That means that, if you may need to be a rabbit later on, you need to take that into account ...
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gameplace123 said 12:54PM on 12-11-2009
Welcome to Web 4.0. Where nothing will run natively on you computer... not even games (MW 3 ?).
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Duder318is said 2:07PM on 12-11-2009
That's actually CoD 4...Crossfire is the map =)
http://www.videosift.com/video/Playing-GTA-4-in-your-browser
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Sebastian Anthony said 6:09PM on 12-11-2009
The external-rendering thing is neat, but separate -- that's the whole 'OnLive' thing. Process it remotely, then stream to the browser.
I can't imagine that beating actual rendering IN the browser... but we'll see :)
gameplace123 said 5:36PM on 12-11-2009
lol, I know what game it is, I was saying you might see Modern Warfare 3 on a browser.
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torment said 3:48PM on 12-12-2009
thanks.
It's Persian Gulf BTW :) Not ARABIAN GULF.
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