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DEPRECATED - A HTML5/JavaScript multiplayer game experiment

13 mentions on Hacker News by 12 people: 4 stories, 9 comments · first 2012-03-27 · latest 2025-03-08

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  1. I really liked BrowserQuest, a "massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment": https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest https://hacks.mozilla.org/2012/03/browserquest/
    comment by grit6217 · 2022-06-02 · in Ask HN: Favourite open source game?
  2. Well there's this. https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest Doesn't work in Safari.
    comment by SenHeng · 2018-07-26 · in Is WebAssembly the Return of Java Applets and Flash?
  3. …favorite project. Our first web game, http://browserquest.mozilla.org , was actually open source: https://github.com/mozilla/Browserquest
    comment by guigui · 2017-11-28 · in Infinitown – A WebGL Experiment
  4. …when I type multiplayer in the searchbox, libraries such as https://github.com/lance-gg/lance or https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest dont show up. Where are you pulling your sources from? Are you using a github API?
    comment by redgetan · 2017-05-30 · in Show HN: Search JavaScript libraries
  5. …examples of clean modular JS that does not depend on a framework is Mozilla's browserquest: https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/tree/master/client/j... Many things that make life easier when making relatively small web apps also make…
    comment by sombremesa · 2016-02-29 · in React Makes You Sad?
  6. Why github is not showing json files correctly? https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/client/s... I can see only "{", to view the full i need to go to Raw format. I think Github should provide support for formatted json.
    comment by swapsmagic · 2012-03-27 · in Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
  7. …anyone wondering about the 2 mystery achievements at the end; the clues are in client/js/game.js ( https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/client/j... ), line 278. Hiding the clues in the code like that just adds to the…
    comment by michaelmartin · 2012-03-27 · in Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
  8. Really organized, easy reading source too: https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest Outstanding work that I'm sure is going to inspire a lot of people. Though I don't see a license file anywhere.
    comment by user2459 · 2012-03-27 · in Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment
  9. https://github.com/mozilla/BrowserQuest/blob/master/server It's weird to me that they list the node dependencies in the server README instead of using a package.json. Very cool project, though.
    comment by xtian · 2012-03-27 · in Mozilla's BrowserQuest - Massively Multiplayer HTML5 Experiment