Cool cool cool ... though these kinds of browser proof-of-concepts have been around for a decade (more than a decade if you include Flash+alchemy running Quake).
Is the browser coming back as a gaming platform yet?
Is the browser coming back as a gaming platform yet?
If this shit becomes mainstream say goodbye to ever owning your data ever again
I don't want to rent something that doesn't recognize platform conventions or take full advantage of my hardware and storage, when it can and should have
Neither do I want to have to pay some rent-seeking wanterpreneurial fuck a monthly fee to access content that runs better locally
1. We're in that world now. You think you 'own' those mobile games you bought? You think games couldn't be pulled from your digital Steam library?
2. In the era of Flash and before mobile, browser gaming used to be a much much bigger thing.
Web will be huge for increasing accessibility, especially for casuals who have never downloaded Steam before. Imagine the Cambrian explosion that will take places when playing becomes as simple as clicking a link?
It has taken a decade, it will arrive without proper tooling, and require everyone to rewrite their shaders as well.
We've had Canvas/WebGPL since 2011. Emscripten came out 10 years ago. WebAssembly 5 years ago. I've seen countless of these kinds of demos over the last decade. Literally no difference between this one and what was demoed years ago.
So for years a plugin-free browser was good enough for 'modern fidelity' gaming - but it never happened.
There is no 'Cambrian explosion' coming. Casual mobile killed casual browser gaming.