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You already can, Unity has their own section of Unity on the web games you can play. They aren't graphically impressive usually but comes down to lack of develo

You already can, Unity has their own section of Unity on the web games you can play. They aren't graphically impressive usually but comes down to lack of development resources. Then there's examples like Townscraper (https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ https://oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/) which are graphically nice and already playable on the browser. There are also many games on itch.io of varying quality, but IMO Townscraper is the nicest. The problem of storage is also quite important, it's hard to push a high quality game on the browser when a lot of people won't stick around for the 10GB+ download needed, not like they would if they're downloading from the Xbox store or something like that. So it's a bit of a cultural issue as well on that front.

cmovq 4y ago
I don't think it's a cultural issue. The difference is you only have to download a game once from the store compared to downloading 10GB+ every time you load the webpage.
- waboremo 4y ago
  Quite a lot of cache storage can be used and can be expanded on as well if there was a serious demand for it. Browser games don't technically have to redownload the entire game every load. The reason I claimed it as "cultural" is because of how we view browsers and interactive media within them. We are totally fine with opening a games store app, clicking download, and waiting and playing. The same is technically possible within the browser, but people are far less likely to wait for it. It's like sound. People are OK with video games with clicky sounds going through menus with background music playing, but find it very obnoxious if a website does the same. Not a technical problem, but one of culture and how we view the mediums.
  - pjmlp 4y ago
    No it can't, for security reasons. Browser games have no idea how long their data is around and how big the cache actually is.
- flohofwoe 4y ago
  You need to design a web game around the download bandwidth, and only stream data right when it's needed instead of preloading everything upfront. Porting existing games with a different streaming model usually doesn't make much sense. And once you build a web game from the ground up anyway, there's little reason to use one of the humongous game engines like Unity or Unreal which have been designed for a very different data streaming approach.
eecc 4y ago
Well, you don't need to download the whole world data-file to play the game. All you need is to stream whatever you can possibly interact in the next couple seconds.
- londons_explore 4y ago
  You can also load low-res textures and models for users who just showed up, and then, as they have been playing for hours/days, upgrade to better higher quality models.

cmovq 4y ago

I don't think it's a cultural issue. The difference is you only have to download a game once from the store compared to downloading 10GB+ every time you load the webpage.

waboremo 4y ago
Quite a lot of cache storage can be used and can be expanded on as well if there was a serious demand for it. Browser games don't technically have to redownload the entire game every load. The reason I claimed it as "cultural" is because of how we view browsers and interactive media within them. We are totally fine with opening a games store app, clicking download, and waiting and playing. The same is technically possible within the browser, but people are far less likely to wait for it. It's like sound. People are OK with video games with clicky sounds going through menus with background music playing, but find it very obnoxious if a website does the same. Not a technical problem, but one of culture and how we view the mediums.
- pjmlp 4y ago
  No it can't, for security reasons. Browser games have no idea how long their data is around and how big the cache actually is.
flohofwoe 4y ago
You need to design a web game around the download bandwidth, and only stream data right when it's needed instead of preloading everything upfront. Porting existing games with a different streaming model usually doesn't make much sense. And once you build a web game from the ground up anyway, there's little reason to use one of the humongous game engines like Unity or Unreal which have been designed for a very different data streaming approach.

eecc 4y ago

Well, you don't need to download the whole world data-file to play the game. All you need is to stream whatever you can possibly interact in the next couple seconds.

londons_explore 4y ago
You can also load low-res textures and models for users who just showed up, and then, as they have been playing for hours/days, upgrade to better higher quality models.