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Have you seen BananaBread? It is a fully runnable 3d game that does all the AI, physics, etc. It's compiled with emscripten (I'm not sure if the online version

Have you seen BananaBread? It is a fully runnable 3d game that does all the AI, physics, etc. It's compiled with emscripten (I'm not sure if the online version uses asm.js yet, but it just needs to be recompiled). https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread

cromwellian 14y ago
Yes, I've seen it, but "physics" in this case means ragdoll physics, it's not like Havok/PhsyX or anything that modern game engines uses. These things are impressive for Web demos, but the question you need to be asking is, what would someone who visited GDC or E3 to see console or desktop games say about it? Would they pay $39 for it, or would they think it looks like a toy compared to what the other vendors are showing? End users don't care what something is implemented it, how open it is, all the stuff that hackers care about. All they see is a game, and they will compare it to other games that are implemented with different technologies. You won't get bonus points because you managed to implement it in a difficult environment.
- jlongster 14y ago
  This is all early stuff, yes. We aren't quite at the point yet where people can sell AAA games for $40 on the web. But I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, and what we are showing that it's certainly possible with some more work (not a huge amount, either). End users could benefit greatly; just click on a URL and immediately start playing a game! The game needs to be on par with native, yes, but if we can pull this off there are huge benefits for distributing over the web. Note that the Bullet physics engine was compiling with emscripten into a library called "ammo.js" and is somewhat of a standard for 3d games on the web.
  - mtgx 14y ago
    Since WebGL uses the same graphics API as the mobile devices right now, you're only going to see mobile apps being ported to. It just gives developers one more platform to port to.

cromwellian 14y ago

Yes, I've seen it, but "physics" in this case means ragdoll physics, it's not like Havok/PhsyX or anything that modern game engines uses. These things are impressive for Web demos, but the question you need to be asking is, what would someone who visited GDC or E3 to see console or desktop games say about it? Would they pay $39 for it, or would they think it looks like a toy compared to what the other vendors are showing? End users don't care what something is implemented it, how open it is, all the stuff that hackers care about. All they see is a game, and they will compare it to other games that are implemented with different technologies. You won't get bonus points because you managed to implement it in a difficult environment.

jlongster 14y ago
This is all early stuff, yes. We aren't quite at the point yet where people can sell AAA games for $40 on the web. But I wouldn't be surprised if it happens, and what we are showing that it's certainly possible with some more work (not a huge amount, either). End users could benefit greatly; just click on a URL and immediately start playing a game! The game needs to be on par with native, yes, but if we can pull this off there are huge benefits for distributing over the web. Note that the Bullet physics engine was compiling with emscripten into a library called "ammo.js" and is somewhat of a standard for 3d games on the web.
- mtgx 14y ago
  Since WebGL uses the same graphics API as the mobile devices right now, you're only going to see mobile apps being ported to. It just gives developers one more platform to port to.