''BrowserQuest'' was a
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massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by French developer
Little Workshop
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and the
Mozilla Foundation.
The official website is currently defunct, attributed to lack of resources.
Technology
''BrowserQuest'' is a demonstration of a number of modern web technologies. It is written in
HTML5, utilizing
WebSockets for multiplayer networking, and is playable from modern web browsers. The
client makes use of HTML5's
canvas element to render the graphics,
web worker
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s to
initialize the map without affecting the rest of the page,
localStorage to save progress,
media queries to dynamically resize the game to the device, and
HTML5 Audio to render the sound. The
server
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is written in JavaScript, and runs in
Node.js
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. The server and browser communicate using
WebSockets.
Both ''BrowserQuest's'' client and server source code are available on
GitHub
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.
Its code is licensed under
MPL 2.0
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. Content is licensed under
CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gameplay
In ''BrowserQuest'', players can interact with each other using the in-game
chat
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system, or by working together to defeat enemies.
There are
achievement
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s available to unlock as one plays.
Loot is dropped when players defeat the enemies, which can be picked up by any player. Loot includes the invincibility potion, which changes a player's outfit to appear like the
Firefox logo, and various gear. At one point in time, the system recorded over 1,900 concurrent users playing at the same time.
References
External links
*{{Official website, https://browserquest.mozilla.org/
Original BrowserQuest source code dump repository on GitHub
Mozilla
Massively multiplayer online role-playing games