First Person Shooter in Your Web Browser
By David Walker |
April 19th, 2006
Comments (2)
We really are seeing some seriously cool advancements on the web these days. From the sweetness of AJAX interfaces to this amazing piece of work from Rasterwerks - a single and multi-player first-person shooter, called Phosphor, that runs in your web browser (via Jason Bradbury). If you are a skeptic like me, you undoubtedly assume that the game is full of low-resolution, 10 frame per second hardly playable gaming. Amazingly, you and I would both be wrong.
According to Jason, the game is decent enough that “you’d be proud to buy for your PSP…” Aside from needing a few more levels, the game - which is still in Beta - plays very well. Multiplayer gaming can accomplished using peer-to-peer Internet or LAN connections, so you can game with friends on your quick LAN connection or over the Internet. Also, if you’re sporting a decent gaming machine, you can crank the graphics up and get a full screen experience from Phosphor. You will need the Macromedia Shockwave player to get into the game, but once installed, all you need to do is head to the site and play. Amazing.
April 20th, 2006 at 2:14 pm
There is nothing more to say!
July 20th, 2008 at 6:12 pm
I played Halo once. At my ex-girlfriends Dad’s home on his birthday. He and his son lived next door to each other. They had networked together and played everyday for hours against one another.
I played for 2 or 3 minutes and decided I hated Halo. Actually, I just hated them killing my character off within 3 or 4 seconds every time I regenerated.
This shooter in a web browser is a great idea and it plays as well as that Halo game did a few years back. I see the draw of it now. I played this thing
last night until 3:30 in the morning.