Mozilla Teams Up With Humble Bundle To Offer Eight Plugin-Free Games 67
An anonymous reader writes Mozilla and Humble Bundle announced a new package that features award-winning indie best-sellers for which gamers can choose how much they want to pay. Naturally called the Humble Mozilla Bundle, the package consists of eight games that have been ported to the Web. The first five games (Super Hexagon, AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome, Osmos, Zen Bound 2, and Dustforce DX) can cost you whatever you want. The next two (Voxatron and FTL: Faster Than Light) can be had if you beat the average price for the bundle. You can pay $8 or more to receive all of the above, plus the last game, Democracy 3. Previously, all of these indie games were available only on PC or mobile. Now they all work in browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux without having to install any plugins.
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Hits from the Name Generator... (Score:4, Funny)
"...The first five games...AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome,.."
How the hell did you come up with...wait, don't tell me. The bong fell over on the keyboard, right?
Re:Hits from the Name Generator... (Score:4, Funny)
Tarzan not see problem with name...
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Nope. 'twas intentional.
Look at it... 1 capital A, 2 capital As, 3 capital As, 4 capital As, 5 capital As.
In between are 4 lowecase a's, 3 lowercase a's, 2 lowercase a's, and a final lowecase a.
In other words, there was no way that was done AAAAAccidentaaaally.
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"...The first five games...AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! for the Awesome,.."
How the hell did you come up with...wait, don't tell me. The bong fell over on the keyboard, right?
It's the sound players make if you play the game with an Occulus rift headset.
Even more than that... (Score:3, Informative)
The Humble Bundle says "Another Game Coming Soon". The way Humble Bundle does things, they'll throw this game in for free to people who paid for the revevant threshold (which is the "beat the average" price, which is $5.30 at the time of this writing).
Also, the games have trial versions. (At least Super Hexagon and Voxatron, which I've tried.) Unfortunately, Voxatron had no online instructions included in the game, so it was a while before I learned that in addition to X for shooting forward (and Z for jump, and arrow keys), there was directional shooting (with I, J, K, L, or multiple keys for diagonals).
Awesome stuff. Gotta always love the Humble Bundle. However, why does *this* particular bundle show up on Slashdot?
Now they all work in browsers on Windows, Mac, and Linux without having to install any plugins.
The only reason I can guess, regarding why this particular release would be newsworthy, is that this Humble Bundle package was meant to highlight the capabilities of Asm.js (which just didn't seem to be focused on much in Slashdot's summary... there's a couple of mentions to not needing plugins, but the phrase Asm.js doesn't even show up in Slashdot's text.)
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why does *this* particular bundle show up on Slashdot?
I guess because THIS one is now in firefox's start/home page.
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There aren't that many options for browsers, in particular major non crashy ones. Without Mozilla I would probably have to run Windows NT 6.x and Internet Explorer.
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There are plenty, including Chrome, IE, Safari, Opera.
And if you are into Firefox functionality such as add-ons, there are fully functional forks that keep most of the functionality such as Pale Moon.
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It's going to go down even further now that one of the most popular Firefox forks for those that dropped Firefox for UI reasons, Pale Moon will now start to carry its own identifier by default.
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Pale Moon sits on top of ESR, and they had to switch to a different identifier for the browser because they aren't going with australis insanity.
So far, they appear to be fine. You may want to check them out if you want to keep most of your plugins working, and your interface PC-centric rather than tablet-centric that mozilla is gunning for.
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Emperor is still not wearing any clothes, and no matter how much you herald ACs are trumpeting about it, he's still out there, still naked, still ugly as fuck.
And hence, people are still leaving FF for any options available when they're not using FF on tablets. Because as of typing this, FF is no longer a desktop browser and hasn't been one for a while. Yes it can be installed on a desktop, but it's in no way, shape or form designed or optimized for desktop usage scenario any more.
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Yes.
I don't since the prices are so reasonable (and for the small risk I guess.)
I'd argue the other way around. This is 2014. The market has caught up and offer decent services. It's ok to pay now.
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Or well, if one got one wish more it would be to actually OWN the games and not the LICENSE and to know you'd have access "FOREVER" and even better "FOR ALL PLATFORMS." .. ok, more than one wish. But yeah. Actually have the game, always, everywhere, no matter what!
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Pirate Bay doesn't own the games, nor does it host them. Therefore you can't steal them from Pirate Bay no matter how much you would like to try.
FTL (Score:4, Informative)
FTL is pretty fun. Imagine Rouge with graphics and spaceships. It's pretty well done. You'll probably beat it in a few days though.
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Need the following events:
[SPOILER WARNING!]
Encounter a choice between taking weapons specs or some broken stasis pod.
Choose the pod.
Jump to a Zoltan sector.
Encounter a Zoltan research center conducting research for extended FTL flight.
Choose to give the pod to them to fix. You will gain a crystalline crew.
Jump to a Rock Homeworld before reaching the 8th sector. (If it is 8th sector, you do not get a blue choice from the following encounter.)
Encounter a mysterious artifact in space.
Choose to open a portal (
Re: FTL (Score:2)
+1 for FTL awesomeness.
However, I'm disappointed they have yet to port it to Android, and instead chose to focus on porting to a browser platform, which to me counts as a useless gimmick since it's only really playable on browsers on a desktop platforms, for which they have ports for all platforms anyway.
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You know... Android does have browsers...
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Imagine Rouge with graphics and spaceships.
Why would I imagine makeup [wikipedia.org] rather than a video game [wikipedia.org]?
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Because as WoW has shown us, nothing is hated as much as makeup coming from stealth and killing you in stun.
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They are all last ones. Since it's anal.
Democarcy (Score:3)
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Jokes aside, Democracy game series is critically acclaimed and regarded as even educational.
Nothing on the underlying technology? (Score:5, Informative)
asm.js [asmjs.org] is the underlying technology they used to port the games to the web. According to Wikipedia [wikipedia.org], "asm.js is an intermediate programming language consisting of a strict subset of the JavaScript language. It enables significant performance improvements for web applications that are written in statically-typed languages with manual memory management (such as C) and then translated to JavaScript by a source-to-source compiler."
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It's interesting given that Mozilla fired their CEO that invented JavaScript. Is there a social justice warrior game in this bundle?
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He made a small donation to a popular cause. He's not demonic.
The truth hurts sometimes, deal with it.
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It is more of an assembly language written in javascript, you are not supposed to write it by hand, you compile your C/C++ code into it.
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AFAIK, it's just using emscripten, a backend for LLVM that compiles to js. The tutorial for compiling a C hello world to js looks fairly clear. Anyone tried this?
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Unfortunately, I cannot show off my own work, but others have been using it for some time as well
http://www.quakejs.com/ [quakejs.com]
http://crypt-webgl.unigine.com... [unigine.com]
and many more can be found here: https://github.com/kripken/ems... [github.com]
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yeah that's always bugged me as well, at least since the market steered away from the reference to "XT compatible" or whatever it was and genericised it to "PC" or "Mac". My last Mac ran Linux, what category does that fall under?? Hell, for that matter, this laptop runs Mac OS, Linux, FreeBSD, DOS and xp sandboxed on a Win7 host. Hey, Computer Darwin - this one's got fur and a beak!
Re:More mind numbing web based games? (Score:4, Informative)
These aren't flash games. Granted, some of the games on offer actually ARE mind-numbing, but FTL definitely isn't
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To be fair, it would not be too hard to implement a game like FTL in flash. It's a text based adventure + static small scale RTS combat. All of these are done on much more complex level in flash today.
Probably easier than implementing it in bastardized version of javascript as was done here.
Search for text when i start typing (Score:1)
On the FireFox start page the game can't be controlled if you have "Search for text when I start typing" enabled in options.
I just found 4,000 DOS games on a HDD (Score:2)
...this gives me ideas for monetising them... anyone fancy helping with runtesting them in a DOS sandbox?
No need for new games (Score:1)
I don't need new games. I still haven't found the last rooms in the mud I play.
Broken WebGL (Score:2)
Sadly on a particular computer all WebGL looks like this, even though OpenGL works in other apps.
http://i.imgur.com/Aoj38Ra.png [imgur.com]
Maybe running the proprietary graphics driver would make it work, but it has or had just one particular little bug meaning graphics card or monitor would have to be changed. Well, no. The graphics card is only 8 year old but with lots of gigaflops and few watts, and monitor only 10 year old.
wow (Score:1)