Unreal Engine 3 to the browser, no plugins necessary

[techbeck]

In an effort to showcase the potential of browser-based gaming, Mozilla has teamed with Epic Games to bring the developer's Unreal Engine 3 to browsers ? with no need for any plugins. To accomplish such a feat, Mozilla put together a "highly-optimized" version of JavaScript. Porting Epic's hugely popular engine to the browser took only four days, according to the below video. That doesn't make the result any less impressive, however: Unreal Engine 3 appears to run smoothly with nary a hiccup or stutter in sight. "With this port, developers will soon be able to explore limitless possibilities when it comes to porting their popular gaming titles to the web," reads a blog post at Mozilla. Both companies say performance resembles that of a native game.

The Unreal Engine 3 demo will be made available within a few weeks time, and Mozilla is also planning to apply a similar formula to mobile. "We are working with premium game publishers such as Disney, EA and ZeptoLab who are using the same technology to bring performance optimizations to their top-rated games," the company says.

http://www.theverge....wser-no-plugins

Vid in source.

[Motoko.]

Does this mean Flash is finished?

[Noir Angel]

I get the feeling that the licensing cost of third party gaming engines will hamper the spread of this idea, but it's certainly promising. Most Flash games lag like hell so it would be good to see more Internet games running on proper gaming engines.

[Blackhearted]

Same old content in that demo that we've been seeing for years.

[Farchord]

Same old content in that demo that we've been seeing for years.

That is not the point of the demo, though.