{"id":2088,"date":"2010-01-08T18:16:34","date_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/?p=2088"},"modified":"2010-01-08T18:16:34","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T18:16:34","slug":"making-history-ii-on-your-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/2010\/01\/08\/making-history-ii-on-your-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"Making History II on your browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not enough of a tech head to really make much sense out of the details here, but the announcement that next month&#8217;s <em>Making History II<\/em> will be played in a browser strikes me as something different for PC gaming. A 3D engine running in your browser?<\/p>\n<p>There is a great discussion in the comments, where the piece&#8217;s author, Matt Seegmiller, explains that this idea is a fusion of ideas that are constantly mixing at Muzzy Lane.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Something that probably didn&#8217;t come across in the article is that this technology was not developed specifically for Making History II. We additionally have about a half dozen serious games currently in production using this same technology, including a DARPA funded project to create games for middle school science. We were originally founded on the idea that 3D multiplayer games could teach people something. To that end, we found integrating our games with the web almost a necessity, allowing for much more intuitive multiplayer lobbies and much easier install paths. Plus you end up with integration into existing web infrastructures, like social networks and learning management systems.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So is this tech a big step forward? If anyone here can really explain how this is an advantage for the gamer, I&#8217;d love to hear it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not enough of a tech head to really make much sense out of the details here, but the announcement that next month&#8217;s Making History II will be played in a browser strikes me as something different for PC gaming. A 3D engine running in your browser? There is a great discussion in the comments, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[24,19],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5GFeQ-xG","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2089,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2088\/revisions\/2089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flashofsteel.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}