Any of you has seen games in HTML, CSS and JavaScript? Web browsers can run JavaScript and show HTML pretty fast.
Plus there is keyboard and mouse ways to get input. Even ways to save data.
But I have only seen simple games like Tic Tac Joe, avoid obstacles with mouse, tower of hanoi... The most complicated was chess.
If you have seen something more interesting, share the game.
But some ASCII RPG could be doable. I am not thinking in doing one but I will try to come some nifty scripts to get keyboard and mouse input, and other stuff. One objective is to be most cross browsers compatible possible.
What I want to discuss is the enormous possibilities.
I have some ideas:
- through AJAX, we can have multi player through the Internet and a Web Server running PHP, for instance. A RPG with single player and multiple player could be nice.
- ASCII mapper (BW and colours)
- Raycasting with ASCII and colours (Ben Ryves has actually done that already, see his gamedev or site journal)
I know some disadvantages:
- Cross browser problems
- With only JavaScript it is impossible to avoid cheating because the source code is a available. Cheating is always a possibility even if very hard, though.
Maybe later I can do some game like Hunt or runner. For now I will come with the scripts to see if it gains interest. I have started a PHP lib to save data on a file. Maybe I can add other useful stuff. With XAMPP is very easy to start a web server and play some game that requires it.
EDIT:
I searched a bit and found one interesting site:
http://www.javascriptgaming.com/There is some JavaScript games libs like:
http://gamequery.onaluf.org/It could be interesting some JavaScript gaming in Omnimaga.
What you think?
PS: I am not quitting calc stuff, although I am doing more web related things. It is question of time to get bored with web stuff.