Mozilla Is Working With Unity To Bring Native Game Performance To The Web
Over the last year, Mozilla has been steadily working with Unity Technologies, the maker of the Unity game engine which powers quite a few of the modern games that are being built. While games have made headway into mobile, on the desktop games are mostly limited to native applications for operating systems such as Windows, Mac and Linux. Mozilla’s new ASM.js technology aims to make the browser the centerpiece of the next gaming revolution.
Unity has now announced support for Mozilla’s ASM.js and WebGL, technologies which translate native code to full-fledged Javascript capable of running natively in the browser. This makes most graphics intensive games easily playable in your web browser. Unity did have support for web games previously but it was based on a Web plugin. The plugin architecture for bringing games to the browser while functional is not the most efficient way. With this new integration, games developed in Unity can be exported directly to the web without using the web plugin. This makes game deployment and development easier. Mozilla’s technology will work on all modern browsers with Javascript support, but they will be a bit slower compared to Firefox.
Here is a demo of some high end games being rendered and played on Firefox.
As you can see, the performance is incredibly fluid for a web browser. This technology could be a game changer for Firefox and also for the web as a console for modern games. The company has also partnered with Epic to bring ASM.js and Web GL support for the Unreal Engine 4. The technology is still currently in a demo stage and will be available in an early access beta with the launch of Unity 5.
This is good news for game developers who want to get their games to reach out to as many gamers as possible and remove the entry barriers posed by consoles and operating systems. With games in the future being cross-compatible across platforms by default, the underlying software will end up being a moot point.
Source | Mozilla Blog
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