Mac OS gaming is rising rapidly, graphics/OpenGL stuff get constant updates. Steam is already there. Even MM is making a KAG port for Mac (I was shocked to know actually, in a good way).

„Oh btw, Chrome 15 has a nice feature which lets you add interesting “apps” to the new tab page. Those apps are things like YouTube, Facebook, Google+, GMail and so on. This is exactly the future.”

You must have some sort of local cached copy anyway (offline mode) to be able to use apps outside 3g/wi-fi networks. So it’s like (almost) the same applications but written in html5/css3/js. With no to little system integration.

„No more installing hassle, just click and go! This is how games should be, you click the icon you want to play, no downloading, no installing, no bullshit. Just click and play, simple!”

And people in 10 years after that will invent a new way to play games. Without constant „downloading content” messages, with good ping, with ability to play using wi-fi/bluetooth only… binary games, so exciting!

HDD is slow, using SSD you can cut game loading time in half. Using internet connection — ??? Just think about internet-only (no files on the PC) MMORPG. Like WoW.

You can check out the games released in the past 5 years and count all the games which have ANY OpenGL functionality and realize that OpenGL in the game industry is like Linux in the desktop world, only the select few bother the hassle and others couldnt give a fuck. Useless for the masses, important for the loud few. Oh and Carmack himself prefers DirectX… …and consoles.

Oh btw, Chrome 15 has a nice feature which lets you add interesting “apps” to the new tab page. Those apps are things like YouTube, Facebook, Google+, GMail and so on. This is exactly the future. This is what your desktops will become. No more installing hassle, just click and go! This is how games should be, you click the icon you want to play, no downloading, no installing, no bullshit. Just click and play, simple!

I’d really like Soldat 2 to run on a browser, accessible to anyone, everywhere, anytime! Just click and go, you get to blast people away with that LAW without ANY hassle! Who can honestly say that they would NOT like that? I can’t think of a single negative reason against this kind of progress apart from the fact that it requires a working internet connection, which might not be available to some people. However, those people wouldn’t really be the target audience anyway, so itäs not a big deal in the big picture.

People in mid 90s talked about it as it’s near future stuff. But it’s 2011 now and it haven’t taken off yet.

„This is partly a reason why OpenGL won’t be matching DirectX in rendering efficiency, because no one uses it in games. All the focus is on DirectX because it’s a de-facto standard in the (PC/XO side of the) industry.”

No one? What about Blizzard, ID, EA? DirectX isn’t crossplatform.

All I am saying is that there isn’t much of a reason NOT to make your game web based, if you consider it an option right now. Yes, there are performance issues, lag issues, compatibility issues(as not every browser is 100 % identical). However, most of these are not serious. Most people don’t care about them *if the game is good*. As I said before, a game like Soldat is possible to be made run in the browser already. Someone just has to make it a seamless experience with no hassle. Just point your browser to http://www.soldat.pl and GAME ON. Simple!

Perhaps in most “gamer” circles such “browser games” are considerd a joke, that’s for sure. But that is again because of people being afraid of change. People think that no *REAL* games run on browsers. But I have to admit that it’s not good either to be ahead of your time. People will resist everything new. Most will not adapt because something new is superior. They adapt because everyone *ELSE* adapts.