The History of Game Portability It is not news that game developers yearn for easier and more accessible ways to distribute their creations, in fact, this dates back to the era of Nintendo 64 and Playstation 1 games when most companies exchanged assembly for C /C++ for greater portability. The Flash and MMORPGs Games Era With the birth of the internet, it was no different, who doesn't remember the golden age of Flash games or the famous ? They both marked entire generations with games that inspire game developers to this day, but not everything is a bed of roses, with the , more precisely on December 31st, and, with the and favor of more dynamic styles like , that seemed the end of a history of game portability via the web. MMORPGs end of support for Adobe Flash Player in 2020 fall of MMORPGs MOBA With the rise of , the idea of ​​game portability saw a new light. , or , is a low-level language that runs inside the browser transforming it into a virtual machine, its intentions are portability through the browser and running any application natively and, in my opinion, the best part, it's a language-independent implementation, that is, you can use any and all languages ​​you want for the browser, as long as the compiler supports it, most of which already support it. WebAssembly WebAssembly wasm Possibilities of Game Development in WASM C/C++ and C# are the most used languages ​​in the games industry, both of which are already compatible with . With C/C++ with the compiler and C# with the , there is a tendency, or rather, a possibility of the emergence of a new era of browser-based games, where instead of the player needing to download a launcher, he can simply enter a website and log in to his account. wasm Emscripten Unity game engine How About JS? Just remembering that was not made as a replacement for Javascript, but rather an alternative, so much so that, despite wasm not having access to the DOM, it can “talk” to Javascript, which helps with integration for a simple website or a login system by users. wasm The End? Although, nowadays, there are many technologies covering wasm, the future of browser games still seems a bit uncertain, between the flash games era and today, there was the rise of online mobile games, so much so that many games of this kind since migrated to smartphones such as, for example, the game . Ragnarok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9bhajsAfmE?embedable=true Dont Forget to Share, Like and Comment. Image Credits to: ; , , T Yash Rana Unity Nintendo Blast alk Android; Trailer by Tecent.

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