This product was not featured by Product Hunt yet. It will not be visible on their landing page and won't be ranked (cannot win product of the day regardless of upvotes).
BrowserQuest was originally built by Mozilla + Little Workshop as an experiment to showcase real-time multiplayer browser gaming, and it ended up becoming one of the coolest examples of what early HTML5 could do. Sharing this for nostalgia and preservation. Curious how many people here actually played the original when Mozilla first released it
Missed BrowserQuest first time around. I was still emotionally recovering from Sierra On-Line. Space Quest, Police Quest, the trauma of dying in increasingly creative ways and reloading from a floppy disk. Different era, same obsession with what games could do with the technology available. Preservation projects like this matter. Someone needs to remember what we were capable of before we knew what we were doing!
About BrowserQuest on Product Hunt
“Revived Mozilla's first MMO game”
BrowserQuest was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 6 upvotes and 2 comments, placing #58 on the daily leaderboard. Play Mozilla's BrowserQuest, an HTML5 massively multiplayer game demo powered by WebSockets!
BrowserQuest was featured in MMOs (1.6k followers), GitHub (41.2k followers) and Games (98.5k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 45.8k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted BrowserQuest?
BrowserQuest was hunted by Jitendra. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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BrowserQuest was originally built by Mozilla + Little Workshop as an experiment to showcase real-time multiplayer browser gaming, and it ended up becoming one of the coolest examples of what early HTML5 could do. Sharing this for nostalgia and preservation. Curious how many people here actually played the original when Mozilla first released it