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Browser-based 3D FPS game

by Blake Snow on Mar 17th 2006 3:29AM

Joystiq reader Ryan stumbled upon a multi-player browser-based first-person shooter (that's a mouthful) called Phosphor. The game, developed by Rasterwerks, is in beta so it's not without it's problems. It locked up our mouse in Firefox when playing, but the overall initial experience was rather smooth and impressive. Check it out!

Note: this baby takes more load time than a PSP and you'll need to have Shockwave 10.1 to run it.

[Thanks, Ryan]

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wow... totaly cool. gonna try it when i get home from work to see if it'll run in safari or firefox for os x. can't wait to see final result. and maybe other great online 3d browser games, come on multiplayer racing sim!

game textures look almost identicle to Halo's. Just look at the grass, water, walls, everything. lol. But still, this game looks to have potential, just because its online. Imagine the possibilities with having internet on your handheld gaming device and games like this. There would no longer be a need for UMDs and Cartridges.

me so impressed!

Imagine the possibilities with having internet on your handheld gaming device and games like this. There would no longer be a need for UMDs and Cartridges.

In the case of PSP you would still need Flash :-)
I bet Sony will finally come out with Flashpalyer for PSP..........compatible with Flash 9.0 :-))

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That is pretty damn impressive...my work pc struggles to run most FPS games but this one worked perfectly!

more ways to waste time at work! sadly i didn't find anyone to shot!

Impressive! Found a review for it over at Jayisgames: http://jayisgames.com/archives/2006/03/phosphor_beta_1.php

finally a new beta! it took over a year for godsakes. last week i searched who the net for this game and now i discover this post, thank you!!

Are you supossed to just run around with no one else on the map?

Because l was and no one else was on. I'm not sure if this is a online fps or your supossed to be playing bots...

go to options you can turn on bots or join a server with other people

booooo! this crap is windows only. now if adobe would just release shockwave for linux, everything would be solved...

i played this on OSX so no its not windows only

I played it for a bit and it's not bad. I only ran into a couple of problems. The only browser based fps I've have been crap, until now.

This is impressive! I just wish that I liked FPS games.

Ya, when I found this yesterday I made sure to submit it right away. I thought a bunch of you guys wouold really enjoy it.

I managed to find my way out of the level, by falling into some abyss with no way out. So, its a bit buggy, but I could see myself having fun with this game for its multiplayer capabilities. The visuals are not bad, but nowhere near identical to halo. Has anyone successfully entered a multiplayer game?

As Vader once said..."Most impressive."

Have strong potential. Imagine an MMOFPS with this.

I got into a MP game, in the settings you have to set your network mode from "none" to "client". I didn't see that pointed out anywhere, but I only glanced at the help for the game.

It works perfectly on Mac OS X, either Safari or Firefox. Just go in the settings and choose OpenGL instead of "DirectXcrap" and boom !
I've tried a LAN game between two Macs : just fine and fun !
Read the instructions in the page below the game before complaining
;)

I played this for like 3 hours...

I am a nerd.

(LONG LIVE HALO 2!)

omfg i have to update to 10.1 now!!!!

Not a game, but have an impressive 3D browser : www.tixeo.com

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