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Making a multiplayer 3rd-person shooter in HTML5

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D.E.M.O.
D.E.M.O. Multiplayer 3rd-person shooter running in the browser

PlayCanvas were lucky enough to show a demo of our collaborative HTML5 game development toolset at Google I/O a few months back. We had a few existing demos of simple games that we had made in order to test the platform.

However, we really wanted to show something a little more high-end, to showcase the possibilities that HTML5 offers for next-generation browser games. With a little under two weeks to go we started work on the demo we'd feature on the show floor. A networked multiplayer 3rd-person shooter we descriptively called 'scifi'. We’ve since renamed it to the slightly less descriptive D.E.M.O.