Firefox Makes a Push for Gaming Excellence

This is an interesting development:

We’re committed to building the infrastructure needed to keep the Web the most robust platform on the planet. Although its roots have been around for some time, Mozilla’s focus on games is a relatively new initative. We are focused on making Firefox the best game development platform possible.

Check out BananaBread.

The latest Firefox release includes all of the JavaScript and WebGL updates needed to produce this demo.

BananaBread was developed by Mozilla to show our progress in action. We ported a complete C++ game engine to JavaScript using Emscripten. The original opensource engine is called Cube 2. It was designed to support first person shooters. Few believed porting a full, highly responsive game to JavaScript was an achievable goal. (We had our own doubts.) To our amazement, we found that we were able to build a demo that surpassed our highest expectations.