The fact that dozens of popular browser games such as King’s Road, Prime World or CSR Racing are built with Unit圓D gives hope that this technology has a promising future ahead. Unit圓D gets regular upgrades, has a broad user community, and tends to instantly improve customer support and partner relationships. For instance, the aforementioned Drakensang was first built with the self-made JAVA-based engine.īut now when you have Unit圓D you can forget about developing auxiliary tools and can actually spend all your time on the core development and functionality improvements. Yet, few managed to build own engines and create their gaming projects with them. It was very difficult to make anything work seamlessly in a browser without freezes and FPS slumps.

In their early days, browser games developers faced the lack of technological solutions to enable most of features any good game should possess to attract users and be able to monetize. That said, 3D effects spice up any browser game and make it stand out of the crowd of similar looking games.įor instance, Drakensang Online boasts over 23 million registered users and around 700,000 new users every month which generally marks a great deal of international success. When it comes to 3D games, your goal is to wow the audience with cool looking characters and backgrounds and, while the player is euphoric about it, make them spread a message about the game and invite friends for a PvP duel. Word of mouth is a top driver of browser games installs. If the game is really cool, any social networker will be happy to share it with others for no reward. But social networks are still based on social connections, and that’s what some indie developers have in mind when choosing to build browser games. Lately, almost all of the social networks have “put the screws” on viral channels in order to entice developers to use a more profitable (for the platform) traffic generation method – ads.

When did you last hear about a game getting 10-15 thousand installs a day without any advertising? I believe, long time ago. Let’s try to figure out why browser-based games are entering a new stage of evolution and how the 3D technology will help them gain new momentum. These ambitious developers are about to start dictating their agenda to the whole gaming industry and keep ignoring some common social marketing rules. And the practice shows that the social networkers are more than ready to accept this new gaming content, and play PvP straight from their accounts without going to the app stores. While experienced game developers are working hard to revive old mechanics, young and ambitious developers are casting their eyes on 3D technology and games with simultaneous gameplay.

“Browser games are dead! Long live the browser games!” – that’s how we can best describe today’s state of once extremely popular browser-based games (aka HTML5 games).

Top 5 browser based games