The Browser Game Period, a logical evolution following the Web Site Era, occurred between 2010 and 2011 during the VaultWiki Era.
After the transition of Cracked Egg Studios to internet-based distribution, Ted Phillips had been considering ways to release video games from the archives on the web site. Flash games had grown in popularity over the previous decade, culminating in large numbers of in-browser games on the social media site Facebook. Ted thought Flash was the perfect way to distribute games from the RPG Maker Era, embedded and playing directly on the web site, once he obtained or programmed an automated conversion process. For brand new games, such as the planned massively-multiplayer online version of the board game Observatory, Ted thought they could be written entirely in front-end languages like Javascript and HTML, with PHP backends.
There is some evidence that Cracked Egg Studios was considering browser games as early as March 17, 2007, but no known evidence that actual planning or development was done until the 2010 time period.
In the end, no conversion process from RPG Maker to Flash was ever completed, and no Javascript games ever made it to production, as nearly all of Ted's development time was dedicated to VaultWiki until 2021.
After the transition of Cracked Egg Studios to internet-based distribution, Ted Phillips had been considering ways to release video games from the archives on the web site. Flash games had grown in popularity over the previous decade, culminating in large numbers of in-browser games on the social media site Facebook. Ted thought Flash was the perfect way to distribute games from the RPG Maker Era, embedded and playing directly on the web site, once he obtained or programmed an automated conversion process. For brand new games, such as the planned massively-multiplayer online version of the board game Observatory, Ted thought they could be written entirely in front-end languages like Javascript and HTML, with PHP backends.
There is some evidence that Cracked Egg Studios was considering browser games as early as March 17, 2007, but no known evidence that actual planning or development was done until the 2010 time period.
In the end, no conversion process from RPG Maker to Flash was ever completed, and no Javascript games ever made it to production, as nearly all of Ted's development time was dedicated to VaultWiki until 2021.