May 8th, 2012

A browser-based MMORPG for the 3DS

94 Comments

A user from 3DSPlaza.com has begun work on Project Triniate, a browser-based MMORPG for the 3DS. The lack of Java or Flash on the 3DS does make this a considerable technical challenge, but there is a video of it working after the break, and you can click here to check out the thread dedicated to the project. The developer makes it clear that “it might not even be released to the public at all”, but it’s still an interesting concept.

[Thanks to @mmportal_feed for sending this in.]

  • Captain Falcon
    • George

      most people’s reactions in a nutshell…

    • cm93

      (up arrow) this

    • AceOfBlades247

      Lol. This GIF worked on my 3DS. :D

    • http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrpigmen1002 MrPigmen1002

      Cool. It works on ppls 3DSs.

  • sammaster9

    I remember something extremely similar to this, but with the dsi browser. There were many tests, but it never came to a final product.

    • Twiilight_Prince[IGN]

      The Mystical Journey

  • MM-Royalninja

    I hope it dose get released to the public !!! It looks like a awsome thing !!!

    • I’M A BEAST

      yeah but faster

  • Anon

    And here I was proud of myself for managing to port Tetris for the browser…

  • MM-Royalninja

    How do you make this ???

  • iPoopPoopPoopOnTheFloor!

    Interesting idea but not such a great result.. for any handheld browser mmorpg, the 3DS would be my last choice even if I like the 3DS.

    I never use the 3DS’ browser unless I have no other option. i’m kinda surprised they even considered it..

    • MM-Royalninja

      HAHAHA !!!LMBOL!!! I love your profile name !!!HAHA !!!! Peace out !!!

    • Supersmash

      DUDE!!!!^ There is kids in this forum!!! Dont post this kind of sites!!

    • salance

      yea i was sort of at school when i clicked it soo you know not a good idea to post that on a family friendly gaming site

    • Revolution5268

      @kaizar thats a new low you did there

    • Jacob

      Derp, what the heck, Kaisar?

      This list of comments should seriously be deleted, now!

    • Ness

      Kaizar’s a pervert confirmed.

    • Matt

      “Ness”, every single living organism on earth is a pervert. We were all built for sex, and only humans deny that.

    • MarioMaster 7

      god damn kaizar why the phuck would people (including me) want that stuff on there 3ds.
      And read the comments before clicking the link

    • MM-Royalninja

      LIKE MARIOMASTER7 SAID !!!!PLAEASE PLEASE PLEASE !!!! READ THE COMMENTS BEFORE CLICKING ON THE LINKS !!!!

    • George

      @SuperSmash You mean like MM-Royalninja?

  • The Un-informed gamer

    Wow that is pretty interesting….
    The only thing that bugs me is how slow you walk/run, but that will probably get improved over time.

  • aguy

    cool! i hope this eventually gets released to the public!

  • The Toader

    I toadally read the title as, “Bowser Based MMORPG for the 3DS.”

    • SuperSherbet

      So did I

    • Classic Hyper Sonic The Hedgehog A.K.A Rc/AGES

      Me too LOL

    • Revolution5268

      lol i not alone

    • Revolution5268

      LOL im not alone

    • Ness

      “‘Bout damn time someone makes a Bowser MMORPG. Oh wait…”

  • http://guardianhero.wordpress.com Guardian Hero

    That’s pretty amazing. It may be that if third parties don’t want to support the 3DS, then 3DS users will just make their own games instead! I have no idea why they’re dead-set on making MMOs though. It’s difficult to gather an audience for those since most of them are already playing WoW or something.

    • AceOfBlades247

      Only if this happened to Megaman Legends 3: Prototype.

  • Bewoulf2000

    Looks cool enough, hope it comes out soon

  • George

    this is sick! ˙▼˙

  • the psvita is better

    seems interesting enough

  • zeldafanboy23ify

    Reminds me of Graal If (anyone’s ever heard of it).

    • Matt

      I made levels in it all the time. I even managed to turn it into a sidescroller castlevania rip-off.

  • Han Solo

    Obviously it needs a ton of work, but it’s pretty impressive. Especially the chat feature.

  • Ness

    I’m a regular 3DSPlaza user, my username is TetrisDude335. I’m a newsposter. Can’t believe this got posted here. I also tested this in it’s early stages, too.

  • http://hybrilynx.net/ Hybrilynx

    thats pretty epic slow. i know how hard it can be too. at least, all i have is no help or reference too look at at all, and neither do i know anyone who knows how to make games, at least with javascripts. on top of that, what im working on is playable on a computer browser and a 3ds browser at the same time. its too bad mine is alittle slow and feels like its lagging. but at least it works, and im learning alot from it. i wonder what this will be like later though.

  • Ty

    Cool. An MMO that finally let’s me play as a tortoise! They need to work on the sprites, but the movement/speed is very accurate!

  • Stargazer

    But isn’t heroes of ruin an mmorpg? Why make it browser based?

    • Ty

      No. An MMO has many players playing together all at once- not a group of four players. Plus, most MMOs are online only. It’s an online multiplayer RPG- like Phantasy Star Online.

  • http://Google.com Man

    I, along with Ness/TetrisDude335, am also an original user on 3DSPlaza.com that tested Triniate in its early stages. It’s amazing to see the 3DSPlaza is becoming suck a phenomenon, making me feel like a proud user.

    • http://Google.com Man

      I meant “such.” My mistake.

    • japzone

      3DSPlaza user as well and I Donated for early access. Have to say that I’m impressed at how far Rob has come. If only he could work out some of the lag issues that appear when more people are on the screen.

  • AceOfBlades247

    OMFG OMFG YES YES!!!!! THIS IS FRIKEN AMAZING!! HOW IS IT EVEN POSIBLE?!?!

    • AceOfBlades247

      I over reacted didn’t I?

  • http://NintendoWorlds.com TurboPikachu

    Of course it needs alot of work. But it sure is more impressive than anything I’ve ever seen on the Wii or DSi internet browsers.

  • Tails the Foxhounhd

    I don’t think I’d ever actually play it myself (I’m kind of against games that “don’t end”), but this is pretty cool and ambitious. More developers need to remember, or learn, how to work within limitations like this instead of just throwing RAM at their problems.

  • soulanger

    I doubt this is doable. I have a similar project. A cross platform browser-based MMO. I first wanted to support the 3DS, first I thought I can do it but when things got complex i saw that it really cant work. The 3DS browser cant go over 10fps similar to the featured video. The screenshots in this link ( http://imgur.com/a/jLI62 ) is what it looks like until I gave up 3DS support. It also has a picture of multiple platforms like 3DS PC and Android.

    tl;dr

    Despite the featured POC video, a fully playable 3DS game is not really possible. I have a similar project.

    • soulanger

      3DS browser game*

      • http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrpigmen1002 MrPigmen1002

        Why say * at the end

      • George

        Usually, people use * for when they make typos.

      • http://3DSPlaza Godhydra

        This will be released to the public as soon as it’s finished. I’m a moderator at 3DSPlaza. Nice to meet you guys. :)

      • George

        nice to meet u too

      • Matthew

        Well the 3ds plaza that is.

  • Egghollo

    Why did they make the browser so sucky? I mean, isn’t the 3DS capable to do better?

    • Revolution5268

      if they plan to do video like youtube on 3ds, then idk

    • Mr.red

      Why are you so dumb ??? You should shut up before some one goes after you!!!

    • books

      No i dont think it can get better and wtf would wanna watch youtube on a smallass screen i would like it on the vita but not this

  • http://3dsplaza.com Rob

    As creator of 3DSPlaza and Triniate I am honored to have an article about this.

    For those of you who are interested: Triniate has it’s own website: http://triniate.com

    You can get access to the demo’s by donating one dollar to the project on the website (you need to login with a 3DSPlaza account on there to do so)

    Thank you for all the support!

    • japzone

      As one of the Donator’s I can say that it was a Dollar well spent. The game is surely in Alpha but it’s still a neat expirience on the 3DS and has great potential.

      3DS users can view this animated GIF of the gameplay here:
      http://goo.gl/HigCc

    • http://dsibrowserstuff.webs.com NINTENDO64

      I wish I could donate…

  • Spook

    I really hope this is free. Because everything I’ve seen lately from nintendo must be payed.

    • Ness

      It’s a 3DS browser game. This isn’t Nintendo’s game. But, Rob said that you needed to donate a dollar to it’s making to have access to it as of now, the only exceptions are the people who tested it in it’s early stages.

  • DavidW

    YES YES YES… YES. I’ve been wanting something like this for a LONG time.

  • emojo1990

    if you want a finished 3ds mmorpg, just use queville.com

  • http://youtube.com/The8Guys Dylan

    THE GAME WAS DESIGNED BY THE CREATORS OF ANIMAL CROSSING :D

    • japzone

      Don’t lie. This was created by the Founder of 3DSPlaza.

    • http://youtube.com/the8guys Dylan

      i worded that way off i meant they use the iten design of AC

  • anonymous

    looks interesting

  • 1-up Dude

    So awsum! I hope they work out all the bugs and get this thing working! I want this to be public! :3

    EPICSAWCE!

  • japzone

    That video is actually an old one. The UI has been improved abit as well as the Performance. The main limitations right now is the power of the 3DS Browser’s engine. Playing the game in a PC Web Browser shows that most of the Lag is because of the 3DS.

  • http://www.nubbinsandco.com Luke

    I think it’s technologically impressive, but would I actually want to play this? Nope. Does it look fun? Nope. It would need to run a lot faster, have more graphical detail, and have a lot more things to do.

  • http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrpigmen1002 MrPigmen1002

    Awesome. I hav hi hopes 4 this

  • Chris

    Can browser-based games access the 3DS’s GPU? I have doubts, but if it were possible to make a browser game use the GPU for enhanced graphical details and such, that would be great.

  • RequiredName

    “It might not even be released to the public at all.” Delete this story, please.

    • Ness

      Hell no! 3DSPlaza just struck gold!

  • Matthew

    I’ve been on this site long before this post. He’s also working on Homebrew.

  • http://dsibrowserstuff.webs.com NINTENDO64

    I am proud to say that I have been on 3DS Plaza for a long time and that I am friends with the creator! Good job 3DS Plaza and mostly Robdeprop!

  • Mr.red

    This game looks good ….But it could be better If they would put a little better grafics ! Like the facebook games like sosial empires and farm ville ( I havent played to much farm ville but iv seen friends play it )

  • http://yahoo.com alex

    is it out yet

  • http://3DSPlaza Ron1212

    I go on 3DS Plaza!!! This game will rock!

    • http://3DSPlaza.com Ron1212

      I go on 3DS Plaza!!! Join the site while you can!!!

  • Yellowpikmin476

    This may point to Flash being implemented into the 3DS’s internet browser…

  • http://youtube.com/the8guys Dylan

    cant wait for this screw not releasing it we ll have to make another stand like Mega Man lets get this game into full production!

    • http://3DSPlaza.com DarkJesterZ

      Funny thing is, Rob is a kid! XD

  • BlueBlur

    Being a 3dsplaza user, I can expect great thing from this game. Join the site btw if you want to play it when its finished.

  • jman

    Lack of java and flash on the 3ds makes this a challenge? Seriously? Have you ever heard of html5 or jquery

    • http://3dsplaza.com Rob

      Not only that, there are more limits:

      - The 3DS Browser is really weak in comparison to other browsers. It’s really tough fighting the lag.
      - The 3DS Browser’s canvas doesn’t work very well and is even slower, so using it is not an option
      - The 3DS Browser’s HTML 5 is very limited. No video/ audio tags, no animation options, no window.requestAnimationFrame and more.

  • XxCecexX

    I’m a well-known user on 3DSPlaza :D. I’m XxCecexX.