“Naturally, this means only a tiny minority of existing games will be updated, even if it is not much of an issue for developers of future games on contemporary engines and libraries,” he added. He explained updating the code won’t take much work, provided that, “one, you have access to all the servers the game is hosted on two, you still have your source code three, you made the game either using raw JS/HTML or an engine that has been recently updated to respect this new policy (and the updates didn’t break your game in some other way and four, you have time to go through all your projects and update them.”
But very few games do this because previously, there was “little reason to.”įoddy told the Daily Dot the updates required aren’t difficult, but he suspects most developers don’t have the components needed to make them. Most web games already have a ‘click to play’ button (to gain keyboard focus) but Chrome won’t allow those game to play audio unless their click method specifically resumes the AudioContext (and few do, because until now there was little reason to).- Bennett May 7, 2018īennett Foddy, the creator of popular browser-based games QWOP and Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, explains games won’t play audio unless their click-to-play method resumes the JavaScript “AudioContext” application programming interface (API). In many cases, audio won’t even play even when a game requires users to “click to play.” Prior to the update, game audio would either start when a webpage loaded, or more commonly, after the user pressed “play.” With the latest version of Chrome, games created using any HTML5 engine- Pico-8, GameMaker, Unity, or Phaser- don’t play sound.
It now appears the Chrome 66 update has had some unintended consequences that threaten web-based games.
But what most people didn’t consider is how the changes would affect other content. When Google updated Chrome to automatically block autoplay videos last week, it was seen as a victory for internet-goers who long endured annoying advertisements.
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