Ubisoft and Microsoft have released a browser version of Assassin's Creed Pirates

Microsoft and Ubisoft have released a version of the mobile game Assassin's Creed Pirates that runs in most modern browsers without the need for installation. This is reported by The Next Web .

The web version of Assassin's Creed Pirates is designed to showcase Microsoft technology, so it was developed with an emphasis on the Internet Explorer browser, but also runs on competitors' solutions, including Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. The game also works on most mobile devices, but does not support Apple's Safari.

The browser-based Assassin's Creed Pirates is almost indistinguishable from its version for iOS and Android, but it has only one timed swim mode: the user must pass all checkpoints, avoiding mines if possible.

The project is a technical demonstration of a full-fledged 3D game that runs in a browser and does not require installation. It is built on Babylon.JS, an open source engine based on WebGL, JavaScript and TypeScript technologies.

Microsoft programmers created Babylon.JS so that web developers could quickly add hit mechanisms, physics, lighting, camera controls, textures, effects and new levels to their games with a minimum of code.

Assassin's Creed Pirates is a mobile spin-off of Assassin's Creed IV: The Black Flag, which was released in November 2013. This was the first project in the series dedicated to a pirate theme, although the opportunity to sail on a ship appeared in Assassin's Creed III, released a year earlier.

In the fall, Ubisoft plans to release two full-fledged new parts of the franchise for the first time. Assassin's Creed: Comet is based on the mechanics of Assassin's Creed IV and is being created for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, while the completely updated Assassin's Creed: Unity will be released only on PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.

Thus, the French publisher allowed itself to create, in its words, “a true next-generation project”, getting rid of the bottlenecks associated with the simultaneous development of one game for old and new consoles. At the time of writing, most developers are still not ready to give up support for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 due to the relatively small number of PlayStation 4 and Xbox One sold.

In April, Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed games have sold a total of 73 million copies since 2007.

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