Latest Humble Bundle Sponsored By Mozilla, Lets You Play Games In Your Browser

It takes a special Humble Bundle to catch my attention nowadays, and the latest one has certainly done that. With the promise of being able to test-drive the games on offer right inside of your browser, it’s a hard treat to ignore – after all, browser games truly worth your time don’t come along too often (*spits on Facebook games*).

If you head on over to the main site, you can give seven different games a try: Super Hexagon, Aaaa! for the Awesome, Osmos, Zen Bound 2, Dustforce DX, Voxatron, and FTL: Advance Edition. And because there always has to be a hidden game for some reason, one more will be revealed soon.

Making all of these games playable through the browser is made possible by asm.js, a programming language heavily promoted by Mozilla. Anyone familiar with JavaScript should be able to jump in and develop for asm.js fairly easily, and those more familiar with C and C++ have code conversion tools available so that they can take part, too.

In quick tests, the games run beautifully from within the browser (Google Chrome was my test platform), and it becomes obvious very quickly that the Web currently holds little back when you want to get your game on. Admittedly, if a native client of a game is available, I’d never play it from within a browser, but just to see that it’s possible is awesome.