About Browser Games

Browser games are electronic games that are played online via the Internet. They are distinct from normal video and computer games in that they do not require that the client would install any software. The latter case are typically (massive) multiplayer games, whereas the client-side games are typically single-player games. A game played in a browser is often called a browser-based game.
 

Plug-in based browser games require a form of web browser plug-in to function. Some of these may include Java, Shockwave and Flash, with some of these plug-ins available through default installations of most modern internet browsers. These games allow users to more easily hack the code on their end, denying fair multiplayer gameplay, therefore a large majority of plug-in based games today are still single player.
 

More recent browser-based games use web technologies like AJAX to make more complicated multiplayer interactions possible.
 

A growing number of games are being created using server-side scripting, in a language such as PHP, ASP, Ruby, Perl, Python and Java. Games such as these store all code server side and only send the user's browser HTML markup language for interpretation. Some include JavaScript or AJAX to allow the user to immediate see responses to their online actions and make the games more visually appealing and friendly. Having all game code server side allows for a more secure setting as the player does not have direct access to it, making it harder to alter the code and cheat.
 

Some Browser Games