Surprise! Bastion Now Available in the Chrome Web Store
Posted by Greg on December 9, 2011
Check this out: If you use Google Chrome to browse the Internet, now you can also use it to play Bastion right in your browser. Our game is now available in the Chrome Web Store. Crazy, but true!
This latest version of Bastion is built to run right in your web browser, using Google’s new Native Client technology. This really is the full Bastion experience, featuring our highly acclaimed 1080p artwork, musical score, reactive narration, and play experience, all built to run fast and smooth just like our Xbox 360 and PC versions. And, much like those versions, you can play through the prologue for free. The full game can be unlocked for $14.99.
We’re very excited to have Bastion now available on Chrome since it makes getting into the game easier than ever before, and opens up the experience to tons of new players… including players using computers other than Windows-based PCs.
The Chrome version of Bastion requires:
- Processor: 1.7 GHz Dual Core or Greater
- Memory: 2 GB
- Hard Disk Space: 1.0 GB
- Video Card: 512 MB graphics card (shader model 2)
(Note: Gamepad controllers are not supported in this initial release.)
We’d like to thank the team at Google for collaborating with us on this project, and Roger Hanna, Ryan Williams, and Griffin Chronis for their additional engineering work.
Also, we owe a special thanks to all you folks who’ve taken the time to request Bastion for your gaming platform of choice. This new version means many of you should now be able to play Bastion for yourself. This is also a good time to reiterate our stance when it comes to bringing Bastion to other platforms: We have no confirmed plans for other versions of Bastion, though we haven’t ruled anything out for the future either. The quality of our game is our primary concern, and that means having to focus on developing for one platform at a time. We aim to be super careful about how we make these choices, to bring you the highest possible quality in any new game we make available.
And that’s not all. We’ll have some more Bastion-related news tomorrow!
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36 Comments
I just ordered the Bastion Bundle and now I get to play Bastion away from my Xbox on my Macbook! THIS IS AWESOME
Nice job guys! I've been playing Bastion with OnLive on my Mac and have been having some fun but answer me this: Does Bastion for Chrome work offline? That might be worth a re-purchase.
Bastion is .Net/XNA, right? How easy was it to get that working with Native Client?
I remember when Windows 95 came out and I was in awe of playing games in Windows without booting out into DOS. Now you're telling me I can play stuff in my browser?
You're doing it right!
That's pretty cool! I'm glad Bastion has done well; it's a really novel and well-made game.
Could you shed some light on exactly what technologies went into the chrome port? Is this more than just HTML5/JS? Or some chrome magic? haha Great game btw!
I REALLY hope the announcement is related to a sequel or perhaps some tasteful DLC for Bastion. Easily one of my top games of 2011.
I don't people really understand how cool this actually is. Running a game like Bastion in a browser is just incredible. Thank you guys for making this possible, and congratulations on your success with the game. I'm hoping to see more of Super Giant Games in the future!
This is unbelievable! Bastion plays great on my i7 MacBook Air. I just need to blank this out of my memory until my final dissertation hand in on Wednesday and then I am all over this. Great work, guys!
Congratulations, this is a quantum leap for showing how the web can become a real platform. As a software engineer, I hope that PNaCl will adopt rapidly and we can use real languages and tons of excellent existing libraries to build high-quality, high-performant, web-distributable software.
OMG! I installed it on my Mac Pro and it was working (except there was no sound) so I restarted and now it's saying that Bastion isn't working and I need an Open GL compatible card. I have an ATI Radeon 5770 which appears to be compatible. But however briefly I got to play, it looked BEAUTIFUL. Oh and the deflated scumbag is soooooooo cuuuuuuute!!!!! While I wish the game was working for me right now, the error message softened the blow significantly ^_^
What is the gameplay itself like without a controller? Do you use the keyboard or the mouse or what?
Cool! A friend had been asking me if the game was available for Mac... and he uses Chrome too! Now I can point him to this version :)
This is amazing...!!! Does this mean it will work on Linux too? Either way, what an awesome achievement! As a a game dev myself- please, please, PLEASE make a post on just how you made this possible, even if just the basics. I'd love to know, and I'm sure so would many others. Supergiant is becoming more and more of a Super-inspiration to other indie devs!
Awesome news! Really a sign of how far we've come! So native client actually works? :D I'd love to hear about the development, what was bastion written in C/++? .net/XNA maybe? It'd be really nice if you could post something on the development. Awesome job!
@ZM On pc you can play with kb+m so I'd expect that. Works wonderfully too, I never felt the need to bust out my 360 pad as the mouse is absolutely perfect to aim ranged weapons (yes I know about auto lock, mouse can be superior depending on situation)
@Interested You can't produce a game like this with HTML5 and JS. It just can't be done. Native Client is a Chrome technology, so this won't run on other browsers. Native client allows traditional programming language code(such as C or C++) to be run safely in Chrome, without the need to maintain another code-base. It's beyond awesome.
The other key thing is that because it's a part of Chrome(as opposed to being an operating system technology) it doesn't matter if you're running it on Chrome in Windows, Mac or even Linux.
Awesome! I... wish I'd known this was coming. Two days ago I finally succumbed to temptation and bought the Steam version - which I can only play at lunchtimes as I don't have a Windows PC. Now, suddenly, a version I could use at home - if I buy it again. Tempting...
Playing from Ubuntu linux here. I've already bought the game on Steam, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoy it. Would still like to see a native linux version so that I can play off-line, but this will definitely tie me over for now. It's great to see NaCL games leading with a something as great as Bastion.
This is marvelous, what does Bastion run on? This seems to me like an impressive technical feat.
I just bought this game during the recent steam sale. Sure would be great to be able to play it natively on my Mac without having to run windows, or purchase the game again. (Note: I'm too cheap to purchase the game again.)
Sorry, I'm not trying to be difficult, but what is the point of this? It's not a web app. It requires this weird Native Client thing on Chrome, which basically (as far as I can tell) means you are running the normal game code but just through your browser (for some reason). The whole point of a web app is that it is built on standards (html5, js, css) that any web browser can execute without an additional install. Maybe I am missing something? This just seems like "let's see if we can get a game to run in a browser for the sake of it."
Just finished the demo and it's awesome! Any chance of a PS3 or Mac release? I don't like buying games that won't work without an internet connection.
Gotta say, this runs great! But I *just* bought this game on Steam yesterday during the sale! :( Been waiting a long time... Any chance you'll consider letting people who bought it on Steam get access to the Web App?
This is soo awesome! Been following development since 1st episode of Building the Bastion on GiantBomb, and now I finally get to play your game (I only own PS3 and Macs). I've even almost got it working with Gamepad Companion (right stick stops moving the cursor as soon as I use another button). Mouse and keyboard works great though! Thanks again!!! Adam
solved. my other computer has Nacl disabled.
If I payed for the game on Steam, do I get Chrome full version?
I own bastion on steam. Do I have to pay another $15 to get it on chrome?
so happy, am playing it in ubuntu linux ! http://www.ubuntuvibes.com/2011/12/how-to-play-popular-action-rpg-bastion.html
Very impressive to get this working in Chrome. This really shows the way things should move in the future. Chrome is the same across platforms, so it makes a unified experience to develop for, atleast that is my understand. I hope at some point SGG will go over some of the work they did to make this port. it works amazingly well on my laptop and if there were more entries like this, i could totally see Chrome as a growing platform. I think the largest benefit is that now it's a MAC game. Little curious how the hardware is on Chrome Books, and if this game can run on those. Because opening doors to games like this for Chrome Books makes those more plausible now as well.
As a mac user, I bought Bastion on launch day for Steam to play under bootcamp. I'd really appreciate the ability to play this game in Chrome. I don't know how feasible it is from a linking of accounts perspective, but since this seems to currently be the only plan to bring Bastion to OSX, I'd really appreciate it. If you have already made a decision on this matter, I'd really like to hear what that decision is. If you all have made the marketing decision to require Steam users to buy this game a second time, would you kindly make an announcement to that effect? Thanks! (I love the game on Windows, I'd just love to be able to play it more conveniently, cause bootcamp isn't convenient)
@Khrome >I think the largest benefit is that now it's a MAC game If that is the benefit, then would it not be better to develop a proper native Mac application? Most people do not use Chrome. Therefore people are having to install an additional browser, plus this Native Code thing, to run a game. Seems strange to me. Plus, you are always going to to get better performance, graphics and stability by creating a native app. Sorry, I am just not quite getting it. It may well be my fault for not understanding the motivation here. It just doesn't seem clear what the thinking is behind this sort of thing. In fact, it almost seems like a retrograde step in web standards and compatibility. Almost like going back to the bad old days of Microsoft and their control over Active X and all their weird proprietary extensions to web technologies in IE. If it runs in a browser it should run in *every* browser. That is the whole idea of the web.
I am also interested in how you ported this to chrome. Could you PLEASE do some special on how the porting process went and what tools you guys used?
thanks for helping us linux users out!