Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser

http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/

by aw3c2 • 14 years ago

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aw3c24• 14 years ago

and watch John Carmack's commentary on Wolf3D at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE

jiggy20112• 14 years ago

Worth watching, many words of Wisdom in there for aspiring game developers, or developers in general.

He talks about how he specifically designed wolf3d so that you could just "bang enter a couple of times" and be into the game while modern AAA titles can have complex interfaces.

Also how you should be able to hack together the core concepts of a good game with a small team in a few months (as they did with wolf3d).

JackdawX• 14 years ago

Great link, thanks.

alainbryden• 14 years ago

If only I wasn't at work...

huskyr• 14 years ago

As far as i can see, this is all done without the canvas tag or webGL, just lots of divs and CSS. Impressive :)

For those who just want to play directly:

http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html

MatthewPhillips• 14 years ago

Yeah, pretty slow because of that (at least on my computer). Definitely not an html5 showcase, but impressive that they were able to pull it off without canvas.

SaigonKick• 14 years ago

Looks like a lot of Javascript too! http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/load.js

azakai• 14 years ago

Interesting, it looks like they rewrote all the code in JS. I wonder why they didn't compile it.

Just speculation, but compiling might have led to a faster result (the compiled Doom was faster than this).

edit: Nevermind, looks like it renders using divs and not canvas. I guess they focused on compatibility with as many browsers as possible and not on performance.

Eduard• 14 years ago

No z key / y key distinction built-in. This game sucks on German keyboards.

aw3c24• 14 years ago

Well, it is banned in Germany anyways. ;)

You can rebind the keys in the options.

Argorak2• 14 years ago

No, its not banned. Since April 2012. Bethesda is working hard to get all of IDs IP approved again. Doom, Doom 2 and Quake are also not banned anymore.

http://www.areagames.de/artikel/detail/Indizierungen-im-Apri...

(link in german, obviously :) )

cleverjake• 14 years ago

holy crap - pure html/css/js - no webgl. thats insane.

manveru• 14 years ago

Blocked at least in Austria

icode• 14 years ago

And in Germany. Whats a good proxy to see it anyhow?

TazeTSchnitzel• 14 years ago

It might work directly: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html

roschdal• 14 years ago

This has already been done long ago, here: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/

lunixbochs• 14 years ago

That canvas renderer is really buggy.

augusto_hp• 14 years ago

It was done for a contest with a given limit LOC. The idea of the guy was not to create a perfect port, was to create something like wolf3d with little lines of code.

It is buggy on "purpuse" in some kind of way ...

its_so_on• 14 years ago

how far we have come, and yet...how far we have yet to come.

I speak, of course, of DOOM - in pure CSS. The gold standard of...I'm not sure, but it's gotta be something.

michaelmior• 14 years ago

Worked flawlessly and fast for me. More than I can say about most WebGL/Flash games I've tried.

kinleyd2• 14 years ago

Ah, Wolfenstein... takes me back to some good gaming days in my youth. :)

webXL• 14 years ago

I was so psyched when I first played this because Castle Wolfenstein* was the first computer game I was addicted to. Something about sneaking up on Nazis and filling them up with lead. It never gets old!

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein

kinleyd2• 14 years ago

In addition to Wolfenstein:

My first addiction: Space Invaders (1982-84) Next major addiction: Test Drive (1989-90) Thereafter: Hacking in some form or other... little time for games. :)

randomdrake• 14 years ago

Anyone else disappointed to find "MIL" didn't work? Also I'm very surprised in myself that I remember where so many of the secret doors are. Ahhh nostalgia.

_hnwo• 14 years ago

the JS code is in there for god mode and "give all" :)

function debugGiveAll()

function debugGodMode(enable)

phoboslab• 14 years ago

I feel like a second class citizen. I can't play the game, nor watch the video (without proxies and stuff), because - oh my god - there's swastikas in them.

Anyway, mirror of the game: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/

Uploading the video now... [edit]: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/commentary.flv

mkup• 14 years ago

Which key should I press to shoot? Original DOS version used [Ctrl] as far as I remember. It doesn't work in browser.

agazso• 14 years ago

Press 'x' to shoot.

petercooper• 14 years ago

It's funny how muscle memory is. I just instinctively went for Ctrl 20 years on!

richardlblair• 14 years ago

Take that productivity!

jiggy20112• 14 years ago

If you like the old Wolf3d you should check out catacomb abyss which was the predecessor to wolf and had many of the same devs (including Carmack). A very underrated game.

vbtemp• 14 years ago

This is a scam, I distinctly remember from my time playing this in the early nineties, that holding down the I + L + M keys all at the same time would give you full health, full ammo, and both keys.

This doesn't have that!!!!

KonradKlause• 14 years ago

"Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site."

Is .at now on the axis of evil?

philwelch• 14 years ago

It's illegal to have swastikas in a video game in some European countries; Austria might be one of these.

ekianjo• 14 years ago

I always wonder what they try to achieve by hiding swastikas. I mean, come on, you can find swastikas everywhere if you look at greek vases, at Japan maps (temples are symbolized with swastikas in Japan), and in a number of ancestral cultures. It's completely ridiculous, and it does not prevent anyway right-wing extremism in the countries mentioned.

rosstafarian• 14 years ago

The the full ios version of wolf3d is free[1] today too :)

[1]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-platin...

hsshah• 14 years ago

Worked great! There goes my time down the drain! Can we have nonprocrast for all submitted sites as well? ;-)

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