BananaBread: 3D first person shooter game compiled to JS+WebGL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/demos/detail/bananabread

by robin_reala • 14 years ago

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magikbum• 14 years ago

Tried playing but didn't load. The demo video though looks amazing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=m...

mistercow• 14 years ago

Yeah not working on Chrome on Linux for me. Gets to "preparing" and then stops doing anything.

tluyben2• 14 years ago

I have the same issue on Chrome (21.0.1180.82)/Mac OS X (10.7.2). Other WebGL stuff works.

azakai7• 14 years ago

Strange, works for me on Firefox and Chrome. Can you look in the error console? Debug output goes there, could help narrow down the problem.

Edit: The "troubleshooting" section on the page might help.

Edit2: If that doesn't help, try clearing the cache and reloading, I've seen that fix things on Chrome, not sure why.

Edit3: And specifically for Chrome, make sure pointer lock is enabled, it's disabled by default.

Edit4: I think I can reproduce this, once every few runs it stalls like that, because Chrome fails to decode audio sometimes. Reloading fixes it for me.

Debug build is up at http://dl.dropbox.com/u/80664946/index.html which tells you what is causing startup to fail in the error console.

circa• 14 years ago

looks awesome.. i'll try it when i get home.

EastCoastLA• 14 years ago

Should have evolved some element for the http://www.ludumdare.com/ event.

Maybe next time ;)

idm• 14 years ago

It took a few tries on OSX/Chrome (no relevant errors from the console to report) but it seemed to be more reliable when running inside a "fresh" tab as opposed to one I had already reloaded several times.

Having played it, I must report back to say: this is stunning. It's wicked fast. Wow. Just wow.

azakai7• 14 years ago

The load problem on Chrome seems to be audio decoding related. Reloading usually fixes it. Still investigating and looking for a better workaround.

stcredzero2• 14 years ago

"Banana Bread" was also the name of a very early and very obscure erotic adventure game on the Apple II.

stilist• 14 years ago

I’m curious. More details?

stcredzero2• 14 years ago

Sorry, it's been too long ago, and too long before Google. I only remember the mention of the name.

crowhack• 14 years ago

tried it in chrome windows 7, got error pointer lock/mouse is missing, any ideas?

azakai7• 14 years ago

See the troubleshooting section on the page - pointer lock is disabled in chrome by default, you need to enable it to run the demo (you can do so in chrome://flags).

pmr_• 14 years ago

I'm wondering: Was the technique of compiling from C++ to JS primarily for code reuse? I always perceived the ability to code in something else besides C++ as one of the main advantages of the whole "Games on the Web" thing.

azakai7• 14 years ago

Code reuse was a major reason, yeah. It was much, much easier to compile a full open source game engine (that was worked on for many years!), instead of writing a new one from scratch.

Another benefit is C++ compiled to JS tends to be faster than handwritten JS, because it avoid things like GC and property accesses and focuses on things JS engines can easily do fast, like typed array accesses.

FrojoS• 14 years ago

Very impressive!

Was playable in low-ress mode, though sometimes laggy, on my 2010 MacBook Air with Chrome.

wazoox• 14 years ago

Alas, unplayable with a non-QWERTY keyboard.

azakai7• 14 years ago

You can enter the game's menus (`) and change the keybindings.

(However, we haven't implemented saving the config file for next run yet, so it will just be for that run.)

BananaBread: 3D first person shooter game compiled to JS+WebGL

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