HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake

https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake

by aw3c2 • 13 years ago

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cocoflunchy• 13 years ago

Playable version here : http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/WebQuake/Client/WebQuake.htm

Although the controls are really weird, right click goes forward, I can't aim with the mouse...

pygy_• 13 years ago

These are IIRC the original controls. You could enable mouselook by using the console, but it is not implemented in this port.

Sprint2• 13 years ago

The port intentionally does not support mouse control because that is full of vendor-prefixes. See the bottom of the page.

0x0• 13 years ago

It's "Aw, snap!"'ing my chrome 24 on osx 10.8 :(

sylvinus• 13 years ago

Same for me.

adam-f• 13 years ago

Working great on a macbook-pro with Windows 8. :-P

kvprashant2• 13 years ago

"and don't kill the server please?" if only ppl were that nice. Quaddicted will be quaked soon!

Sprint2• 13 years ago

Quaddicted.com admin here. Should be fine since it is just static content. You might saturate the 100mbit/s but the server itself should be fine.

shocks• 13 years ago

Challenged accepted!

Just kidding. :)

kvprashant2• 13 years ago

Nice! awesome work Sprint :)

patman81• 13 years ago

Wow, audio is a bit slow for me in Safari but great tech demo. I still love that game!

wowtip• 13 years ago

That worked very well. With mouse support it would be great.

Also, quite scary how well you remember the maps, 15 years later.

BHSPitMonkey• 13 years ago

I've always thought about how well we learn lore and geography inside games we love (for example, I know where everything is within several different lands of Hyrule), and yet it's very hard to get students to really learn actual Earth geography. Perhaps some aspects of this kind of teaching should move into a gaming environment in schools.

jamescun• 13 years ago

If we are able to play games which required a fairly decent PC 15 years ago in a web browser today, imagine where we will be in another 15 years time.

Mahn• 13 years ago

It's a start. Browsers were not getting any faster before because no one was pushing their boundaries, but nowadays it's a different story. I think we can expect browsers to get a helluva lot faster within the next 3-4 years, specially when it comes to canvas processing and rendering.

skatepark2• 13 years ago

> ... imagine where we will be in another 15 years time.

We'll be 15 years behind the PCs of 15 years from now[1].

[1] Unless something changes drastically in the web stack.

mathgladiator2• 13 years ago

But, does that matter?

Do we need all the power a PC provides natively to make great games?

MatthewPhillips2• 13 years ago

15 years ago you needed a fairly decent DOS PC. This works on every major OS out of the gate.

kayoone• 13 years ago

... if you have a fairly decent browser installed

brain502• 13 years ago

very slow in rendering

iapi• 13 years ago

works fine for me which browser are you using ?

brain502• 13 years ago

am using firefox

sin45• 13 years ago

amazing work

dtwhitney• 13 years ago

Anybody getting mouse support working?

SiPlus6• 13 years ago

I added it today only for Chrome.

izuzak• 13 years ago

Best. Thing. Ever.

Running smooth in Chrome Canary.

gren• 13 years ago

awesome work.

Running smoothly on Linux, tested on Firefox and Chrome.

jebblue• 13 years ago

Yup, runs good on Ubuntu, used Chrome. Pretty cool stuff.

tterrace3• 13 years ago

This one is crashing osx for me, but the GWT team did a similar JS port for quake 2 back in 2010, playable here: http://crystalin.dyndns.org:8080/GwtQuake.html .

anon1385• 13 years ago

Crashing your browser (which browser?) or actually crashing the entire OS. Both are worrying from a security perspective, but the latter is very worrying.

tterrace3• 13 years ago

Oops, I meant to say crashing on osx, the browser is chrome 24

tterrace3• 13 years ago

To update, it looks like both the gwt quake to and the OP's quake crash safari and chrome on osx, but work great in firefox. The quake 1 demo actually runs noticeably quicker than the gwt one for me. This is a great showcase for what's possible for js games.

zanny• 13 years ago

So you can write on the checklist of things html5.5 or 6 or whatever needs:

* Local config storage (doable in cookies or localstorage)

* Local save storage (probably too big to fit in 5MB of localstorage)

* Mouselook (mouse buttons work fine). I think you can already do this though, I know you can at least track cursor position and you can implement mouselook off that.

* Mousewheel in firefox, at least, wasn't rebindable.

* I see problems in fullscreen browser games that take every single browser button and override it, so you would probably want a "you can't rebind this key" key. If there isn't already one.

SiPlus6• 13 years ago

Configs, saves and demos are already stored in localStorage.

snprbob86• 13 years ago

MouseloOk != MouseloCk

Tracking view position from mouse coordinates has always been possible, but handling mouse focus and coordinate wrapping is necessary for games with mouse look. The really tricky bit is that there are security implications in much the same way as full screen mode.

See here for details on Pointer Lock: http://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/mouse-lo...

zerooneinfinity• 13 years ago

Really impressive. What are peoples thoughts on games moving more and more to browsers?

mathgladiator2• 13 years ago

I think it's an interesting question of time. Quake I came out june 1996; so, html5 is almost* capable of doing a 16 year old game. This... is interesting from a data point perspective.

There is an open question as to how html5 now compares to native some years ago since that's how (for gaming) it should be judged. I believe we will reach a limit point and in the long term, maybe the browser-related inefficiencies will just be marginal to the end user experience.

* mouse look is really what is missing.

MatthewPhillips2• 13 years ago

The programmer behind this is 17 years old. Hand ported as well, not emscripten.

camus• 13 years ago

great , did not work on my machine though , but great project.

SiPlus6• 13 years ago

15 *

16 on March 15

stared• 13 years ago

On Mac OS X on Chrome it does not work, on Firefox it works but blinks...

SiPlus6• 13 years ago

In Chrome on Mac and Linux, sound crashes the tab often. Play with ?-nosound or on Windows. The loading image is also not displayed in Chrome (unlike Firefox).

HTML5/WebGL source port of Quake

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