Quake in your browser

http://webquake.quaddicted.com/Client/WebQuake.htm

by highCs • 11 years ago

169 66 11 years ago

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empressplay2• 11 years ago

Awesome! But I was really hoping it was going to be multiplayer. It would be much cooler if you could just hop straight in to shooting at some other people...

azakai• 11 years ago

I believe http://www.quakejs.com/ has multiplayer.

ljk• 11 years ago

too bad no one's on the servers :/

undershirt• 11 years ago

amazing, thanks!

xigency• 11 years ago

It actually does support multiplayer, using websockets. You have to enter the IP address. Instructions are on the WebQuake github page.

serkanyersen• 11 years ago

For some reason it triggered vulnerability blocked warning on my device. Looks like one of the WAV files tried to execute code.

Screenshot: http://d.pr/i/w2A1/2BrF07Eo

Kenji• 11 years ago

Woah, what does that mean now? I played through the first level, do I have to worry about an arbitrary code execution exploit having compromised my computer now?

to3m• 11 years ago

The last chunk in the WAV file mentioned has a length of 0xFFFFFFFF, which I don't believe is valid. It's probably just referring to that.

voltagex_• 11 years ago

That's a blast from the past. http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-3895

silveira• 11 years ago

Wow! It worked super well on Firefox 38.0.5/OS X 10.7.5.

0x0• 11 years ago

It actually runs on the iPhone's MobileSafari! (although with quite a bit of stutter and the occasional browser crash)

seanp2k2• 11 years ago

My original Droid ran Quake 3 with no problems at native res at a super solid frame rate. Browser performance has come far, but it's still no match for native from what I've seen.

onion2k2• 11 years ago

True but web performance is advancing faster than native performance. It's catching up. Give it enough time and the difference won't be big enough to justify the additional cost of developing for multiple platforms when you can get 90% of the performance with a cross-platform code base. Whether that code base is HTML5+WebGL or something more like Unity with WebAssembly is another matter, but I believe, in 5 years or so, writing native code will be not be the norm for mobile apps.

anonbanker3• 11 years ago

just tested on an HTC Desire 601. Ran faster in Fennec (firefox) than on an Athlon X2 with a Radeon HD 4200 running linux (open drivers) and Firefox. Wasn't expecting that at all.

zobzu• 11 years ago

worked smoothly on my linux laptop/firefox :) I wonder if quake 3 would work...

pgrote• 11 years ago

wow!

Works great on an Acer C720 chromebook. Fantastic!

anti-shill• 11 years ago

hardly worked at all on my PC with 3 gig of RAM.

chucky_z• 11 years ago

Oh, this thing is ancient!

Still cool.

https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake

There is a node.js multiplayer server included in the repo that works half-decent. :)

Shad0w59• 11 years ago

+mlook doesn't work... any idea why?

moonshinefe• 11 years ago

It didn't work at first for me when I tried it in the very start of the game, but once I went through a portal to enter the 'select your episode' rooms, it started to work.

ninjaroar• 11 years ago

Quake in the browser via javascript was done 5 years ago using GWT. I recall seeing that port at Google I/O years ago.

https://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/

slacka2• 11 years ago

You linked to quake2-gwt-port, which is a Quake 2 port. But this is a Quake 1 JavaScript port called SiPlus' WebQuake.

https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake

I wonder how a JavaScript port done manually like this would compare to an emscripten port in terms of performance? It was a little choppy on my old laptop that can run Quake 3 decently.

anc84• 11 years ago

I am pretty sure that this one was written from scratch, not "compiled to JavaScript".

jwinterm• 11 years ago

IE9 here. I has no quakes in my browser :(

morganvachon• 11 years ago

Works great in Firefox, but it seems that mouse grabbing isn't automatic. Still, very nicely done.

inDigiNeous2• 11 years ago

Why are you running IE9 ?

Loque• 11 years ago

I second this question, also, why would you expect it to work? I'd far rather they (or anyone) spent their time on clients (browsers) that support features than address issues which could be resolved by someone using a modern browser.

thgil• 11 years ago

Ctrl + W closes the tab while playing. Happened to me a lot :/

rectangletangle• 11 years ago

Cool as hell, kinda surprised it ran as smooth as it did.

mhomde3• 11 years ago

~MAP DM4

shoots a couple of shotgun blasts

jumps into the lava

dies

yup, good 'ol quake

prawn• 11 years ago

What a map that was! Used to love getting quad damage on that one and running amok.

mhomde3• 11 years ago

Still one of the best deathmatch maps ever made! :)

klaussilveira• 11 years ago

ioquake 3 via emscripten: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/demos/detail/ioquake3js

I need some help getting MP to work with WebRTC. If you're interested: https://github.com/klaussilveira/ioquake3.js

slacka2• 11 years ago

How does your port differ from QuakeJS? : http://www.quakejs.com/

The source code is at: https://github.com/inolen/quakejs

It has working networking through WebSockets. Might want to check that out.

cliftonk• 11 years ago

I'm not familiar with either implementation, but webrtc (I believe) allows for UDP networking, which is better for FPS games.

spdustin• 11 years ago

If I used my old PC with the 3DFX card, could I see through the walls to snipe other players?

Ahh, the good ol' days.

balls1872• 11 years ago

Voodoo or Voodoo2?

AsakiIssa• 11 years ago

Orchid Righteous 3D, the original voodoo add-on card! Remember playing Fatal Racing / Carmageddon with it too!

Rifu• 11 years ago

I'd just like to take a moment to appreciate the domain name.

Xylemon• 11 years ago

Quaddicted is a great site ran by a great Quake archivist/enthusiast (Spirit). He's helped keep back ups of Quake mods and maps and even written a java application to download and install them easily onto your Quake installation from his site. Just don't appreciate the domain name, appreciate the guy too!

gmriggs• 11 years ago

Awesome

i can hear the zenimax lawyers stampeding now though...

dsl• 11 years ago

This is loading the WAD files from the demo version of Quake, which is fine per the Quake licence.

anonbanker3• 11 years ago

loading screen says "registered version". The shareware/demo did not.

hitlin37• 11 years ago

Quake was the first game i finished till the end.

alttab• 11 years ago

I liked QuakeLive when that was still running. That shit was the bomb.

nchelluri• 11 years ago

It was really cool, but I'll point out that QuakeLive was using plugins/ActiveX and this thing is not.

fletchowns• 11 years ago

QuakeLive isn't running anymore? Seems to still exist...

arianvanp• 11 years ago

Its still running though a bit dead since StarCraft. They I was very active but they recently dropped Linux support so i cant play anymore.

They apparently did a rerelease on steam where they nerfed the game mechanics. For example strafe jumping is automatic now, causing a lot of rage at old school players.

Would love to see it back on SteamOS and Linux in the future. Such a gold game.

Nimitz14• 11 years ago

For example strafe jumping is automatic now, causing a lot of rage at old school players.

No it isn't, you can hold the space bar to jump, that literally doesn't change anything at all.

It's amazing how many retarded rumors sprung out of that release.

ShiftLEr• 11 years ago

Works on Nexus 7 Android 4.4

j0e1• 11 years ago

The game sounds still give me goosebumps.

inDigiNeous2• 11 years ago

Yeah I remember this being one of the first games truly to put the sounds deep into my brain, over grinding multiplayer over countless hours.. just learning from the sounds where the enemies were, who took the red armor and where, when the quad appeared ..

Those jump sounds going over the moving platforms in DM2, somebody rocket jumping in DM4 to the top, DM6 rocket camping and somebody coming behind the corner with the grenade launcher ..

Excellent sound design, Trent Reznor and the ID team did a really good job in spatial location via sound. I dont even know many modern games that have reached the same level, modern multiplayer games don't somehow use sound as well as quake always did to tell you what is happening in the environment.

Although not realistic in any way, but it made sense for the game.

ralphael• 11 years ago

Love this blast from the past.

I just spent 20 minutes watching the demo run through :-)

shocks• 11 years ago

TIL it's really hard to play Quake on a Kinesis...!

Great stuff here. Thanks for sharing.

deepakjc• 11 years ago

I'm on Chrome (on a macbook) and the mouse isn't working... Click works to shoot, but I can't look around using the mouse. Any ideas?

(I'm playing with just the keyboard so far... but I can see the end coming soon.)

yulaow• 11 years ago

Same here, chrome on LinuxMint

alkonaut• 11 years ago

Same here, latest chrome Windows 8

lpedrosa• 11 years ago

Try turning on the mouselook. I think the key for that is '\' or something. Check the controls

anonbanker3• 11 years ago

tilda (~) brings up the menu.

should be "+mlook".

hobs• 11 years ago

Same problem on Chrome on windows, but FF works great.

mrbig4545• 11 years ago

technology is so advanced that we can now run 19 year games in our web browsers and be impressed by it

mhomde3• 11 years ago

Next year is the 20-year anniversary of quake btw! God I'm old

textin• 11 years ago

Here is our experiment in online multiplayer shooter in your browser

http://demo.krie.gg/

Quake in your browser

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