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Issues that I might anticipate there would be interfacing with the browser’s audio apis. Freeciv uses sdl audio, which works decently with browser apis, but “clipping” sounds can b…

The main freeciv21 developers you can see on the repo are mir3x and lmoureaux. The original freeciv project still has some activity, but we wanted to iterate faster, focus more on …

There are only about 4-6 players left who still do regular multiplayer, that is playing a whole game in a 2-3 hour session. And they tend to be a traditional sort who still use an …

Hetzner, with Cloudflare to do the CDN for such large game assets.

It should be possible, but it would take more invasive netcode changes to be able to handle webRTC. Emscripten does not do similar translation of socket calls to webRTC.

I've been playing Freeciv for years, but was disappointed that the pool of players was dwindling. A few of the members of the community stepped up to work on revitalizing the proje…

Admittedly we have not tested on firefox as much, but I suspect that is happening is that we have a race condition in waiting for the 30+MB package of wasm and data files to load.

Qt and emscripten took care of the bulk of it. Emscripten turns socket calls into websocket somewhat "transparently". The error handling is slightly different, but it only took min…

We have forked it and are allowing more C++, but it is still mostly C style. https://github.com/longturn/freeciv21