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Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by ajxs » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:18 AM UTC

debaserab2 wrote: post #76

frompdx wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This prompted me to take a look at quakelive again. It's been years since I last played but I was hooked for a while. This might get me back into it.

If you're interested on a more modern game with similar gameplay, Diabotical is in open beta soon https://www.diabotical.com/ I was in the closed beta - it really satisfies the quake style deathmatching itch I've had lately.

I liked Reflex Arena the most out of the post-Quake Live arena FPS'. It's a huge pity that it didn't really take off. I feel like they made a terrible mistake hedging their bets with catering to the CPM community. From what I saw it alienated the VQL players by using CPM mechanics, and the CPM players shunned it in the end because it wasn't an exact clone of CPM. This was a poor decision, in my opinion. One that ended up dooming what could have been an amazing game.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by codethief » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:21 AM UTC

gigatexal wrote: post #32

There goes my week -- this runs wicked smoothly in my browser.

Even on my Thinkpad W510 from 2010(!) it runs very smoothly – incredible. If only it were as good security-wise… (no TLS?!)

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by theunamedguy » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:22 AM UTC

This reminds me of my port of Quake 1 to Rockbox (for MP3 players): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22162834

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by jakearmitage » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:31 AM UTC

everdrive wrote: post #5

Disappointed to find out this is not Quake 1

Here you go: http://fte.triptohell.info/demo

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:33 AM UTC

jcelerier wrote: post #19

lagerstedt wrote: post #6

The fact that this can now be run in a browser on a laptop rather than a high end gaming rig is indeed amazing.

is it ? quake 3 is a 1999 game. It's closer in time to MS-DOS 6.22 (1993) than to Windows 10 (2015)... and it's not even reaching 60fps on my 1080...

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Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by atum47 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:53 AM UTC

Yep, that's really awesome. Quick question: If one implemented the whole thing again, using three.js or even raw webgl, would it be more performant that the compiled javascript version?

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by Pxtl » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 1:55 AM UTC

alouis44 wrote: post #65

benjojo12 wrote: post #21

EDIT: This appears to have died, now that the content servers for quakejs have died. My servers are no longer starting anymore :(. For those reading on later, there was peak of 10 on both servers just before it went down ioq3 1.36_GIT_4f7d7bf-2014-02-01 emscripten- Feb 23 2014 ----- FS_Startup ----- Error: Failed to download and parse manifest, Couldn't load http://content.quakejs.com/assets/manifest.json. Status: 50…

https://openarena.live/ Here's a link to the open source version of Quake called Open Arena, compiled to WASM and using WebRTC for matchmaking.

The models in OA seem unintentionally hilarious, alternating between stiff and low poly for some, and meticulously sculpted breasts for the others.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by jaytaylor » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:00 AM UTC

Wow this really runs like crap on Android!

Is there no way to control it without a mouse? After dropping in, I could hear sounds in the level room, with occasional odd crackle distortion.

Pretty cool.

https://i.imgur.com/1LvPTWh.jpg

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by greggman3 » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 2:07 AM UTC

Wasn't quake ported to JS via the Java version like 10 years ago?

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

Still, it's cool to see it ported via other means.

Re: QuakeJS – A Quake Port to JavaScript with Emscripten

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Post by lxtx » Tue, Apr 07, 2020, 3:59 AM UTC

k__ wrote: post #73

lxtx wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Basically yes, a custom datachannel implementation. Haven't updated it lately, but it's up at https://github.com/seemk/WebUDP

Pretty cool. You don't happen to have some ping comparisons betwen WebRTC and WebSockets?

Sadly no, but I don't think there's much of a ping difference on a good network. With WebRTC (datachannels in UDP mode) you just get the benefits of UDP (or lack thereof :)).