Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
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Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
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Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#2I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#3I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
And thank god for the original C&C. I still think the soundtrack was brilliant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZAaq5JIhW0
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#4Emscripten is fantastic.
https://github.com/kripken/emscripten
LLVM -> JavaScript. The possibilities are many, wish I had more time to play with this kind of stuff.
I believe it's how http://repl.it and similar sites work.
Tangentially, aside from porting games, http://luatut.com/crash_course.html is one of the better uses [of Emscripten] I've seen. Press Escape and a console drops down. Handy way to learn a language.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#5I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
For me, it's also the predecessor to tower defense games.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#6it seems to have some bugs. I lost a unit in the first level (I know, I know) and tile graphics went bonkers
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#7I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#8Just awesome. Dune II was a big part of my childhood. :)
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#9I'm sure this site will be taken offline for copyright infringement almost immediately, but it really is a decent recreation of the original. It's also historically significant: Dune II is to the real-time strategy genre what Wolfenstein 3D is to the first-person-shooter: not necessary the very first example ever, but the first to achieve notable popularity, and the progenitor of most of the following examples.
No copyright issues; it's based off of OpenDUNE: http://www.opendune.org/
The source-code is probably based off OpenDUNE but I'm pretty sure the art isn't. They'll be taken down for the art for sure ...
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#10Awesome. I'm not so excited about the tiny 320x200 viewport though. Why not zoom it to fit the browser window?
Strangely, they seem to have managed to disable the browser's built-in zooming.
So yeah, fun, but squinty.