small bug : you can attack and kill your own units :)
Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
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Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#32For anyone interested in playing Dune II natively I highly recommend Dune Legacy[0] - an open source implementation which
I personally found much better than OpenDUNE, which the link is based on.
[0] http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/dunelegacy/index.php?t...
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#33The download is pretty massive, it is 6235641 bytes. Which is slow even on the multihomed fiber connection I am on. Still pretty neat.
That's only 6MB, I think the server is just getting hit pretty bad from all the traffic
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#34I played this game a lot a few years ago :). It amazing/annoying how different the UI is from the modern games. For example to move a unit you must click the "move" button and the click the place where you want to go. There are a million of details that make modern games easier to play.
Haha, yeah, I noticed that immediately because I tried to "micro" like in Starcraft. Cycling units being attacked out of battles and units attacking in, etc.. Not sure if I had the same concepts back when I played it as a kid, heh.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#35Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#36small bug : you can attack and kill your own units :)
That's not a bug.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#37I'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.
Maybe a silly question: do copyrights for games (art or whatever) ever expire?
I believe this would be the correct copyright term for a game made by a game company.(every body who made it works for the game company so it should all fall under work for hire). Instead of the usual death + 70.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries%27_copyright_...
95 years from publication or 120 years from creation whichever is shorter (anonymous works, pseudonymous works, or works made for hire, published since 1978)
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#38Just awesome. Dune II was a big part of my childhood. :)
Same here. I spent countless hours playing this in 1992, back when I was tiny and my English skillz were severely lacking. Words like "siege tank" were beyond me, so the siege tank was nicknamed after my fat aunt, the MVC after my handy uncle etc. Brings back memories.
Haha, us too. It got to where me and my friends who played it would call someone a harvester if they kept getting lost IRL due to their stupidity
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#39Funny, I've been replaying Dune 2 over the past week and a half. Despite the controls being somewhat clunky (no selecting multiple units, your units won't defend themselves in a lot of cases, etc.) this game has character and charm, not to mention hours and hours of gameplay. I have been hoping that games like this, King's Bounty, Settlers, XCom, and others from that era would show up for mobile platforms. A lot of them would work really well on a touchscreen device.
Re: Dune II ported to the Web with Emscripten
#40Anyone else having trouble getting it running? I'm on a very fast internet connection and it's been 2-3 minutes of black screen already.
Doesn't run on Firefox for me, but does on Chrome. (Man I hate saying that as I am a Firefox fanboy)
It took quite a while to load, but it worked fine on Firefox for me.