I LOVE this! You did a bang up job, is the skin change function coming in a future update?
CSS is DOOMed
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#52What a master class in linear algebra…
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#53This feels like one of those “because we can” projects that accidentally reveals where the platform is going.
CSS started as purely declarative styling, but between things like conditionals, math functions, and now these rendering tricks, it’s slowly creeping into “programmable system” territory. Not because it’s the right tool for it, but because browsers are becoming the real runtime. The interesting question isn’t “can Doom run in CSS”, it’s how much logic we’ll keep pushing into layers that were never meant to handle it.
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#56I try a simple absolutely layout (all calculated on a server), and helps me a lot.
1) no reflow
2) very few exceptions
3) WAY EASIER FOR LLMs
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#57But where can I try it out in my browser? EDIT: https://cssdoom.wtf/
My phone IMMEDIATELY got toasty as I started moving around the world :')
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#58But where can I try it out in my browser? EDIT: https://cssdoom.wtf/
Works smoothly in Firefox. But the default key mapping is busted: fire at Alt means that it opens and closes the menu in Firefox with each press. Also, Alt + left arrow ends the game and goes back in history. Interestingly, it was more choppy in Chromium. I could not find a key for moving sideways ("strafing"). All in all, quite mind-boggling.
There are some new key-trap ApIs that can handle that, IIRC FF don't handle that part as well as Chrome.
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#59Creating 3D scenes with CSS has always been possible[0], but like this project, it's required JavaScript for interactivity. But there's a lot more CSS features now. While in the past, Turing completeness in CSS required humans to click on checkboxes, now CSS can emulate an entire CPU without JavaScript or requiring user interaction.[1] So I wonder if DOOM could be purely CSS too, in real time. [0]: https://keithclark…
I feel obliged to repeat my assertion that this evolution of CSS was inevitable and foreseeable and that the HTML Editorial Review Board should’ve chosen DSSSL in the first place.
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#60In 2006, Ars Technica published an April Fool's article[0] declaring that the perennially-forthcoming Duke Nukem Forever would finally see the light of day... as... a browser game ! Ho ho, how droll. Crazy to see how far we've come. [0]: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2006/04/forever/
Quake Live did come out as a browser NaCl game a year or so later.
It was a traditional plugin (NPAPI), not NaCl (Native Client). Honestly a total gimmick. I still play Quake Live, though!