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GwtQuake: Taking the Web to the Next Level (HTML5+WebGL Quake)

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If you think that's wild, check out nativeclient (http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/); it makes WebGL and HTML5 look like a quick hack. Not that I am hating on either one, but nativeclient could certainly be the end-all-be-all of disseminating between which applications your desktop is running and which applications is the web running on your desktop.

http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/wiki/BuildingAndRun...

Anyone care to host a game on their server?

I would imagine it would take a quite a while to run, as a whole level's worth of resources would need to be loaded. Id's style of game engine precaches all needed resources at the start of a level to avoid glitches when using a resource for the first time, where the game would need to wait for the hard drive to fetch the resource..

A game that doesn't do this is Far Cry, for example. When you first fire a new weapon in that game, it can pause for a few tenths of a second while it loads the sound - just when you need the weapon most.

It's not that bad, since this is the web, the game runs as soon as the geometry is loaded, textures are loaded on the file like images in a web page, so you don't have to wait (a hologram texture is shown for missing textures that haven't loaded yet). About 10-30 seconds to start depending on bandwidth, and once started, the resources are cached by the browser until they expire.

I can't get chromium or chrome to display anything WebGL. Has anyone not on Mac had success?

I got the server\code to compile in CygWin and run under windows7 64bit, I just can't get chrome\chromium to display WebGL.

I'm using the windows nighly build of chromium and "--enable-webgl --no-sandbox" as mentioned here: http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/wiki/CompatibleBrow...

I thought this was another April Fools', and I was wrong. I've installed and it magically works.

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/9234/screenshot20100401at23...

Can't believe it.

What is console command to draw fps in top right? I can only remember 'timerefresh'.

When I launched it, it was drawing fps already.

The command to show FPS is "/fps 1".

Not april fools.

I'm hoping WebGL and the other technologies pick up penetration.

I'm starting to see more browser-games using Unity and i'd really like to not have yet another proprietary plugin to rely on (and all the issues they bring).

Considering that browsers allow for such plugins to be installed almost painlessly, I don't understand why we don't see more of these plugins ... so be grateful for that.

I actually wish that Google keeps their O3D plugin alive. While WebGL is nice, O3D has certain feature that make it much better for complex projects such as games and in my case visualization apps.

I've built it, and played the level included. The sound is still a little bit sketchy, but my mind is blown. Wow, just wow.

Quake 2 came out in 1997, 13 years ago. So HTML is catching up... slowly.

You'll notice that most of the technologies used is this, such as <canvas>, WebSockets and WebGL, were all created quite recently. A lot has changed with the web in the last few years.

His point is that we're all in awe of something that was already done 17 years ago, except it's now hip for being on the web. He's right.

Except it's awesome!

Off windows, it probably takes more processor to run the youtube video than it would to run the game. I'm in.

That's Quake 2, not Quake.

Holly shit, is this real?

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