Unreal Tournament 99 intro flyby in web browser

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20 points·dmitshur··6 comments

This is a fair bit more than that, "Hit ESC to begin" actually takes you to the main menu.

That said... I got an (untraceable) Emscripten JS exception when I tried to start a new game.

As an aside, I tried this on an old ThinkPad X61, and the System Console resizes and moves around the screen with really no noteable lag. I know, it's just a dialog box, but I'm still reasonably impressed (Windowmanager in UT99->OpenGL->JS->JIT->DOM->C++->X11->screen)

Yeah, this is basically the real UT99 codebase ported to run in the browser, but only includes resource files sufficient for the intro and main menu.

The author outlined this in one of the bullet points.

I agree, the main menu was equally impressively responsive for me, even at 2560x1600 resolution.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-doGsRVoAAAOco.jpg:orig

The author tweeted about this at https://twitter.com/icculus/status/857677043542130688, and there's some discussion in the replies.

Competition & diversity is good, right? But people pretend there is nothing besides Steam, if you're looking to purchase games.

Here, have at least one alternative: https://www.gog.com/games?sort=bestselling&search=unreal&pag...

UT99 is still a very beautiful & atmospheric game today.

Wasn't the unreal flyby one of the early .asm / emscripten demos? I feel like I've seen this before.

You're probably thinking of the Epic Citadel tech demo [1]. It was specifically created for demonstrating emscripten on Unreal Engine 3.

This is the original UT99 game instead. It's similar, but not the same.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_Citadel

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