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Impressive to see C being able to create x-plat 3D games that run in Browser + popular Desktop + Mobile OS's.

Typically there's big companies with large dev teams working on accomplishing such a feat & this project does it with with a 50 year old language and a handful of libs

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Not to diminish the value of their efforts, welcome to the days of 16 bit game programming, naturally minus the browser part.

Plenty of retrogaming stuff to learn from.

I've liked Raylib lately for writing graphicsy applications. Here's a small example that does 3d, runs in the browser, code shown below: https://www.raylib.com/examples/core/loader.html?name=core_3...

What's the TLDR on how to compile the C code to run in the browser?

Emscripten. If you use something like SDL porting is trivial.

Working on a project to port a 20 plus year old c/cpp code base to the web. The tooling was like 98% there but I've had to upstream a few fixes or find a workaround every now and then.

Good on you man. If I got an email that said “opportunity: port 20+ cpp app to web” I would chuckle and close that sucker real quick. Modern cpp I maybe can deal with. That 90s stuff is real bad.

It's actually a purely voluntary endeavor. I'm attempting to port a game engine called Zelda Classic to the web. So far, so good!

Here's a little template that uses Raylib: https://github.com/nikki93/raylib-template

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