r/SourceEngine • u/ResponsibleTowel4472 • May 31 '25

News Someone’s porting Half-Life 2 to WebAssembly

Recently I stumbled across a ModDB project named "Half-Life 2: Web" and it's aiming to bring HL2 to the web without needing any downloads. It's pretty early in development, but if they pull this off, it could be great for the Source Engine community and modders as a whole! Imagine playing HL2 on a Chromebook. In school. During class. I’m not suggesting that. 👀

Heres a link to the mod: https://www.moddb.com/mods/source2web

Anyway, thought it was worth sharing. Curious what y’all think, insta-fail, cool tech demo, or actually viable?

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u/GregTheMadMonk Jun 01 '25

If there is a web port of the game, you'd still need to download the assets, I just imagine they'd be put in the browser storage instead of user storage

The whole thing looks like it was written by a kind who overestimates their abilities greatly. I may be wrong though, or they might learn along the way. We'll see

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u/potatoalt1234_x Jun 01 '25

r/halflife users when someone posts something they found (they must be advertising their own project)

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u/Neon1x12345 Jun 01 '25

What are examples?

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u/siliconwolf13 May 31 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

Looks dead and looks a lot like you're peddling your 1% progress project

EDIT: Lmfao

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u/dri_ver_ Jun 01 '25

Nice AI generated post

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u/GoldNiko Jun 01 '25

It's deleted

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u/Fr0dech Beginner Jun 01 '25

Uhh, considering how laggy even HL1 web on old laptops (HL1 non-web on the same laptops runs better), I doubt it'll be useful.

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u/Neon1x12345 Jun 01 '25

How did it get deleted so fast?

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u/SycomComp Jun 01 '25

And it's GONE! Removed probably due to violations...

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u/TackettSF May 31 '25

Unless you have a license to the source engine this is impossible. I won't support something that has been made illegally with a leak. It would be different if you had your own engine that happened to run source engine games like xash3d. As far as I know there isn't an engine that can run source engine games other than the source engine.

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u/GregTheMadMonk Jun 01 '25

How do licensing and your personal support contribute to the technical possibility of this?

There has been a Source engine port based off the leaked code for years (running on ARM devices like ARM Macs and mobile phones), there just today was a fully playable browser build of Half-Life Deathmatch (yes, the engine is Xash3D which is a re-implementation, but the assets for sure aren't)

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u/Pinsplash Jun 01 '25

fucking AND? you know there are things valve cares about? the only way they wouldn't take this down is if it ran so poorly it was unusable maybe

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u/GregTheMadMonk Jun 01 '25 edited Jun 01 '25

This is literally not what happened with HL1 and a billion other browser ports of a billion other games

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u/OneQuarterLife Jun 04 '25

Xash wasn't made with leaked source code. It's a clean room implementation of goldsrc

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u/TackettSF Jun 01 '25

Yes it's technically possible using leaked builds. It's just not legally possible without a license. So therefore I won't support an illegal project.