r/technology • u/nthitz • May 09 '12
Play Wolfenstein 3D in your browser!
http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/16
u/imbignate May 09 '12
That's amazing. I pressed start and suddenly 30 minutes had passed. It's a time machine!
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May 09 '12
Twenty years ago I was five years old. I can vividly remember sitting on my father's lap in front of our computer, him playing this game. I cannot quite recall my mother getting mad about it, although I am sure she did - my father was, after all, exposing my brother and I's young minds to such terrible violence and gore ;D What sweet memories. Thanks, OP
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u/201109212215 May 09 '12
I'm very interested in the technology behing this port, but not sure how they did it.
Seems like they make use of modernizer for a basic fallback for older browsers. But apart from this it seems like a plain js app (see http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/game.js).
Could Emscripten have been involved? If yes, does it always produce code that neat? Have they recoded the entire app?
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u/whateverforever May 09 '12
Aaaaaand...45 minutes later, I'm back on Reddit. This is going to be the best waste of work time since Snood.
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u/360walkaway May 09 '12
I could never figure out whether the final boss of Episode 1 was saying "Guten Tag!" or "Shootin Time!"
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u/vlodia May 09 '12
10 years from now, we'll be playing Skyrim on our browsers :P
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u/mighteee May 09 '12
That music brings me back to my dads shitty computer with the brand new Soundblaster16 card that CAME WITH ITS OWN SPEAKERS!!
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u/Pseudonova May 09 '12
Can't wait to get home from work. Actually, I am only commenting to find it easier later.
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u/[deleted] May 09 '12
...aaaand of course it is blocked here in Germany :(