Re:Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
by russelldjimmy on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @01:02AM
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Also see Quake 3 JS! http://www.quakejs.com/
I found no flaws. Just as fun as the original. And as a mac user, being able to play this after all those chip transitions is a blessing.
Re:Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
by pyrryh on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @06:07AM
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Yeah, seen that too, very cool. It pleases me to be able to play stuff simply by visiting a website. Solves many Linux-related problems as well. I wish some community-made mods made it to CS 1.6 with sentries and lasers, that really ups the game.
Re:Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
by i2Witty on Monday May 30, 2022 @01:25PM
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What is the technology behind this? Did they just port over the game using pure JS?
Re:Ask HN: What video games do you play during the day?
by pyrryh on Tuesday May 31, 2022 @05:59AM
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https://github.com/FWGS/xash3d-fwgs
https://github.com/FWGS/cs16-client (but this is closed source now, I don't know exactly how they use it, maybe there is some different fork of `cs16-client`)
These two are what their own references point to when you load the game.
Been quite surprised to find fully functional CS 1.6 in a browser, but that's it. Heard that the latency is worse compared to the game client, haven't checked that myself because I don't want to bother buying or pirating the original version. Main use case: playing at work when you can't install random binaries but can visit websites (this use case isn't mine but I've been asking players there and they responded in this way).