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Geek Culture / Google Ports Quake 2 to the Browser

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JoelJ
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 01:16
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Don't know how many of you saw this, but Google released the source code for a GWT (read: javascript) port of Quake 2. They were getting between 30-60FPS on their laptops!

Check it out:
http://code.google.com/p/quake2-gwt-port/

there's a youtube video of them playing it in safari.

Note: This doesn't use any plugins. HTML5 canvas, HTML5 audio, HTML5 storage, etc

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Oolite
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 01:29
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Saw this yesterday, thought it was pretty sweet but also remembered it was April Fools so I didn't check into it further.

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budokaiman
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 01:41
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Quote: "Saw this yesterday, thought it was pretty sweet but also remembered it was April Fools so I didn't check into it further."

I just quickly browsed the source that they have uploaded, it looks like they have actually done this.

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bitJericho
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 04:32
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That's insanely cool

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Dark Dragon
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 04:33
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Awsome!!

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charger bandit
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 10:06
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Uh its nothing special,you can play Quake Live through Java for quite some time now.


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Blobby 101
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2010 10:11
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@Charger, but this uses just HTML5 and JS no Java at all and no other plugins. I'd say that's amazing.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 4th Apr 2010 06:13
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Quote: "Uh its nothing special,you can play Quake Live through Java for quite some time now.
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Uh... yes it is. This isn't running in Java. It's running in your browser. Javascript and HTML. No pluggins, like blobby 101 said.

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charger bandit
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Posted: 4th Apr 2010 10:20
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I guess my post wasnt correct.Quake Live runs through Javascript and your browser too so nothing special.


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jeffhuys
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Posted: 4th Apr 2010 16:55
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Quote: "I guess my post wasnt correct.Quake Live runs through Javascript and your browser too so nothing special.
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With some effort they can have whole ENGINES running inside a browser, but that's still using plugins. This doesn't, you can just go to that webpage and you can play the game!

So yeah, it's special.

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JoelJ
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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 07:11 Edited at: 5th Apr 2010 07:13
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Quote: "I guess my post wasnt correct.Quake Live runs through Javascript and your browser too so nothing special."

*bang head*

Quote: "Quake Live (previously known as Quake Zero) is a free FPS video game by id Software designed to run on x86-based computers running Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X or Linux that is downloaded and launched via a web browser plugin."

That's NOT the same as running a full-blow game from the browser with NO PLUGINS. It's 100% HTML and Javascript. This is the first and only 3d game that does what it does with no plugins.

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Shadowtroid
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Think of it this way...It's like Youtube, but instead of skateboarding dogs, it's Quake 2.

NO plugins people.

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Apr 2010 20:54
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It might be a good time to learn WebGL and make a 3D browser game of my own. Would be fun


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Blobby 101
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 00:12
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Shadowtroid: Urrhm, I think you'll find that Youtube uses flash which, last time I checked, was a plugin

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JoelJ
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 04:46
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Quote: "Shadowtroid: Urrhm, I think you'll find that Youtube uses flash which, last time I checked, was a plugin
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You can turn on HTML5 support for youtube videos that don't have ads

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Blobby 101
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Posted: 6th Apr 2010 13:08
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Quote: "You can turn on HTML5 support for youtube videos that don't have ads"

Oh, really? Wow, didn't know that HTML 5 is certainly very powerful!

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