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WebGL game: Tankworld

58 points by Raphael 16y ago

akanet 16y ago
Cute but not terribly fun.
- joshu 16y ago
  The strange horizon made my neck hurt.
piguy314 16y ago
Somebody should port Duke Nukem 3D to WebGL. The original game has been open source since 2003 (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D#Source_code https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D...)
vyrotek 16y ago
Played it for a few minutes and dominated a handful of tanks with the helicopter. I'm usually a huge fan of this style of game but I think they are more fun in 2D than this style of 3D. I wish someone would make a MMO version of the Tank game on Wii Play. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqEoZivjnU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqEoZivjnU)
burgerbrain 16y ago
Terribly hard to aim.
mrdoob2 16y ago
I thought it was Canvas2D and not WebGL... ?
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leon_ 16y ago
Hmm, is Chrome's WebGL implementation just so slow or why feels the game so sluggish? I assumed WebGL was using 3d HW accel?
- tomjen3 16y ago
  When I tried to play that game in Chrome my computer locked me out! (yeah, that wasn't a failure mode I even knew existed). So consider yourself lucky.
- chris_j 16y ago
  It's slow for me too (Chrome on Linux) but I thought that was because I don't have hardware acceleration working on my Acer netbook. What hardware/OS are you using?
- nextparadigms 16y ago
  Yeah, Chrome is not fully hardware accelerated yet and I don't think it will be until at least v11. In a recent test by DownloadSquad it seems they are the ones behind the most in this, even behind Opera. I don't know why they missed this opportunity and didn't give it a higher priority. It's the same problem with hardware acceleration on Android all over again. It's almost like Google and anything graphics related don't mix, even though improving full hardware acceleration performance is probably as important for the further development of the web as improving Javascript performance was. I think this will be where the new battle between browsers will be in 2011 and 2012 at least. Here's the benchmark video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-cpc8XpDo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-cpc8XpDo
  - sorbus 16y ago
    > I don't think it will be until at least v11 In 11.0.691.0 canary, GPU acceleration of Canvas is still an option in about:flags, just as it is in 9.0.597.107. GPU accelerated compositing is no longer optional, though, it appears. Of course, that's only the canary build, and I expect that the 11.x build that's actually released will be somewhat different, but still.
sdm 16y ago
Incorrect title. From the about page: "The engine does not use WebGL because most people don't have enabled it yet." This is not a WebGL game.
- pygy_ 16y ago
  It is. ## WebGL Test version... ## The WebGL version of Tankworld is under construction. If your browser supports WebGL then you can already check out a preview level...[1] 1. http://www.playtankworld.com/level/60_second_shooting_range?webgl=true http://www.playtankworld.com/level/60_second_shooting_range?...
  - VMG 16y ago
    Wireframy and not as smooth as the other (flash I suppose) version with latest Chromium on arch linux. Too bad.
DjDarkman 16y ago
The helicopter is imba, runs great. :)
eberfreitas 16y ago
Smooth!
Arno 16y ago
The test version is now replaced with a new version which runs a lot smoother... One of the major problems with the test version was the rotation of the tiles which was done within the perspective matrix. The tiles were also rendered separately. In the new engine those problems are fixed along with the texturing of the ground.

58 points by Raphael 16y ago

akanet 16y ago

Cute but not terribly fun.

joshu 16y ago
The strange horizon made my neck hurt.

piguy314 16y ago

Somebody should port Duke Nukem 3D to WebGL. The original game has been open source since 2003 (https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D#Source_code https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Duke_Nukem_3D...)

vyrotek 16y ago

Played it for a few minutes and dominated a handful of tanks with the helicopter. I'm usually a huge fan of this style of game but I think they are more fun in 2D than this style of 3D. I wish someone would make a MMO version of the Tank game on Wii Play. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqEoZivjnU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMqEoZivjnU)

burgerbrain 16y ago

Terribly hard to aim.

mrdoob2 16y ago

I thought it was Canvas2D and not WebGL... ?

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leon_ 16y ago

Hmm, is Chrome's WebGL implementation just so slow or why feels the game so sluggish? I assumed WebGL was using 3d HW accel?

tomjen3 16y ago
When I tried to play that game in Chrome my computer locked me out! (yeah, that wasn't a failure mode I even knew existed). So consider yourself lucky.
chris_j 16y ago
It's slow for me too (Chrome on Linux) but I thought that was because I don't have hardware acceleration working on my Acer netbook. What hardware/OS are you using?
nextparadigms 16y ago
Yeah, Chrome is not fully hardware accelerated yet and I don't think it will be until at least v11. In a recent test by DownloadSquad it seems they are the ones behind the most in this, even behind Opera. I don't know why they missed this opportunity and didn't give it a higher priority. It's the same problem with hardware acceleration on Android all over again. It's almost like Google and anything graphics related don't mix, even though improving full hardware acceleration performance is probably as important for the further development of the web as improving Javascript performance was. I think this will be where the new battle between browsers will be in 2011 and 2012 at least. Here's the benchmark video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-cpc8XpDo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uU-cpc8XpDo
- sorbus 16y ago
  > I don't think it will be until at least v11 In 11.0.691.0 canary, GPU acceleration of Canvas is still an option in about:flags, just as it is in 9.0.597.107. GPU accelerated compositing is no longer optional, though, it appears. Of course, that's only the canary build, and I expect that the 11.x build that's actually released will be somewhat different, but still.

sdm 16y ago

Incorrect title. From the about page: "The engine does not use WebGL because most people don't have enabled it yet." This is not a WebGL game.

pygy_ 16y ago
It is. ## WebGL Test version... ## The WebGL version of Tankworld is under construction. If your browser supports WebGL then you can already check out a preview level...[1] 1. http://www.playtankworld.com/level/60_second_shooting_range?webgl=true http://www.playtankworld.com/level/60_second_shooting_range?...
- VMG 16y ago
  Wireframy and not as smooth as the other (flash I suppose) version with latest Chromium on arch linux. Too bad.

DjDarkman 16y ago

The helicopter is imba, runs great. :)

eberfreitas 16y ago

Smooth!

Arno 16y ago

The test version is now replaced with a new version which runs a lot smoother... One of the major problems with the test version was the rotation of the tiles which was done within the perspective matrix. The tiles were also rendered separately. In the new engine those problems are fixed along with the texturing of the ground.