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Show HN: Baldur's Gate 2 online demo reimplemented in WASM

43 points by astlouis44 5y ago

astlouis44 5y ago
Hey HN community, this is a port of GemRB which is a reimplementation of the Infinity Engine that powered Baldur's Gate 2. Various optimizations have been made to ensure the game demo loads fast and is performant on all devices. If any users can test on an M1 Macbook it would be great to hear how it performs on this new Apple hardware!
vans554 5y ago
Mouse lag needs to be fixed.
- astlouis44 5y ago
  Yeah for sure, many more optimizations to be made. Thanks for the great feedback!
wiz21c 5y ago
Crashes after a few steps in creating a new character :-( (on firefox 78.10). Too bad it looked good :-)
- astlouis44 5y ago
  Thanks for the feedback! We're trying our best to hunt down bugs in the port. Curious what hardware are you running on btw? Also, try running the demo again in Chrome or Safari.
- khrbrt 5y ago
  For me it froze when selecting "Custom" on the character image. Firefox 88.0.1 on Lenovo T480s running Fedora.
  - majkinetor 5y ago
    It did that for me too. Next time I didn't go there and it worked.
majkinetor 5y ago
Impressive. Tried on Chrome. I had to zoom out to 25% for more clear text. Everything lags, so not really playable but it looks like it works.
- astlouis44 5y ago
  What device did you try on? PC/Mac or mobile? Thanks for the feedback!
  - majkinetor 5y ago
    PC/Windows
moralestapia 5y ago
New-ish chrome here on OS X, slow MacBook yet it runs flawlessly :D
- astlouis44 5y ago
  Try it on an M1 Mac if you can!
  - Octopodes 5y ago
    I tried this in Firefox and Chrome on an M1 Mac, and it went nuts when trying to do the tutorial. After completing my character, the status bar at the bottom just starts filling with huge amounts of text and it's no longer interactive at all.
andreibosco 5y ago
Just did a quick test using Firefox 88.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it ran very well. No mouse lag at all, just some minor UI stuff like strings showing up in the dialogue and interface elements. Great work.
pjmlp 5y ago
Impressed that it actually works on mobile with nice speed.
- astlouis44 5y ago
  Running on iOS?
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Android, Nokia 7+.
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rkagerer 5y ago
Mouse cursor seems offset a fair bit to the left of where I tap, on mobile (Chrome on Android).

43 points by astlouis44 5y ago

Hey HN community, this is a port of GemRB which is a reimplementation of the Infinity Engine that powered Baldur's Gate 2. Various optimizations have been made to ensure the game demo loads fast and is performant on all devices. If any users can test on an M1 Macbook it would be great to hear how it performs on this new Apple hardware!

vans554 5y ago

Mouse lag needs to be fixed.

astlouis44 5y ago
Yeah for sure, many more optimizations to be made. Thanks for the great feedback!

wiz21c 5y ago

Crashes after a few steps in creating a new character :-( (on firefox 78.10). Too bad it looked good :-)

astlouis44 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! We're trying our best to hunt down bugs in the port. Curious what hardware are you running on btw? Also, try running the demo again in Chrome or Safari.
khrbrt 5y ago
For me it froze when selecting "Custom" on the character image. Firefox 88.0.1 on Lenovo T480s running Fedora.
- majkinetor 5y ago
  It did that for me too. Next time I didn't go there and it worked.

majkinetor 5y ago

Impressive. Tried on Chrome. I had to zoom out to 25% for more clear text. Everything lags, so not really playable but it looks like it works.

astlouis44 5y ago
What device did you try on? PC/Mac or mobile? Thanks for the feedback!
- majkinetor 5y ago
  PC/Windows

moralestapia 5y ago

New-ish chrome here on OS X, slow MacBook yet it runs flawlessly :D

astlouis44 5y ago
Try it on an M1 Mac if you can!
- Octopodes 5y ago
  I tried this in Firefox and Chrome on an M1 Mac, and it went nuts when trying to do the tutorial. After completing my character, the status bar at the bottom just starts filling with huge amounts of text and it's no longer interactive at all.

andreibosco 5y ago

Just did a quick test using Firefox 88.0.1 on Ubuntu 20.04 and it ran very well. No mouse lag at all, just some minor UI stuff like strings showing up in the dialogue and interface elements. Great work.

pjmlp 5y ago

Impressed that it actually works on mobile with nice speed.

astlouis44 5y ago
Running on iOS?
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Android, Nokia 7+.

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rkagerer 5y ago

Mouse cursor seems offset a fair bit to the left of where I tap, on mobile (Chrome on Android).