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Play Wolfenstein 3D in a browser
- aw3c2 15y agoand watch John Carmack's commentary on Wolf3D at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amDtAPHH-zE
- jiggy2011 15y agoWorth watching, many words of Wisdom in there for aspiring game developers, or developers in general. He talks about how he specifically designed wolf3d so that you could just "bang enter a couple of times" and be into the game while modern AAA titles can have complex interfaces. Also how you should be able to hack together the core concepts of a good game with a small team in a few months (as they did with wolf3d).
- JackdawX 15y agoGreat link, thanks.
- alainbryden 15y agoIf only I wasn't at work...
- huskyr 15y agoAs far as i can see, this is all done without the canvas tag or webGL, just lots of divs and CSS. Impressive :) For those who just want to play directly: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html
- MatthewPhillips 15y agoYeah, pretty slow because of that (at least on my computer). Definitely not an html5 showcase, but impressive that they were able to pull it off without canvas.
- SaigonKick 15y agoLooks like a lot of Javascript too! http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/load.js http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/js/load.js
- azakai 15y agoInteresting, it looks like they rewrote all the code in JS. I wonder why they didn't compile it. Just speculation, but compiling might have led to a faster result (the compiled Doom was faster than this). edit: Nevermind, looks like it renders using divs and not canvas. I guess they focused on compatibility with as many browsers as possible and not on performance.
- EdgarVerona 15y agoThe other interesting thing is that it renders those divs as single pixel wide strips, apparently just as the original Wolfenstein did rendering for walls and such. Pretty cool!
- Eduard 15y agoNo z key / y key distinction built-in. This game sucks on German keyboards.
- aw3c2 15y agoWell, it is banned in Germany anyways. ;) You can rebind the keys in the options.
- Argorak 15y agoNo, its not banned. Since April 2012. Bethesda is working hard to get all of IDs IP approved again. Doom, Doom 2 and Quake are also not banned anymore. http://www.areagames.de/artikel/detail/Indizierungen-im-April-2012-Kein-Spiel-betroffen/119138 http://www.areagames.de/artikel/detail/Indizierungen-im-Apri... (link in german, obviously :) )
- bitboxer 15y agoThe site IS banning german users. I see a fat warning info screen instead of the game.
- Argorak 15y agoHm, not for me :/. Well, there is still the rule about mature content before 22:00 sigh and all that stuff.
- aw3c2 15y agoWolfenstein 3D is banned. It is just not "indiziert" anymore. It is never going to be unbanned because of the unconstitutional stuff (swastikas, HorstWessel Song etc). Your link is about a different game by the way.
- pitiburi 15y agoI also got the "Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site." My question is, then, why am I able to play Enemy Territory and go through forums of it?
- cleverjake 15y agoholy crap - pure html/css/js - no webgl. thats insane.
- checkers 15y agoCheck http://techiest.blogspot.com/ http://techiest.blogspot.com/ dude its insanely great!
- manveru 15y agoBlocked at least in Austria
- icode 15y agoAnd in Germany. Whats a good proxy to see it anyhow?
- TazeTSchnitzel 15y agoIt might work directly: http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html http://wolfenstein.bethsoft.com/game/wolf3d.html
- LukaD 15y agoNope. Doesn't work.
- roschdal 15y agoThis has already been done long ago, here: http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/ http://www.nihilogic.dk/labs/wolf/
- lunixbochs 15y agoThat canvas renderer is really buggy.
- augusto_hp 15y agoIt was done for a contest with a given limit LOC. The idea of the guy was not to create a perfect port, was to create something like wolf3d with little lines of code. It is buggy on "purpuse" in some kind of way ...
- its_so_on 15y agohow far we have come, and yet...how far we have yet to come. I speak, of course, of DOOM - in pure CSS. The gold standard of...I'm not sure, but it's gotta be something.
- michaelmior 15y agoWorked flawlessly and fast for me. More than I can say about most WebGL/Flash games I've tried.
- kinleyd 15y agoAh, Wolfenstein... takes me back to some good gaming days in my youth. :)
- webXL 15y agoI was so psyched when I first played this because Castle Wolfenstein* was the first computer game I was addicted to. Something about sneaking up on Nazis and filling them up with lead. It never gets old! * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein
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- kinleyd 15y agoIn addition to Wolfenstein: My first addiction: Space Invaders (1982-84) Next major addiction: Test Drive (1989-90) Thereafter: Hacking in some form or other... little time for games. :)
- randomdrake 15y agoAnyone else disappointed to find "MIL" didn't work? Also I'm very surprised in myself that I remember where so many of the secret doors are. Ahhh nostalgia.
- baconhigh 15y agothe JS code is in there for god mode and "give all" :) function debugGiveAll() function debugGodMode(enable)
- phoboslab 15y agoI feel like a second class citizen. I can't play the game, nor watch the video (without proxies and stuff), because - oh my god - there's swastikas in them. Anyway, mirror of the game: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/ http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/ Uploading the video now... [edit]: http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/commentary.flv http://www.phoboslab.org/crap/wolf3d/commentary.flv
- mkup 15y agoWhich key should I press to shoot? Original DOS version used [Ctrl] as far as I remember. It doesn't work in browser.
- agazso 15y agoPress 'x' to shoot.
- petercooper 15y agoIt's funny how muscle memory is. I just instinctively went for Ctrl 20 years on!
- upinsmoke 15y agoI was frustrated that CTRL didn't work as well, because Space worked for open doors.
- richardlblair 15y agoTake that productivity!
- jiggy2011 15y agoIf you like the old Wolf3d you should check out catacomb abyss which was the predecessor to wolf and had many of the same devs (including Carmack). A very underrated game.
- vbtemp 15y agoThis is a scam, I distinctly remember from my time playing this in the early nineties, that holding down the I + L + M keys all at the same time would give you full health, full ammo, and both keys. This doesn't have that!!!!
- KonradKlause 15y ago"Sorry, your IP address shows you are coming from a country that requires us to block access to this particular site." Is .at now on the axis of evil?
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- philwelch 15y agoIt's illegal to have swastikas in a video game in some European countries; Austria might be one of these.
- ekianjo 15y agoI always wonder what they try to achieve by hiding swastikas. I mean, come on, you can find swastikas everywhere if you look at greek vases, at Japan maps (temples are symbolized with swastikas in Japan), and in a number of ancestral cultures. It's completely ridiculous, and it does not prevent anyway right-wing extremism in the countries mentioned.
- rosstafarian 15y agoThe the full ios version of wolf3d is free[1] today too :) [1]http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-platinum/id309470478?mt=8 http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wolfenstein-3d-classic-platin...
- hsshah 15y agoWorked great! There goes my time down the drain! Can we have nonprocrast for all submitted sites as well? ;-)