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Xibalba – A WebGL Shooter and Making-Of Screencast

66 points by phoboslab 12y ago

albertzeyer 12y ago
Very annoying that the space key scrolls down.
- mattbreeden 12y ago
  When my input is captured in the game window the space key fires the weapons.
kevando 12y ago
I'm using Chrome, but the game tells me to get chrome. Do I need cookies enabled?
- azakai 12y ago
  Works well here in firefox and chrome. Does WebGL work on your machine? If not maybe that's it, and it is suggesting you update (although it does sound confusing).
grundprinzip 12y ago
The soundtrack is really awesome and fits perfectly!
- Mithaldu 12y ago
  In fact, without the soundscape making it feel very lively i wouldn't have spent as much time on it as it did. It actually surprised me. The only other game i can remember which did it that well was Albion on DOS.
double051 12y ago
This is sweet! You have intuitive controls, interesting enemies, and fun combat going on.
Kiro 12y ago
Works really great on Chrome for Android.
triptych 12y ago
Was recently released on iOS as well.
__david__ 12y ago
Pretty neat! My only real complaint was the browser (Firefox 32 beta) started off nice and smooth but by the 3rd or 4th level things were very choppy and uneven. It wasn't detecting my keystrokes very well during the choppy parts, causing me to waste missiles on the headcrab-ish guys. Also, it wasn't entirely clear that I had to shoot the final boss guy when he was mad that I beat him at simon. I just sort of had to guess based on behaviors of other games I've played.
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- davexunit 12y ago
  How the hell is this a minecraft clone? Because it uses tiles and low-resolution textures?
  - gnarbarian 12y ago
    Sprites, No vertical component (game is played on a flat plane), low res textures, Definitely closer to the original Wolfenstein than Minecraft.
cygni 12y ago
Nice! I love The Fountain references :)
thurn 12y ago
So does Impact support WebGL now? Last time I checked it didn't & they had no plans to support it.
- kevingadd 12y ago
  It looks like it's using a plugin called 'twopointfive' that offers WebGL support, based on the minified JS source. https://github.com/phoboslab/twopointfive https://github.com/phoboslab/twopointfive
hcarvalhoalves 12y ago
The character design is pretty cool. The final boss was a surprise. It's like a DOS game from the future!
cdi 12y ago
The Final boss fight was a little unintuitive for me. I thought it was completely a puzzle or a memory task, because you can't damage him right away. So I repeated his patterns with increasing difficulty, up to six beeps I think, waiting for him to implode from his anger. The fact that you need to shoot him while he's in the angry state wasn't obvious to me.
CmonDev 12y ago
Wow, it is possible to implement an entry-level shooter using a flavour of OpenGL and a high-level scripting language? Who would've thought.
notastartup 12y ago
omg I just submitted it only to be led here. well, the game was so fun to play. like I finished the game.

66 points by phoboslab 12y ago

albertzeyer 12y ago

Very annoying that the space key scrolls down.

mattbreeden 12y ago
When my input is captured in the game window the space key fires the weapons.

kevando 12y ago

I'm using Chrome, but the game tells me to get chrome. Do I need cookies enabled?

azakai 12y ago
Works well here in firefox and chrome. Does WebGL work on your machine? If not maybe that's it, and it is suggesting you update (although it does sound confusing).

grundprinzip 12y ago

The soundtrack is really awesome and fits perfectly!

Mithaldu 12y ago
In fact, without the soundscape making it feel very lively i wouldn't have spent as much time on it as it did. It actually surprised me. The only other game i can remember which did it that well was Albion on DOS.

double051 12y ago

This is sweet! You have intuitive controls, interesting enemies, and fun combat going on.

Kiro 12y ago

Works really great on Chrome for Android.

triptych 12y ago

Was recently released on iOS as well.

__david__ 12y ago

Pretty neat! My only real complaint was the browser (Firefox 32 beta) started off nice and smooth but by the 3rd or 4th level things were very choppy and uneven. It wasn't detecting my keystrokes very well during the choppy parts, causing me to waste missiles on the headcrab-ish guys. Also, it wasn't entirely clear that I had to shoot the final boss guy when he was mad that I beat him at simon. I just sort of had to guess based on behaviors of other games I've played.

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davexunit 12y ago
How the hell is this a minecraft clone? Because it uses tiles and low-resolution textures?
- gnarbarian 12y ago
  Sprites, No vertical component (game is played on a flat plane), low res textures, Definitely closer to the original Wolfenstein than Minecraft.

cygni 12y ago

Nice! I love The Fountain references :)

thurn 12y ago

So does Impact support WebGL now? Last time I checked it didn't & they had no plans to support it.

kevingadd 12y ago
It looks like it's using a plugin called 'twopointfive' that offers WebGL support, based on the minified JS source. https://github.com/phoboslab/twopointfive https://github.com/phoboslab/twopointfive

hcarvalhoalves 12y ago

The character design is pretty cool. The final boss was a surprise. It's like a DOS game from the future!

cdi 12y ago

The Final boss fight was a little unintuitive for me. I thought it was completely a puzzle or a memory task, because you can't damage him right away. So I repeated his patterns with increasing difficulty, up to six beeps I think, waiting for him to implode from his anger. The fact that you need to shoot him while he's in the angry state wasn't obvious to me.

CmonDev 12y ago

Wow, it is possible to implement an entry-level shooter using a flavour of OpenGL and a high-level scripting language? Who would've thought.

notastartup 12y ago

omg I just submitted it only to be led here. well, the game was so fun to play. like I finished the game.