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Google Gets Quake II Running In HTML5

Posted by Soulskill on from the browsing-for-strogg dept.

Dr Herbert West writes "A trio of Google engineers have ported id Software's gib-filled first-person shooter Quake II to browsers — you know, for kicks — as a way to show just what HTML5-compatible web browsers are capable of. According to the developers, 'We started with the existing Jake2 Java port of the Quake II engine, then used the Google Web Toolkit (along with WebGL, WebSockets, and a lot of refactoring) to cross-compile it into JavaScript.' More details are available on one developer's blog, and installation instructions have been posted as well."

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  1. Re:OMGLOLWTF by qoncept · · Score: 5, Funny

    wan't

    I think that's the popular contraction of "wang" and "not." Am I correct? If so, your sentence doesn't make sense.

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  2. Re:Proof of Concept by NatasRevol · · Score: 5, Funny

    For the love of God, I hope so.

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