{"id":636,"date":"2010-04-02T10:35:19","date_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/you-can-now-play-quake-ii-with-html5\/"},"modified":"2010-04-02T10:38:45","modified_gmt":"2010-04-02T16:38:45","slug":"you-can-now-play-quake-ii-with-html5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.evolutionarydesigns.net\/blog\/2010\/04\/02\/you-can-now-play-quake-ii-with-html5\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can Now Play Quake II with HTML5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday Google<\/a> released a video<\/a> of their engineers playing Quake II<\/a> using Safari<\/a> without using plugins. The Engineers used some of their 20% time<\/a> to test the limits of HTML5<\/a>. Their results were an HTML5 port of Id’s Quake II game engine! Normally I would not do a post on video games, but this game is programmed and setup to run via a web browser using HTML5. Run Quake II as the Google Guys set it up shows the potential of HTML5 and the future of web design.\u00a0 Running Quake II\u00a0 with HTML5 will only run on \u201cmodern browsers\u201d such as Safari and Google Chrome<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Quake II Running On Safari Without Plugins<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

So How They Do It?<\/h3>\n

They started with Jake2<\/a>, a Java 3D game engine that is a port of GPL\u2019D Quake2 game engine from ID software. They also used the Google Web Toolkit<\/a>, WebGL, WebSockets, the Canvas API, HTML 5 <audio><\/tt> elements, and local storage API to cross-compile it into Javascript<\/a>. The results can be seen in the video above. They reached 30 to 60 frames per second on laptops! This may very depending on your hardware and internet connection.<\/p>\n

How to Compile Your Own Version of Quake II for HTML5<\/h3>\n

In order to make Jake2 work, you will have to (source: quake2-gwt-port<\/a>):<\/p>\n

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