CSSQuake
355 points - today at 10:49 AM
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jedberg today at 2:45 PM
This is an awesome achievement, but I can't help but notice that Quake ran smoother on my Pentium-133 PC in the 90s than it runs on my Mac M1 Pro...
AzzieElbab today at 12:16 PM
Awesome! Harder to exit than vim.
badsectoracula today at 2:40 PM
Impressive. I guess this isn't only the renderer made to use CSS but also a full recreation of the engine and logic right? My guess is because a bunch of things do not behave like the original game, e.g. some buttons need to be shot instead of touched to activate, some secret doors open by touching them instead of being shot, etc.
jojogeo today at 1:53 PM
This is the first thing I've seen on the intertubes for a /long/ time which genuinely makes me smile, thank you op.
Checked out https://cssdoom.wtf/ and loved it too, both are far lighter than current affairs. \o/
glerk today at 6:12 PM
Wow this is really awesome. Really really smooth. It's insane how after 25 years or so my muscle memory is still intact.
elinear today at 6:20 PM
I noticed my cursor was continuously sliding upward first in Neal.fun's latest canvas multiplayer game and I experienced it here as well. Anyone else see this behavior?
And maybe a skill issue but I was unable to jump out of the slime...
remix2000 today at 12:26 PM
It seems like this CSS Quake needs JS to run…
xyproto today at 6:16 PM
Has science gone too far?
divan today at 12:47 PM
As someone who passionately and ardiently hates prolifiration of this set of _hacks on top of hacks_ called CSS (and CSS/JS/HTML aka Web-stack), I must say this is good and valid use case for CSS. :)
jacobgold today at 3:53 PM
No light theme though?
edwinjm today at 12:20 PM
Is this a rip from
https://github.com/NielsLeenheer/cssDOOM
aggregator-ios today at 3:48 PM
Wow, this is impressive. 60FPS, MacBook Air M1. I was instantly hooked and so much nostalgia.
crimsonnoodle58 today at 2:37 PM
Amazing and impressive use of CSS. But at the same time, makes me appreciate what feat Carmack achieved 30 years ago on early Pentiums.
gpderetta today at 12:17 PM
Nice, but the view keeps clipping out to far ahead of the map (but the character seems to still be in its original position as I can die from monsters). It snaps back in place when I shoot.
edit: both on chromium and firefox, desktop linux.
boredemployee today at 3:40 PM
I still play quake (world) to this day. I just can't quit it.
sgt today at 1:02 PM
Very cool. I wonder what the limitations are? I see the dog I shot is floating in the air. Is that maybe a CSS thing or is it fixable?
rvba today at 5:33 PM
After leaving the first area to the bridge... was the sky really so close to the ground in the original game, or the old monitors made it look differently?
Also nice achievement...!
stoobs today at 12:27 PM
Seems like you get stuck on corners and it really doesn't like running up/down slopes, neat though.
ChrisArchitect today at 1:28 PM
Show HN: from the dev (who's also in here, maybe a title update) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571117
criley2 today at 12:21 PM
Really cool experiment. A lot of jank. It would sometimes rubber band me back, movement was grid aligned in a way that made accessing the secret room challenging, and the whole tab unexpectedly crashed with no error. 5 star would play again
jdw64 today at 2:33 PM
I wish I could use CSS this well too
Vaslo today at 2:59 PM
But can it play Crysis?
iandanforth today at 2:24 PM
Crazy, such memories. Thanks!
Snoopfrogg today at 2:19 PM
This is dope.
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ronbenton today at 3:50 PM
Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should
kiyeonjeon today at 12:54 PM
how long does it take to develop this game?
alexb_ today at 1:40 PM
Doesn't work at all for me. I keep jumping around and clipping through objects, can't even leave the first room without being stuck in the doorway to the elevator.
zuzululu today at 3:39 PM
this is crazy i didn't know css could do this
xenophonf today at 12:08 PM
Every time I click in the window, the menu disappears. I tried both Firefox and Chrome.
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buffer_overlord today at 11:01 AM
is there no sound?
AndorinaAI today at 3:38 PM
lol that's crazy. Good job.
ikari_pl today at 1:10 PM
Wow, this will be a great project for the forever-upcoming VRML /s
formit34 today at 3:27 PM
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thenthenthen today at 12:00 PM
Wow
cynicalsecurity today at 2:18 PM
If this is what CSS has become, it means at some point its development went the wrong way.