Quake II in HTML 5

Why should you get excited about HTML5? Because it lets you run Quake II in your browser without any plug-ins.

The video above, which will work in any HTML 5 compatible browser shows just what is possible.

For those really having a geeky moment, in the port, they use WebGL, the Canvas API, HTML 5 elements, the local storage API, and WebSockets to demonstrate the possibilities of pure web applications in modern browsers such as Safari and Chrome.

[toaster]

Impressive! Tellin you folks, HTML 5 is the future.

[Darkfocus]

hope it's just his computers specs causing the poor framerate though because if games run like that in a browser its kind of useless.

[Ocelot525]

relax, html5 is still in development, the framerate will improve drastically

[Montrealien]

HTML5 is huge...and this reminded me on how awesome this game was.

[Christopher]

HTML5 is huge... but so is the potential for piracy now.

It's not as simple as they make it out to be since they have to do some modifications to the game code.

[leeger]

and we are watching the video on flash. lol

[mrv321]

How long before Firefox support HTML 5?

[Monk3y]

and we will have PS2/Xbox style graphics in browser o_o

[Letros]

http://www.interstellarmari...

[Ocelot525]

that's already possible now

[TheFlyingPenguin]

Legendary game. It was my first game I played online to.

[Redempteur]

me too that was one of the first game i played in LAN when i was still young

[BannedForNineYears]

What's wrong with Flash or Java? :|

[Ocelot525]

java: slow( I know, I'm a java developer)
Flash: flash actionscript isn't the best 3D game developing code

[Pandamobile]

Action script isn't very good for 3d. Flash is a 2D animation program.

[BannedForNineYears]

Java isn't fast?
http://www.pulpgames.net/sc...
There are Java compilers that make Java run faster.
And I've played Doom in Java.
It got taken down though.

[JoePesci]

HTML5 will run natively in your browser, so no need for the annoying flash/JAVA plugins. Most newer browsers (firefox/chrome) already support HTML5, but it's still in development.

[anonymouse111335]

HTML5 Won't be as good as they say it will be, it will replace flash eventually if adobe don't stay on their toes, but as for now they're beggining to co exist and not having both is stupid (I'm looking at you iPad)

I also dislike the idea of playing games in a browser that are online since you would also have to download the levels and map everytime which could end up being quite a bit of bandwidth

[Redempteur]

this obviously not for little internet connexions

but it's still impreesive if you wish to set a LAN up .

i do want to be able to quake 2 quickly with my co workers

[anonymouse111335]

I wasn't thinking so much of speed but in many other countries (besides america) they have data transfer caps and that may run it up very quickly

[Redempteur]

true
but it's still impressive if you considers LANs and the fact that these caps only exist because full speed internet is an issue ( that tend to slowly disapear with the times )

[CARRIERHASARRIVED]

I had a blast with Quake 3 Live. Really fun.

Quake 2 has me even more pumped though. Here's hoping they keep the original's Sonic Mayhem soundtrack. That made up for like 51% of the awsomeness of the game.

[Fragger2k8]

While the idea of this is awesome, it just doesn't make all that much sense right now. It takes more from your system to run a game in a browser than it would just to launch it from your desktop.

Until browsers start taking little to nothing at all to run, a game is just best played from its own launcher.

But damn, seeing this video really makes me want to get back into Quake II again. =P