During its QuakeCon 2007 press conference, id Software announced plans to form a second development team tasked with creating Quake Zero, an updated, possibly sugar-free version of Quake 3: Arena. The 'Zero' in the title refers to the game's price tag -- it'll be made available for free (supported by advertising dollars, natch) and playable in web browsers for PC and Mac, reports Shacknews.
Said id Software CEO Todd Hollenshead, "We appreciate what you guys have done over the years in building the popularity of [Quake 3]. "We also like 'free.'" We'll keep you informed as to when you can expect to play Quake Free, er, Zero.
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So, no Wii =(
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My vote is AJAX. They probably used the Wolf5k engine
http://www.wolf5k.com/
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http://thrivecreations.com/Buggy%20tech%20demo.html
thats written in javascript, the terrain mesh is 60,000 triangles and runs at an okay frame rate on new laptops and slightly older desktops, however on much older computers it gets down to 3FPS...which is not good....
i dont know the details of it but theres a way to optimize javascript so it runs half as fast as running c++ natively
if it dosent load you might need the unity webplayer
http://unity3d.com/unitywebplayer.html
so i wouldn't be to shocked if this was in javascript as well, im really glad 3d games in the web browser are starting to grow
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It supports C# and Javascript -scripting- which is a completely different ball game. The plugin/standalone engine isn't built over Javascript.
Don't get me wrong: I'm no Java junkie. For me, it still is too big and clumsy (it's been showing some interesting improvements, though), but it's a well known technology that (supposedly) can be ported to different OSes without much pain.
But then, it's confirmed for PC and Mac. Where's the Linux love? The lack of a Linux port could be a good point for the bet that Id will use something on the lines of Unity.
Well, enough boring techy talk. Bring the browser-based BFGs already!
so thanks for explaining
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http://phosphorgame.com
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Screw you Ogames, Runescape, Adventure Quest, Tactics Arena Online and Robot Rage! PUAHAHAHAHA
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awesome !
this games deserves to be next to minesweeper in the next windows
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if you have access to a mac i highly recommend trying out the demo
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However, I AM really interested in hearing tech details about how they accomplished it. Ported to Java Applet? ActiveX? Flash 3D? DHTML? (Doing it in DHTML would be fukken uber :) )
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