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238 points solcloud | 4 comments | 22 Oct 24 16:27 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
1. therein ◴[22 Oct 24 17:49 UTC] No.41916788[source]▶
You would think it would run in browser. Why are the clients packaged electron applications?
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2. solcloud ◴[22 Oct 24 18:14 UTC] No.41917051[source]▶
actually game can be run using any modern web browser with websocket (without needing to use electron), I just provide electron as it have better performance (nodejs supports udp so no websocket bridge is needed) and key shortcut like Ctrl-W do not close tab instead you move forward while crouching :)
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3. modeless ◴[22 Oct 24 19:58 UTC] No.41918078[source]▶
Ctrl-W is fixed in fullscreen, and WebRTC DataChannel provides UDP (both client-server and peer-to-peer). Check my port of Quake III: https://github.com/jdarpinian/ioq3, you can test UDP multiplayer and Ctrl-W live in your browser here: https://thelongestyard.link/
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4. solcloud ◴[22 Oct 24 21:05 UTC] No.41918696{3}[source]▶
I am fox on fire so Ctrl-W is tab close for me :) but yeah, there are ways (hacks) to make it run in web browser "natively" but only to some extend, I mean you can for sure rebind ctrl-w and other stuff or use chromium, but for me currently real LAN party is playing on electron :) web browser version is for testing and developing (for me at least)