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...

This engine is not optimised for performance. It's using CSS, after all.

Yeah this is a case of “not the right tool for the job”.

It is awesome though.

Of course, but you'd think after 30 years the compute power should be enough to overcome any lack of optimization. It's a testament to the engineering that went into the original Quake engine.

Decades of optimizing a toaster to make better toast will not make the toaster any better at making meatloaf

I am on the ground. This is great.

Still, why css is as slow as it is given what tech like imgui can do is a little wild.

For what it's worth it works like smooth butter under Chrome on an M2, on Safari it's clunky and seems to clip alot

Either you had a Voodoo on your P133 or whatever the M1 is doing is having a bad time...

On my 7945HX this is plenty fast.

Wait, did Quack run on Pentium-133? I had a Pentium MMX 233mhz and I always assumed it didn't ran well so I never bother to get it.

Bare minimum for it being playable was a 486DX4 100MHz or similar, but with the floating point Quake really wanted a Pentium

I played it on a Pentium with 60mhz - it was allright

If you had a 3dfx card it would run silky smooth on a Pentium-120 (what I had at the time)! Quake 2 ran pretty well too if I recall.

Quake ran well on my 100Mhz Pentium.

It must have, because that's what I had in 1996 and I played it.

Quake ran on a P75 with 8MB RAM in DOS mode. Not the best but it worked at 320x200.

I think you’re missing the point

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.

Awesome! Harder to exit than vim.

In case you want to view the menu, press Tab. Click outside menu items to resume game.

how did you exit? because nothing seems to be working.

Back button worked for me

I pressed escape, then just closed the tab

I pressed Esc key, click quit. And then closed the browser tab.

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/

It seems like this CSS Quake needs JS to run…

CSS does the rendering, the game logic is TypeScript.

No light theme though?

Wow, this is impressive. 60FPS, MacBook Air M1. I was instantly hooked and so much nostalgia.

Is this a rip from https://github.com/NielsLeenheer/cssDOOM

Separate projects. Niels Leenheer who made CSS Doom has seen Agustin Capeletto's CSS Quake.

https://bsky.app/profile/html5test.com/post/3mok5febchs2g

And I think both have seen these much older handcrafted css3d engines

- https://pantel.is/projects/css3d/ - https://keithclark.co.uk/labs/css-fps/

but they took it to the next level :)

The source appears to be <https://github.com/LayoutitStudio/cssQuake>

Amazing and impressive use of CSS. But at the same time, makes me appreciate what feat Carmack achieved 30 years ago on early Pentiums.

I still play quake (world) to this day. I just can't quit it.

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. :)

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.

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?

.dog { display: float; }

You win! I laughed way too hard at this. Boss man is now giving me the side eye.

Seems like you get stuck on corners and it really doesn't like running up/down slopes, neat though.

Show HN: from the dev (who's also in here, maybe a title update) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48571117

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should

Then Tresspasser CSS next

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trespasser_(video_game

I wish I could use CSS this well too

Don't worry, OP still can't center a div.

I was centering divs just fine, but now they took away Fable and I'm lost.

I think I've finally found something in common between OP and me

But can it play Crysis?

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

Crazy, such memories. Thanks!

This is dope.

how long does it take to develop this game?

this is crazy i didn't know css could do this

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.

have to shoot the elevator buttons in this, in the original you could move into them.

Every time I click in the window, the menu disappears. I tried both Firefox and Chrome.

It still needs JS. It just avoids using canvas and does DOM manipulation + CSS instead.

The game logic here is running in JS. Only the rendering is handled by HTML and CSS. Is it really wrong that you can do this? All it requires is 3D transformation of elements.

lol that's crazy. Good job.

Wow, this will be a great project for the forever-upcoming VRML /s

chrome web store?

is there no sound?

Is there a way to produce sound using CSS?

    @media speech {
        body {
            cue-before: url(/path/to/sound.ogg);
        }
    }

https://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/aural.html

Only screams.

Best. Comment. Ever

You should be able to enable sounds with the M shortcut or through the Options menu.

Wow