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Has anyone considered porting Xonotic to WebAssembly? Judging by the success of projects like D3wasm it seems like it could be a worthwhile endeavor and could probably help the game reach a wider audience. I would be interested in contributing if someone is interested in working on this. Reply

I'm definitely interested in WASI version so that we can redistribute the same binary for all OSes. I hope one day WASI removes the need to ever ship native binaries.

EDIT: Eh, I've tried the browser version. It took it about 9 minutes to download and I has something like 30 fps in game. Unplayable. Reply

I am working on something different but related - porting our gamecode to rust so it can be compiled to WASM and run on a different (technically better) engine. Here's the tracking issue: https://gitlab.com/xonotic/xonotic/issues/244

If you think you're able help porting Xonotic (the engine itself) to WASM, you should probably be able to help add WASM support to daemon (part 2 of the issue). I don't have time to work on it now (busy with part 1) and other devs are busy with other things so we're looking for people to help us. Reply