Q1K3: A JavaScript Homage to Quake in Just 13KB

Here is a very popular entrant to the latest JS13KGames contest that ended this week. This Quake clone is amazing given the JavaScript limitations, and takes me right back to 1996 when I installed it off a magazine cover disc (when the demo even then was 10 megabytes).

The game comes from Dominic Szablewski (@phoboslab) and it’s playable in the browser. I have yet to explore the source and see how the map parser works.

Play here: https://phoboslab.org/q1k3/

Controls

• Movement: WASD or Arrow Keys
• Attack: Left Mouse Button
• Jump: Space or Right Mouse Button
• Switch Weapon: Q/E or Mousewheel

Features

• 2 Levels
• 5 Types of enemies
• 3 Weapons
• 30 different textures
• Music from Andy Lösch: no-fate
• Dynamic lighting
• Doors(!)
• Somewhat robust collision detection, even for fast moving objects
• Enemy AI with line of sight checks. No pathfinding, but still does a reasonable job following the player
• “Spacial” Audio (Stero separation and falloff by distance)
• Maps build with TrenchBroom
• A map compiler written in C (used during build)

Libs used

• Tiny Texture Tumbler for texture generation
• A minified fork of Sonant-X for sounds and music
• UglifyJS3 to minify the source
• Roadroller for further source compression

License

MIT Licensed

Please be aware that this projects makes use of Sonant-X (albeit heavily modified) which is published under the zlib license.

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