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Show HN: Unreal Engine 4 WASM space game (spacelancers.com)
43 points by astlouis44 on Nov 7, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments
Note that the demo may take up to 30 seconds to load, and initially present a white screen. I can assure you - it's worth the wait!


Stunning visuals - took about 3 minutes to load on my 25mbit line (360MB downloaded assets). Is it possible to use a connected PS5 controller?


Also if it's of interest, our team building a whole platform-as-a-service around WASM/WebGL/WebGPU to enable game developers to distribute their games and 3D applications directly users online, in the browser. Here's a blog post from last year that we did, which contains links to several more demos:

https://theimmersiveweb.com/blog


Thank you! And yes it is possible to use a PS5 controller (or any controller, for that matter) as the browser will automatically detect it, and use the HTML5 Gamepad API.


This is great, it reminds me of the feeling of cruising around in FreeSpace.


Not working, white page


It will loading eventually if you're on desktop. You can also press F12, then select the console tab to see the game data downloading.


It didn't for me: it downloaded 225 MB (915 files), then threw several "RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access" errors. (on Safari 16.5)


Safari on MacOS?




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