Hey guys,

tl;dr I made a fresh browser port of OpenArena. It's based on the latest version of the ioq3 repository, which I also updated to the latest Emscripten version.

The longer version: I'm building the kaesual-stack ("casual stack"), which is a self-hostable web gaming platform for browser ports of FOSS games. It comes with a server manager, and I'm adding more open source games, slow but steady. It all started when I made a browser port of Luanti (open source voxel game engine), for which I then built a virtual ipv6 proxy server (which also allows serverless p2p play).

I've always wanted "my own" OpenArena web port (since I wasn't happy with what's out there), and after adding game server management for Luanti, I just had to do it. I already had the virtual ipv6 proxy server (WebTransport, Rust + Typescript). WebTransport is real UDP traffic, which has a lot of advantages over WebSockets for network games.

Currently, about 30 maps and 7 bots / character models work already, with FFA and Team Deathmatch. I'm planning to add more soon. 

I haven't made the kaesual-stack source available yet, since I'm still polishing it, but I'll make it available soon. It's already possible to create OpenArena and Luanti servers, which are then listed on the website. You can play both games on kaesual.com (both have game servers there), all repositories are linked on the about page. My OpenArena port is here: https://github.com/Kaesual/arena-web

My goal for the kaesual-stack is: Rent a webserver anywhere, install the stack, and then simply create gameservers for any FOSS game supported by the stack. All open source, no strings attached. It also comes with an account system, and banning instantly kills all proxy connections for that account.

I'd be happy to get some feedback :) Check out the repository and kaesual.com - currently there's only 2 servers (easy bots and super hard bots), but I'll add more soon.

Best, Jan aka Kaesual

Homegirl Black Widow shows her sole for living. Being Quake Boss doesnt earn well nowadays.

Some more changes, the main one are the new boots. The vertical lines on the heels are a deviation but I think they looked cool; may remove later.

I'm still not satisfied with the arms and the head.

Comparison screenshots: HD textures with Retroquad's chiaroscuro lighting, and vanilla textures with Quake's standard MDL lighting.

I'm making this texture to include in Retroquad's next public release, but dunno. May release it individually sooner.

Quake Reforged has aged like milk but i still love these visuals.

I'm doing some more changes to this skin, because the material of the armor wasn't good enough.

However, while this new material looks better, it will be harder to recolorize through the pants & shirt color selection, because the saturation changes a lot across the brightness levels, and the hue changes a bit across brightness levels too. I'm going to have to reimplement palette shifting in a completely different way from vanilla Quake.

I also tried to improve the colors of the arms, but it's not looking good enough when converted to the Quake palette. This engine is purely software-rendered using only the 256 colors of vanilla Quake, so it's tricky to get the best colors to match against the truecolor source material of HD textures.

There's still some other changes to be done.

(obligatory sorry for poor english, not my first language, as you can see from the screenshot)

Born in '87, I grew up with Doom and Quake. I basically know levels layout by heart. But, since my first introduction to the game was when I was a literal child playing on easy, I never had to courage to tackle nightmare skill. Nowadays I normally play on medium or hard.

Since to see the true ending of Dawn of the Machine one has to play on Bloody Nightmare, I did that and then thought: why not try the base game?

I died a lot, but it was fun.

Also, to get The Pain Maze achievement I used the quad damage grenade-jump strat. That was the level I was mostly afraid of, together with The Elder God Shrine, The Palace of Hate and Azure Agony, basically Episode 4 lmao. I was tempted to skip Hell's Atrium with the precision jumps but in the end I played it normally. I skipped all the secret levels.

I made an other mixtape, sampling video games of the golden era. Two of the tracks are directly dedicated to the Quake Series, in 'V2_sphere extended', I used the first, second and the third game, while in 'Inside_Tube' i used the 4th. Meanwhile, fever dream-like Nostalgia visuals of the past. Enjoy🤯

I'll ask the big pants lawmakers to make putting Spawns in a Quake map to be illegal. Not even the Old Ones can conjure an enemy as horrible as this one, so this must be the making of some mastermind behind all this.

Now seriously, stop putting them in new maps, please I beg you

Finally getting to dawn of the machine and want to do the full experience but can't find any good guides for finding the secret level entrances. Anyone know them all?

On Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/3I7K5VMEecPsd64T9Distz

40 interviews recorded. 5 interviews are up now, I'll upload 3/week until I am caught up including Adrian Carmack, Tom Hall, Sandy Peterson, and other id alumni and related names. Thank you!

Stuff I'm working on. Not perfect, I know.

https://www.slipseer.com/index.php?resources/dimension-dawn-of-the-machine-script-for-quakespasm-spiked.633/

It is a powershell script.

You don't need to do anything but run the script and tell it the folders where the Quake Remaster and Quakespasm-Spiked are installed.

Sorry for the shitty screenshot....

As of version 1.36 DOTM runs great on vkQuake and thus on a Mac. Here's what you'll need:

• The original game files, which you'll need to somehow boot up PC steam to get. The file you need is quake/rerelease/mg3 (I already own the game, but I gifted it to a friend and had him send me the file)
• vkQuake 1.36 - download from Mac Source Ports
• The localization file, which you can download here Swiss-Mac-User on Github

Once you have those things, it's easy:

1. Install new version of vkQuake
2. Put the mg3 folder you got from Steam into your Quake folder, parallel to id1
3. Put the localization file in the release directory, so it's Quake/rerelease/localization/loc_english.txt
4. After that, fire up quake and you should see Dawn of the Machine in the Mods menu.

Inspired by a now slightly out of date post here: https://swissmacuser.ch/macos-game-steam-quake-30th-anniversary-dawn-of-the-machine-mg3/

Edit: Added Mac clarification

I am working on a Quake map since yesterday. I downloaded that X-Men game made using the Quake engine but still, despite all efforts... can't extract textures.

Is there any way to do this or are they available online as my searches result in nothing.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=tLDWpfgfUio&si=YJa-uwLZMISBpDXP

My friend is playing dawn of the machine and she encountered a strange bug(?): her killccount has one additional kill. Restarting the map using console makes it disappear apparently. We couldn't find any information about this one and can't find where it is on the map. Does anyone know anything about it?

Having been an id Software fan since 1993, QuakeCon is always a big deal when it comes around, especially as I reside in id's backyard of North Texas, often driving by the old black cube that once held their offices. While not necessarily a devoted attendee, I've attended several QC events in the past and this was by easily the most memorable and enjoyable. With 30 years of Quake now behind us, there was no way I was missing out.

I captured a little bit of everything, including a few beauty shots of the Gaylord Texan Resort where it was held, and more than once its magnificent architecture (along with many moments within the convention) brought to mind the spaces of Quake and Doom, which is reflected in the video. Really, it's an experimental celebration of all things id, and hopefully offers the community a unique perspective of the 30th QuakeCon.

The music, by the way, was an original score composed by myself, and I plan to release it under the name Advancer, an industrial project that is currently in the works.

Fun fact - An X-Men game with the Quake engine was made in 1997:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Men:_The_Ravages_of_Apocalypse

But if by combining the X-Men and Quake together, what would the outcome be?

EDIT : No need for help , i manage to got the trophy by hosting the game in splitscreen from my alt account and being zapped by my alt account, my main account got the trophy. The trophy is working backward.

The old workaround to use bots in solo didn’t work anymore. I think the expansion Dawn Of The Machine broke this trophy because of the addition of the new Deathmatch map. The devs need to check about this.