Title: Playing CrossCode within a web browser | |
Author: Solène | |
Date: 09 December 2019 | |
Tags: gaming openbsd openindiana | |
Description: | |
Good news for my gamers readers. It's not really fresh news but it has | |
never | |
been written anywhere. | |
The commercial video game | |
[Crosscode](https://www.gog.com/game/crosscode) is | |
written in HTML5, making it available on every system having chromium | |
or | |
firefox. The limitation is that it may not support gamepad (except if | |
you find | |
a way to make it work). | |
A demo is downloadable at this address | |
https://radicalfishgames.itch.io/crosscode and should work using the | |
following | |
instructions. | |
You need to buy the game to be able to play it, it's not free and not | |
opensource. Once you bought it, the process is easy: | |
1. Download the linux installer from GOG (from steam it may be too) | |
2. Extract the data | |
3. Patch a file if you want to use firefox | |
4. Serve the files through a http server | |
The first step is to buy the game and get the installer. | |
Once you get a file named like "crosscode\_1\_2\_0\_4\_32613.sh", run | |
`unzip` | |
on it, it's a shell script but only a self contained archive that can | |
extract | |
itself using the small shell script at the top. | |
Change directory into `data/noarch/game/assets` and apply this patch, | |
if you | |
don't know how to apply a patch or don't want to, you only need to | |
remove/comment the part you can see in the following patch: | |
--- node-webkit.html.orig Mon Dec 9 17:27:17 2019 | |
+++ node-webkit.html Mon Dec 9 17:27:39 2019 | |
@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@ | |
<script type="text/javascript"> | |
// make sure we don't let node-webkit show it's error page | |
// TODO for release mode, there should be an option to write | |
to a file or something. | |
- window['process'].once('uncaughtException', function() { | |
+/* window['process'].once('uncaughtException', function() { | |
var win = require('nw.gui').Window.get(); | |
if(!(win.isDevToolsOpen && win.isDevToolsOpen())) { | |
win.showDevTools && win.showDevTools(); | |
} | |
- }); | |
+ });*/ | |
if(window.startCrossCode){ | |
Then you need to start a http server in the current path, an easy way | |
to do it | |
is using... php! Because php contains a http server, you can start the | |
server | |
with the following command: | |
$ php -S 127.0.0.1:8080 | |
Now, you can play the game by opening | |
http://localhost:8080/node-webkit.html | |
I really thank Thomas Frohwein aka thfr@ for finding this out! | |
Tested on OpenBSD and OpenIndiana, it works fine on an Intel Core 2 Duo | |
T9400 | |
(CPU from 2008). |