Title: Playing CrossCode within a web browser

	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).