Compiling PGE For Web Browsers!

Now you can take your olc::PixelGameEngine programs, and run them in the browser. Great for jams, great for distribution, even works with mobiles! A huge effort from the OLC community putting this together, so a huge thanks from me to them! Using Emscripten to convert C++ code into Web Assembly (WASM) it is now trivial to transpile your applications to work with performance in browsers. An awesome convergence of technologies.

Yes - I'm aware of occasional audio clipping in this video. I have a wretched sore throat and struggled to find a good balance, so that's just how it is.

[javidx]

Firstly, yes there is occasional audio clipping. As you can probably tell I have a wretched sore throat and finding the right balance was difficult as my voice is disappearing XD. Secondly - how amazing is this??? Massive thanks again to the guys on Discord who put the effort into making this happen. I'm not a web person at all, and without them this would have been beyond me.

[Whateverworksism]

This is amazing! What a wealth of talent and passion the community has shown over the years.

[LundBrandon]

My Data Structures class used pixel game engine for a lot of our assignments. Planning on using this to display my projects for interviews and such! Thank you community!

[MarsCorporations]

This is the best thing in 2021 so far. I programmed a lot of small (sometimes even "big" (well... big for a single person to program)) games (mostly towerdefense) and everything is always for people that have Windows and are willing to start some random .exe. I looked into so many "browser game dev things" over the years, I even started to try out JS or Processing (may god have mercy when I die), but I always missed my good old C++ (it is just better...). And now it is here. This changed everything. Big thanks. You gave me what I was looking for, and I didnt even ask. <3

[backhoff]

Amazing stuff. Congrats to everyone involved. It is indeed a game changer :D

[dondubeau]

I was just trying to figure out how to get emscripten working with pge a few weeks ago. Thanks for this!

[SBH]

Your stuff has been incredibly helpful as a game dev. Thanks for this!

[plueschAMAZONE]

Again a real cool work. No programmingchannel makes me want to lern C++ so hard, like your does.

[MCChubbyUnicorn]

Glad to see that it is in fact possible to make C++ work in browsers. A few years back, I tried, and couldn't even get even a cout to work. It ignored the fact I had the header for it or something. Bow I can try again

[SourceCodeDeleted]

This is indeed game changing.

It is funny how the pixel game engine started as a project and has grown so much.

[DaveChurchill]

Great video! I love using emscripten for my projects. However I think you made a mistake with the aspect ratio when you said "currently it's a 4 by 3 ratio"

According to my mental math, neither 256x240 nor 512x480 are 4:3 aspect ratios (as you mentioned in the video), in fact they are 16:15 aspect ratios.

640x480 or 320x240 would have been 4:3 ratios. Or am I going bonkers? I know that this takes little to nothing away from the video, it just may throw a little confusion to some viewers

[SparxableTunes]

Thank you so much! You've unlocked a new mysterious portal for us all

[billybest]

Super cool! This will make sharing projects easier and even more impressive imo

[vatemsura]

You're a good man. People in Russia watch you and love you.

[htrayford]

So exciting! Congrats to those who contributed.

[wChris_]

you should make a CMake project for Emscripten, so it can be compiled and run basically anywhere
(Visual Studio does support CMake projects!)

[taraxacum]

No more p5 I guess? 😂

This is super awesome!!!

[Enriath]

You mention you don't like Git, and now I'm curious why?

[agemans_stuff]

By looking at your code it seems you have your abbreviated pi wrong (3.1459). It should be more like 3.14159...

[Digidan]

6:03 ahh well thats me buggered then XD