Quake Advent Calendar 2013

Welcome to a Quake-themed Advent Calendar. On 24 days 24 people will showcase something about Quake. Something old, something new, something obscure, something you should check out. Monitor the list on the frontpage to see new posts every day. This is part 2 for the 7th to 12th December. See Quake Advent Calendar 2013 - Part 1 for the previous posts.

Right from the very dawn of Quake time, there have been some incredibly devoted modders, people like Nezu who mapped out what made Quake tick from the early technical demos. Some people were so keen to start creating maps that they didn't even wait for the editor to come out, and created map files in a text editor instead. As a tribute to their early efforts, I've tried to revive this tradition somewhat with a new twist…

Today's adventure is a return trip to the Chambers of Torment entitled "In Small Packages". It offers a familiar environment with some slightly less familiar inhabitants, and a vague festive theme running through it. To play:

1. Download 12days.sav
2. Put the file in your ID1 directory
3. Launch Quake
4. Enter the command "load 12days" in the console. Don't use "map 12days" as that won't work!

Happy holidays!

WebQuake is a HTML5 port of Quake to Javascript and WebGL by SiPlus. It was first released in February 2013. It is available at https://github.com/SiPlus/WebQuake. You can play Quake online with it at webquake.quaddicted.com. That's a Quake shareware installation so you can play the whole first episode. WebQuake also has a server component in node.js which currently hosts a server at ws://webquake.quaddicted.com:26000. You can join this deathmatch game (at least today). It is running some maps from |Scampie's list but if too many people enter I could load death32c. ;)

Use WASD for moving, the cursor keys for aiming, CTRL for shooting, SPACE for jumping, T for chatting, your skills for fragging.

Play the Quake Shareware singleplayer episode at http://webquake.quaddicted.com/

Play Quake Deathmatch in your browser at http://webquake.quaddicted.com/WebQuake.htm?+connect%20ws://webquake.quaddicted.com:26000!

Please be nice and respectful. Happy fragging!