Gorillas in a web browser

Richard Russell recently ported my old (2012) game ‘Gorillas’, written BBC BASIC for Windows, to his multi-platform BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0 and the WebAssembly-based inline-browser version of BBC BASIC for SDL 2.0.

Here is a video of Gorillas being played (by me) in Google’s Chrome browser on a Core-i7-based Win10 desktop PC:

https://youtu.be/hkbij6q4FgM

(Please watch in 720p if you can.)

Wonderful isn’t it — I mean, how a heavily graphical BBC BASIC program runs so well in a web browser? I think what Richard has achieved here is bloody fantastic.

You can try this browser-based Gorillas game yourself by clicking the following link (needs a fast system, and may not work on some browser/OS combinations):

http://tinyurl.com/bbcgorillas

David.
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I think what Richard has achieved here is bloody fantastic.

As I’ve said elsewhere, you deserve much of the credit for writing such a well-structured and clearly-documented program in the first place. Converting it really was a pleasure, and actually wasn’t a lot of work at all (I had it mostly done in less than a day).

One never knows how well a conversion such as this is going to run, but I was pleasantly surprised (especially that it even runs at close to full frame rate in Chrome for Android).