Quake ported to 3D CSS (no WebGL)
Details
- External ID
- 48571117
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Quake ported to 3D CSS (no WebGL)
- Website domain
- cssquake.com
- Launched
- June 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 13
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6707650273224044
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Hardware & robotics
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- quake game in 3d css
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Porting the Quake 3D engine to render purely via CSS 3D transforms without WebGL requires esoteric graphics programming and deep low-level engine hacking.
What it would actually take: It requires taking the C source of idTech 2 / Quake engine, compiling it to WebAssembly via Emscripten, and completely replacing the rasterizer/OpenGL subsystem. The custom renderer must project 3D BSP geometry, entity models, and lightmaps into hierarchical DOM elements mutated via CSS `transform: matrix3d(...)` and polygon clip-paths at 60 FPS while minimizing DOM reflows and painter-algorithm depth sorting issues. This requires elite graphics engineering and web platform internals expertise.
Discussion
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #165 of 433 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 226 days after the earliest competitor.
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