Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Q3Edit – Edit and play Quake 3 maps in the browser
I've been building a level editor for Quake 3 that runs entirely in the browser: Radiant-style layout, brush and patch editing, CSG, terrain sculpting, and entity editing. It opens and saves .map file and you can play the maps you build directly in the browser using a webassembly build of ioquake3.
Q3Edit is a browser-based level editor for Quake 3 maps featuring a Radiant-style interface with brush and patch editing, CSG operations, terrain sculpting, and entity editing. Users can open and save .map files, then… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Explore Quake/GoldSrc maps in your browser. Contribute to sbuggay/bspview development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Quake (1996), faithfully ported to dependency-free safe Rust and compiled to WebAssembly — play the shareware episode in your browser.
15d ago · quake-srp.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
2024 · 5-million-devs.netlify.com · its alternatives →
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asciiQuake▲16Play Quake rendered as a live ASCII character grid through GlyphCSS, with no WebGL or canvas renderer.
Sep 2026 · asciiquake.wtf · its alternatives →
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Have fun learning more about the Qt Quick Rendering engine, starting with a ground plane, in this Minecraft-esque 3D block building game.
2021 · kdab.com · its alternatives →
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MeshEdit▲61Model, rig and animate game assets in your browser
Sep 2026 · meshedit.xyz · its alternatives →
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I've posted this game here before, hopefully a repost is fine as the game has changed quite a bit (improved AI, improved mapeditor, much quicker gameplay, etc). Game is based on JavaScript/Canvas and WebSockets. On the browser side the map is pre-rendered (as a background image), just the mobile units/buildings and animations are dynamically rendered. The lobby server is made in node.js, but the game server is C++ for performance reasons (mainly the pathfinding). I found the C++ WebSocket libraries out there to be too difficult to use so I made my own based on the rfc. Overall I…
2022 · battle-of-flags.com · its alternatives →
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Modd.io is a collaborative game editor that runs in browser. It's kind of like Figma for game dev. We made this engine low-code and multiplayer-first, so developeres can quickly prototype casual multiplayer games. I hope some of you guys will find this useful. Would love to hear feedback also. Thank you. Engine Demo: https://www.modd.io
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I've been working on an MMORPG that is now in alpha as a solo developer. Here are the major open source technologies that I use: Blender - 3D modeling software for creating the overall environment and every game object. I've gotten a lot of CC and Public Domain assets from https://poly.pizza GLTF - I export assets from blender to the GLTF asset format JSON - I write a JSON config for every game object that describes things like its name, its interactions, its collisions, etc. Node.js exporter - I iterate over the environment and every asset to create a scene hierarchy. I use…
2024 · alpha.reconquer.online · its alternatives →
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Hey folks, I’ve been working on using control-net to take in a video game level (input as a depth image) and output a beautiful illustration of that level. Play with it here: dimensionhopper.com or read the blog post about what it took to get it to work. Been a super fun project.
2023 · generalrobots.substack.com · its alternatives →
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Blender-style 3D editing in your browser
May 2026 · 3d-editor.com · its alternatives →
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Play a browser Quake port rendered as inspectable HTML and CSS 3D geometry through PolyCSS, with no WebGL or canvas renderer.
Jun 2026 · cssquake.com · its alternatives →
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Tridiv is a web-based editor for creating 3D shapes in CSS
2013 · tridiv.com · its alternatives →
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A liminal brush-based CSG editor and game engine with unified (forward) renderer inspired by Radiant and Worldcraft/Hammer Compact and lightweight (target: Snapdragon 8CX, OpenGL 3.3) Real-time lighting with stencil shadows without the need for pre-baked compilation
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Extracted Maps of the DOS Game Test Drive 3. Contribute to s-macke/Test-Drive-3-Maps development by creating an account on GitHub.
May 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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map33.js is a JavaScript library to build 3D maps. Made by Openbloc with three.js.
2020 · map33.openbloc.com · its alternatives →
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Quake has been ported to the web plenty of times, so that part isn't new. But I experimented with the GitHub Copilot app and Claude Opus 4.8 to take id Software's original source, compiled the software renderer to WebAssembly with Emscripten. The cool part: I added support for procedurally generated levels. So after you clear a level, the slipgate opens and you move onto the next random one... with a new room layout, textures, monster placement, working doors with keys, etc. It's pretty challenging. I also added Soudncloud integration (configurable in Options) so can listen to the new NIN…
Jun 2026 · leereilly.net · its alternatives →
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Craft interactive 3D animations, without code
2016 · 3d-parallax.webydo.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · boydgreenfield.com · its alternatives →
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A framework for 3D geospatial visualization in the browser - UDST/vizicities
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Play OpenArena (Quake 3 clone) in your browser with friends! Free FPS multiplayer, no download required.
2019 · openarena.live · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, Just wanted to show this little 2D game engine that I've been working on for some time (around 2 years on the editor part, longer on some of the components). It's quite full featured but obviously this a project of such magnitude already that the work never really ends. That being said it's definitely already at a point where games can made and published. The editor runs natively on Windows and Linux using Qt5. The games can run on both Win and Linux as well as on WASM with WebGL. Feature wise there's a bunch of the stuff you'd expect. Audio, graphics, scripting,…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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