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24 alternatives to Quake II RTX
A ray-traced remaster of the classic hit game Quake II
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Quake II RTX launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Quake (1996), faithfully ported to dependency-free safe Rust and compiled to WebAssembly — play the shareware episode in your browser.
14d ago · quake-srp.pages.dev · its alternatives →
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Software and hardware projects for fun from a guy who loves retro computing
2019 · internalregister.github.io · its alternatives →
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I ported Quake 1 to the Apple Watch, building on top of existing ports for iOS and Mac. Some features: * uses Quake SW renderer + blitting to WatchKit surface (~60 fps, 640x480, larger res can run on lower framerate, tested up until 1024x768) * touch + gyro + digital crown controls * new AVFoundation audio backend (quake to Watchkit audio buffer copy logic), as Watchkit does not support CoreAudio * high pass audio filter to remove clicking on Watch speaker for some of the low frequency quake .wav samples * some smaller modifications and code updates to glue Quake 1 c code to Objective C and…
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
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PixVerse R2▲381A real-time world model you can explore and change
30d ago · world.pixverse.video · its alternatives →
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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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A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes. - a327ex/SNKRX
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Supercharge gaming with DLSS 4, NVIDIA Studio, and AI
2025 · nvidia.com · its alternatives →
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Quake▲79Lightest virtual 7.1 gaming earbuds with vibration
2018 · kickstarter.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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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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Recently, I managed to recover some of my earliest work from the ZX Spectrum era from an old audio cassette. It is a mini-game, that I created as a teen, called "Atomix," written in BASIC with a mix of Z80 assembly — some of which I coded myself, while other parts were disassembled from existing games. I put the game in an modern emulator and recorded a screencast. See the video in my linkedin post: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7288665...
2025 · its alternatives →
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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.
Jul 2026 · q3edit.com · its alternatives →
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This is a GPU "software" raytracer (i.e. using manual ray-scene intersections and not RTX) written using the WebGPU API that renders glTF scenes. It supports many materials, textures, material & normal mapping, and heavily relies on multiple importance sampling to speed up convergence.
2024 · github.com · its alternatives →
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C++ Path Tracer from scratch with zero third-party libraries. - themartiano/luz
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…
2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →
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PixVerse V4.5▲131Cinematic AI video with pro camera controls & fusion
2025 · app.pixverse.ai · its alternatives →
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I’ve been experimenting with Rust lately and wanted a project that would help me explore some of its lower-level and performance-oriented features. Inspired by Sebastian Lague’s videos, I decided to implement my own ray tracer from scratch. The initial goal was just to render a simple 3D scene in the browser at a reasonable frame rate. It evolved into a small renderer that can: • Run locally or on the web using wgpu and WebAssembly • Perform mesh rendering with a Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) for acceleration • Simulate both direct and indirect illumination for photorealistic results • Be…
Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Get an instant text when PS5/Xbox consoles are back in stock
2021 · mailchi.mp · its alternatives →
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Since this is a major new release (three and a half years in development), I think this should be ok for Show HN. This release has lots of new material, fixes, and updates across the three books in this series. All three books are online and free, with accompanying code available from GitHub. Enjoy!
2024 · raytracing.github.io · its alternatives →
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