Porting Zelda Classic to the Web

What it does

Nov 27, 2023: Much has changed since this article was published. I've become far more involved with ZC development; the name of the program is now ZQuest Classic; our website is zquestclassic.com ; and the web version discussed in this article is now hosted at web.zquestclassic.com I ported Zelda Classic (a game engine based on the original Zelda) to the web. You can play it here –grab a gamepad if you have one! I've written some background information on Zelda Classic, and chronicled the technical process of porting a large C++ codebase to the web using WebAssembly. Zelda Classic is a 20+ year old game engine originally made to recreate and modify the original Legend of Zelda. The engine…from hoten.cc

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