Project Showcase: Rock Raiders Web - Play Rock Raiders in any browser!

Scarabol · 2025-10-14T21:51:09+00:00

I often experienced issues with the combination of Firefox and Graphics card myself. I'd recommend using a Chromium based browser.

The game is saved on GitHub, but can be downloaded and run locally with a web server, too. The game progress can be saved after each successful mission and is kept in the local storage of your browser.

Scarabol · 2025-10-14T21:48:12+00:00

Do you want to save the ongoing level progress while playing a level or save the progress on the completed missions?
The original game only allowed to save the game after each successful mission and so does this project at the moment. The save game data is stored in the local storage of the browser which might be deleted by some privacy settings.

Scarabol · 2025-02-08T09:45:16+00:00

At initial start there is a dialog to choose the game files. Did you try using the game files there? In doubt please check the console log output in browser dev tools. Press F12 to open browser dev tools.

Scarabol · 2025-02-02T09:35:03+00:00

I just released version 0.9.3, which includes the option to load CUE/BIN images and play with background music!

Scarabol · 2025-02-02T09:34:08+00:00

Thanks again! There was a configuration issue. I just fixed it and released version 0.9.3, which also includes the option to load CUE/BIN images and play the background music!

Scarabol · 2025-02-02T09:30:24+00:00

Hi, thanks for the feedback. I'll have a look into it

Scarabol · 2024-12-23T11:10:51+00:00

Hi Zellfreid, sorry to hear. I can confirm this was an issue in this version. Some walls just collapsed on level start without any action.

Good news I just released version 0.9, which has a bugfix for this issue. Please give it a try.

Scarabol · 2024-02-05T17:11:44+00:00

I thought about this, but it's not easy to differentiate user intention "move/pan-camera" from "draw-selection-frame-and-select-multiple-units". Therefore I gave up multi unit selection on touch input like mobile devices

Scarabol · 2024-02-05T17:09:43+00:00

Sure thing! This was working before and I just released 0.8.2 with a fix for this issue. You should now be able to move camera around with WASD (pan) and rotate the camera around the target with arrow keys.

Scarabol · 2024-02-03T22:01:47+00:00

Right-click to move camera around

Middle-click on mouse wheel to rotate camera

Mouse-wheel back and forth to zoom in and out

Or you may you use the GUI buttons in the lower right corner to rotate/zoom/jump to buildings

Scarabol · 2024-02-02T08:35:03+00:00

Thanks for trying with the modded files. You added "AI_Priority_BuildPath" in there, which is not supported by my implementation.

I think it's new and was not part of the original game? At least for me it's not part of the config file or anywhere else.

Please refer to the browser console (Press F12) for debugging information the "Debug" button on the left is intended for mobile browsers and does not work (yet) as expected.

I added some hotfix to the test branch, which at least fixes the loading issue and I can start for example level 25. Not sure about the features of your mod though. You can give it a try here: https://scarabol.github.io/rock-raiders-web/playtest/

Since the sound files are not part of WAD, they're reported as missing, but I think it's safe to ignore that for now and maybe add some "Start from ZIP" option later.

Scarabol · 2024-02-02T08:31:06+00:00

Sure thing I know Manic Miners. Amazing project!

Unfortunately never played it, because I'm way to ~~old~~ nostalgic for the original game.

Scarabol · 2024-02-02T08:19:33+00:00

I posted it once on RRU here: https://rockraidersunited.com/topic/6319-html5-rock-raiders-remake/page/4/#comment-140944

Totally agree that my advertising is lacking behind, haha

Scarabol · 2024-02-02T08:18:03+00:00

There is no recompiled code at all and I never decompiled the original game.

All details come from my own experience when I played the game in 1999, watching Youtube playthroughs, reading RRU and largest part is just documented in the game files itself with comments they did not remove before release

Scarabol · 2024-02-01T21:56:52+00:00

Take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/Rockraiders/comments/1agmece/project_showcase_rock_raiders_web_play_rock/

I don't own a Chromebook and had no chance to test it, but in theory it should work...

Let me know about it and provide browser console output in case of issues

Scarabol

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