Here the Video telling the story behind the port
Holy cow that's incredible. I remember playing this when I was ~6 on Windows 95 and being able to walk around and everything was so cool. Now it runs in the browser.
The decomp approach seems surprisingly effective. I know someone else did this with starcraft to get it to run on ARM and said it was the wrong way to do it although I think he did it all in assembly instead of trying to get something sane out of it.
God I love MattKC and his randomness
Incredible! Was this based off MattKC's decompilation?
this is one of those games that lives in my head. the quirky narrator and the personalities of all the characters felt really unique at the time.
seeing stuff like this, and backyard baseball, again in browser or modern apps just doesn't hit the same though
Who wants to do LEGO racers next?
Oh man, this is great timing – I played the hell out of this game in middle school, and I've recently been investigating either getting it running on modern hardware. I got it installed & launching inside an XP VM, but that is (unsurprisingly) not ideal.
I've been thinking about building a retro gaming PC for these kinds of games, and now I can kick that can a little further down the road.
I haven't been in the time this game was popular, but I cannot deny that making it playable in a web browser is crazy. And to all the people that did play and enjoy it back then, I think they'll have a happy surprise.
I'd love to be able to play Lego Island 2.
How is this legal? Specifically, distributing copyrighted assets and using their name/logo without permission.
It's interesting. Can I add it to my website to showcase it?
This is impressive on so many levels. What an absolute nostaliga trip! Thank you for this.
How is Direct3D retained mode implemented in the browser?
What about Mata Nui?
It hangs after I try to inspect elements...
good.
I remember watching my young nephew play Lego Island and the introductory video where the camera flies around the island is amazing. But then he was totally baffled by the 'main menu' when some excited lego guy babbles instructions at you in flowery hard-to-follow language, and you had to do abtract things like write in a book or drag icons onto the map before you got to do anything fun like racing cars. I think he could have clicked around that screen for hours and never realised he had to drag the people onto the map.
Great game but they wouldn't make it like that now. Its like a grown ups idea of an interface that a young child would like, rather than something actually tested.