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So, in a browser, you made something that requires a decent processor to navigate, never mind play? There's actually a delay on the screen where I click "Play". I'm using a three-year-old Chromebook with an ARM processor. This game is 2D with, for some reason, an extraneous 3D interface between me and the gameplay. I have open in another tab a YouTube video of the original Quake. The system requirements according to Gemini are a 486 DX4 100 MHz processor 8MB (not GB) of RAM and a VGA video card. That processor came out in March 1994. Quake required 80 MB (not GB) of hard drive space and a double-speed CD-ROM. But if you wanted to run recommended hardware, a Pentium 75 MHz or 133 MHz and 16 MB (not GB) and a Sound Blaster-compatible sound card were the way to go.

Apparently, my Chromebook with 8 GB of RAM, eMMC storage, and a 2023 Mediatek Kompanio 520 (2 GHz) processor just can't handle the browser version of your game with graphics less challenging than 1993's Myst, which required a 386 DX33, MS-DOS 5.0 and Windows 3,1, double-speed CD-ROM, 4 MB of RAM and 3 MB (yes 3 MB) of hard drive space, and SVGA video card capable of handling 640 by 480 graphics and 256 colours.

Modern game developers are lazy.

I'm going to watch a Myst walthrough or some Quake gameplay and reminisce about a time when games were both exciting and action-packed, not bloated and underwhelming like this one.

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So, under a free game, for which you don't have to pay, you made a comment calling developers lazy because they don't optimize their free indie passion projects. And then you listed a bunch of specs to really hammer it home.

Modern trolls are lazy.

I'm going to watch some satire isekai anime and reminisce about a time when people could write fun negative commentary, not just say they are entitled to only see quality projects on a site where people share their learning journey and games they made with love.

Now I skimmed through your comments. Something something America hard times something something I'm less of an ass than X. But you're just pouring out your frustrations like you've got little respect or self-control. If you would rather not be frustrated by this game, why do you frustrate others? Grow up. You can start by feeling sorry. And don't say smth like "When there are monsters on the loose, I wanna be a monster too!" - not a comeback you think it is.

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I had to look up those system requirements and I typed them in myself instead of copying and pasting them. It took a while to write that comment.

Of course people can do whatever they want. But I'm within my rights to comment critically on a project that was... well... everything I said. It doesn't seem that you ingested anything of substance from what I said and are merely taking offence and hoping to be entertained by critical feedback.

I'm not lazy. You and the developer are so entitled that you think it's just fine to make stuff that only looks nice and requires excessive system resources to run while returning very superficial action or results.

Have you considered that Shell Shockers, an online first-person shooter, is a much more complicated and advanced modern browser game that runs just fine on the same hardware I'm using?

You're just a baby. You've deliberately and stupidly twisted my words so you can play the victim instead of accepting that what I've said has some validity. You're not the first to simply take offence instead of thinking things through and asking if I have a point. I think people much younger than me are lazy in that they want others to be nice to them even when they don't especially deserve it. They think they have the right to live in their own little worlds to the point of refusing to take any responsibility for their lives and happiness. Thus we have all these problems that are going to be so much worse because, like your comment suggests, you want to be given credit for your passion projects without anyone criticizing when those projects, publicly released, don't live up to reasonable expectations and utterly fail to live up to the standards of obsolete software that required 1/1000th the system resources.

"But you're just pouring out your frustrations like you've got little respect or self-control." You have no idea what you're talking about or how... counterproductive it is for people to be so "self-controlled" about problems that shouldn't be tolerated at all. Enjoy and increase in rape, murder, and child molestation because your attitude enables the worst people's sense of privilege, especially if they lack "self-control". Your desire to play victim is not entirely dissimilar from that of the very worst criminals that believe they're acting righteously.

You're thoughtless and a dud. You have no idea how to solve all the world's problems, how obvious it is once you realize it. It's responsibility. And because most people don't want to take any responsibility for anything, especially their own lives and happiness, just wanting to float along, they live weak, unstructured lives no better or worse than victims or their surviving families who get to cry on camera when terrible things happen to them and hurt their feelings. Over and over and over again.

"If you would rather not be frustrated by this game, why do you frustrate others? Grow up." Ha. If you knew how straightforward it was to fix things, if only people did what actually worked for them and made them happy, and then as a form of escape was reminded of how utterly useless people are at getting things right in a browser game, you might want to vent, too. I'm not the one who needs to grow up, you immature, spoiled twit. This game, how terribly it's been created, is like a square sculpture made out of 2 by 4s from Home Depot that blocks the sidewalk and is painted red.

"You can start by feeling sorry." Fuck you. You don't know what it's like to have a guilty conscience because you had a dad like Donald Trump who blamed you for his pathetic insecurities so that you actually started to entertain the possibility that he might have a point and get lost in that then in your misery somehow eventually over decades from youth to your late 40s crawl and stumble your way back to sanity and happiness only to realize along the way that the ostensible sanity of others was wholly dependent on conformity to the point of gross irresponsibility.

"And don't say smth like 'When there are monsters on the loose, I wanna be a monster too!' - not a comeback you think it is." You're a moron. Worse than a moron. You make the case for eugenics. You're what the world gets for trying to cheat natural selection through legislated tolerance and protection of those who can't be trusted to show basic consideration and refuse to fend for themselves.

You're not even worth talking to. You're just disgusting. You may not be a horrible criminal but people like you enable them then cry about it to be dramatic and make tragedy about themselves, like you'd buy a T-shirt about it and mope around.

You have no idea and I'm wasting my time trying to reason with someone who doesn't deserve to be reasoned with, just destroyed like most of the 8 billion people alive taking up space and creating the mess they badly pretend to manage to earn enough to support their pathetic existence. Drop dead, loser.

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The new demo update we just released today includes an update to the game engine, which should improve webgl performance. That being said, webgl has certain bottlenecks due to running in the browser, so for optimal performance we recommend you download the executable Windows build.