r/GoldenEye • u/yuggiyuggiyuggi • 3h ago
Project Midas Browser Port (with online) Progress Teaser
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Hey all!
As someone who grew up on Goldeneye, I've been eagerly waiting for Project Midas to drop.
Firstly - what a great project! Huge congrats to the Midas team, you can tell the love & effort that's been poured into it.
Now it's out and I've had a chance to get my dirty little mitts around the code, I'm deep in the process of porting it to WASM, so playing it is as simple as opening up your browser, bringing along your ROM & away you go.
Since the decomp dropped, one thing I've learned is that the original Goldeneye was not built with online in mind. Anyhoo, as someone who's spent too many years writing code, and is lucky enough to have a few Claude tokens to burn, I'd like to show off where I'm at with an online browser build. Yup - BYO ROM, share a join code & it's Power Weapons Temple time with mates.
I'm intending to keep the gameplay faithful to the original where possible, whilst carving out a little room for more modern features (i.e. basic lobby system & support for up to 8 players if wanted, with extra spawns that come into play for the maps lacking 8 when needed, whilst staying faithful with 4 or less players).
I've still got a little play testing to go & a few more bugs to squash, but thought I'd share where I'm at for thoughts, feedback & soul destroying criticism. Enjoy!