Playing CrossCode within a web browser

Author: Solène

Date: 09 December 2019

Tags: gaming openbsd openindiana

NILGood news for my gamers readers. It's not really fresh news but it has never

been written anywhere.

The commercial video game [Crosscode](https://www.gog.com/game/crosscode) is

written in HTML5, making it available on every system having chromium or

firefox. The limitation is that it may not support gamepad (except if you find

a way to make it work).

A demo is downloadable at this address

https://radicalfishgames.itch.io/crosscode and should work using the following

instructions.

You need to buy the game to be able to play it, it's not free and not

opensource. Once you bought it, the process is easy:

1. Download the linux installer from GOG (from steam it may be too)

2. Extract the data

3. Patch a file if you want to use firefox

4. Serve the files through a http server

The first step is to buy the game and get the installer.

Once you get a file named like "crosscode\_1\_2\_0\_4\_32613.sh", run `unzip`

on it, it's a shell script but only a self contained archive that can extract

itself using the small shell script at the top.

Change directory into `data/noarch/game/assets` and apply this patch, if you

don't know how to apply a patch or don't want to, you only need to

remove/comment the part you can see in the following patch:

--- node-webkit.html.orig Mon Dec 9 17:27:17 2019

+++ node-webkit.html Mon Dec 9 17:27:39 2019

@@ -51,12 +51,12 @@

<script type="text/javascript">

// make sure we don't let node-webkit show it's error page

// TODO for release mode, there should be an option to write to a file or something.

- window['process'].once('uncaughtException', function() {

+/* window['process'].once('uncaughtException', function() {

var win = require('nw.gui').Window.get();

if(!(win.isDevToolsOpen && win.isDevToolsOpen())) {

win.showDevTools && win.showDevTools();

}

- });

+ });*/

function doStartCrossCodePlz(){

if(window.startCrossCode){

Then you need to start a http server in the current path, an easy way to do it

is using... php! Because php contains a http server, you can start the server

with the following command:

$ php -S 127.0.0.1:8080

Now, you can play the game by opening http://localhost:8080/node-webkit.html

I really thank Thomas Frohwein aka thfr@ for finding this out!

Tested on OpenBSD and OpenIndiana, it works fine on an Intel Core 2 Duo T9400

(CPU from 2008).