When you think of demakes you probably think of newer games on older hardware. Probably because that is how they occur more often. Another type of demake is made for the same platform just a different graphics style (many remakes offer this option at the flick of a button). What if I told you someone made Quake, but it is only 13 kilobytes in size. For comparison that is about one quarter the size of the original Super Mario Bros on the Nintendo Entertainment System. The kicker is, this version of Quake looks amazing, and everything explodes into gibs everywhere.
Demake of Demakes
To say this demake is impressive is many levels of understatement to say the least. You can play it in your browser as well. I have no idea how the programmer, phoboslab.org, accomplished this. It would be like trying to explain going to the Moon to a cave man that never looked up – impossible for me to understand if someone tried.
Wizardry is all I can say about this level accomplishment.
Everything that made Quake, Quake is here, rooms over rooms (a big deal back in the day), various paths around, enemies everywhere, the dual nail guns, everything.
Graphically Beyond Vanilla Quake
If you played Quake without 3D acceleration, then you got what a lot of us referred to as Vanilla Quake. You probably called it something else in your neck of the woods.
The base game, lower graphics settings, etc. One thing that the base game was lacking, and was pushed hard in 3D graphics cards advertising, was lighting. Fire guns and the immediate area lights up. Throw grenades and the explosion lights up the impact zone with multiple colors.
The base game was not nearly as impressive with lighting.
This demake goes beyond the base game, somewhere closer to the 3D accelerated versions as far as lighting effects. Of course, graphically, this demake is less impressive than the base game. This demake exists in an odd area between 3D accelerated and base game, closer to the former.
Quake Demake is available to play for free in your browser right now.
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