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I remember their 'citadel' demo. I recall it disappeared rather quickly. All that seems to have survived is a youtube video of it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2uNDlP4RiE

> The browser is still pretty bad for deploying large applications like a UE5 game

    Please wait, downloading 80gb of content....don't refresh page or clear browser cache...ever
I do appreciate the achievement here, but it's not something I personally would want.



Most of the code isn't source code but assets and those can be streamed.

Realistically even the toughest AAA games can be tuned to few GBs of code and the assets required for the initial area. I remember on UE4 you could compile the entire executable with some small game in waaaay less than a GB without particular difficulty. You can use this approach and stream the rest later.

This is especially doable if you keep the game state and menus/UI in the html + JS and avoid that part of UE entirely, so you just launch whatever is your map and game and those states.


Streaming is much better option, latest hardware instead of 2011 WebGL and 2015 WebGPU, and guarantee it works on the client without having to worry about black listed GPUs and drivers, leaving a empty black box for the user to see.




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