Chaos: The Battle of Wizards (Remake)

An attempt at recreating Julian Gollop's seminal classic - Chaos: The Battle of Wizards - with a web mobile phone interface (with a shared main screen - similar to pattern used by jackbox.tv style games)

This Project - Development Links

• make serve_files_local
  • src/test.html Simulate main screen + 3 mobile clients (requires network server running)
  • src/index.html?websocket_url=ws://localhost:9800/ individual screen

Implementation

• Browser Vanilla Javascript
  • No Libraries
  • No Transpilation (minimal build chain)
  • Goal: The entire game should fit in a single index.html.gz gzip'ed file that is <=48kb (the original spectrum game ran in 48k)
• Network
  • Goal: MQTT for network comms
  • Currently using homemade channelServer

Chaos: References

• Original Instructions
  • WorldOfSpectrum: Original Instructions (GamesWorkshop BigBox 1984).txt
  • nvg plain-html
• Disassembly
  • The complete Chaos RAM disassembly 2026 Lewis Lane
    • GitHub
    • Blog
  • The incomplete commented Chaos disassembly
• Gameplay footage
  • YouTube: Chaos： The Battle of Wizards Walkthrough ｜ 1985 ｜ Games Workshop ｜ ZX Spectrum [sh97mNYpsIw]
• Gameplay description/comentary
  • Data Driven Gamer: Game 409: Chaos: The Battle of Wizards 2024
• Remakes
  • Chaos Remakes Wiki
  • lewster32/archaos started 2009(?) Lewis Lane
    • Isometric + (Lewis made a bangin soundtrack! is there anything this dude can't do!?)
    • (Made by the guy that did the recent 2026 disassembly and owns(?) the remake wiki)
  • chaosgroove 2007