Scorched Earth 2000 Resurrected as Browser Game via ChatGPT Port

A JavaScript port of Scorched Earth 2000, the multiplayer artillery game originally built by the KAOS Software Team, has surfaced on the web. Version 1.1 dated May 2026 credits ChatGPT 5.5 with the port itself, while preserving the original credits for project lead Hei C. Ng, development lead Alexander Rasin, and the rest of the team behind the late-90s/early-2000s tribute to Wendell Hicken’s classic DOS Scorched Earth.

The release includes the expected trappings of the original — player statistics, an in-game shop, inventory, multiplayer lobby, and a debug console — running entirely in the browser. It’s a small but telling data point on how LLM-assisted code translation is increasingly being used to revive abandoned or platform-locked games by mechanically converting their source to web-native stacks.