I looove this. I agree with the other commenters that this has a special feeling. And that the future for web games is bright. (For as long as Google is spearheading features with Chrome.)

I guarantee this game wasn't built with Unity: 1) Unity bad for building WebGL games. It does multiple conversions to make a WebGL build. Unity offers live editing in its application, but that doesn't apply to web; whereas modern threejs/babylonjs systems offer hot reloads. 2) And Unity is just unpleasant and bloated generally, for the last few years.

Plug for my game[0] if someone wants to see another WebGL experiment (that I devoted 10 years to...better not to ask lol). PS - WebGL supports WebXR, I've been in my world in VR!

0: earth.suncapped.com

My Intel i7-4790K is able to run this at 1080p and 30 fps (specifically 60 with drops to 30), on a build of Chromium that has hardware acceleration disabled.

I don't know if this is thanks to the speed of the app or Chromium's software renderer or just (semi-)modern CPUs, but I am super impressed. I had no idea you could do something like this without a GPU!

Edit: Whoops, I lied! I knew something had to be wrong here, so I checked. GPU Compositing is disabled. However, chrome://gpu reads "WebGL2: Hardware accelerated but at reduced performance" (whatever that means).

When I fully disable hardware acceleration, performance dips to something in the range of 1 fps. So, basically what you'd expect, and a lot less interesting!

> threejs, gsap, svelte and houdini mostly @vlucendo

https://twitter.com/vlucendo/status/1615099156451758082

Looks better than Meta's metaverse.

I love the color palette and music, really relaxing and it was a nice surprise to see it is multiplayer

Works really well on Firefox for Android too!

Insanely cool demo. I’m amazed I can open this and it run at 60fps within a ~~second~~ on my iPhone. Crazy the power that I have with it, when it spends most of its time in my pocket or playing music.

I wish we could show some of the early computer engineers some of this kind of thing.

Love how smooth this is, even on a phone! Really well done, not just from a technical point of view, but aesthetically as well.

As I ran through the trees, with the sunlight changing, it brought back some little flashbacks of me doing exactly that when I was that height! Very cool!

That we could only communicate with each other by excitedly jumping around - and still managed to explore together - reminded me of childhood memories playing with other kids in Sweden as a tourist who didn't speak their language.

After 15 minutes of trying I managed to reach the roof of the house you can climb, and managed to take a cool screenshot :) https://imgur.com/Vq8i8Yz

Underrated thing that I haven't seen mentioned is how great the gameplay is, I was able to play without a mouse using only arrows and space bar, and the camera never felt clunky, which is rare for a 3d game. Haven't tried on mobile though

I saw a distant figure running straight towards me through the woods and thought this might be one of those secret horror games, until I realized it was multiplayer. :P

Very soothing somehow. It is interesting to see other players around as well. I wish I could send twitter-like shout messages.

I found the sloth secret literally by mistake, that one was pretty difficult

Has the seeds of a place that I'd like to keep visiting. I've already returned twice. First time I visited, I started posting here interesting things I found. But then realized these are secrets that visitors should stumble upon on their own so I deleted those comments.

Grow this into a more interesting place and many will come and visit. Or buy beachfront.

Can anyone recommend some chill games like this one, seems like an ok game for a kid to play. I remember the adventure game from the 90s where I was playing a little dog.

This is clearly much more impressive technically since it runs seamlessly on my browser, but visually and tonally it reminds me of a peaceful game called Alba that I played recently.

This is beautiful, and I think I made a friend in there. Amazing that this works on mobile (safari). Any notes on how it was made? Unity?

Love this.

Reminds me of "Short Trip" https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

HN Discussion from 2017 - posted as "Scenic Tram Ride" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324954

Oh my, WebGL has come a long way since the late '90s

I think I mean VRML but you know that don't you, you old farts you

Opening this in Brave on an iPad immediately crashed and rebooted the device. I don't think that has ever happened to it.

Really nice.

Find it interesting this was posted on HN 4 days ago with no comments now it's top at time of writing. I guess talks to merit of allowing reposts as I would have missed this.

Very beautiful art style (that matches the evocative title) and works wonderfully on my potato of a phone.

Please make something out if this .

I'm amazed how well it works on mobile. So smooth!

This has a very similar feel to games from thatgamecompany* who made Journey and Flower.

Love it!

* - https://thatgamecompany.com/

Very nicely done. I really like the stylized graphics and performance seems pretty good.

Secret hints:

1. Animal on roof

2. Animal on tree

3. Large object in trees

4. Beach goer

5. Small wooden fence room

Wow that's great. Nice color palette. Ran on Android Chrome

Really lovely. Reminds me of the Studio Ghibli films.

It’s very cool.

However, it crashed my iPad Safari, the first time I ran it (worked the second time, though).

I was so hoping when I hopped from the railing by the cats to the roof I found a secret :(

> Seems like WebGL2 is not supported by you browser Please update it to access the experience.

This.. is incorrect. If I go to chrome://gpu (I'm using Chrome on Windows!) it says "WebGL2: Hardware accelerated". I have an RTX 3060. There is no reason this shouldn't work.

There's no error in the console for me to go off of, and the source code is packed/obfuscated, so I can't tell what the problem is. I can't tell if it's pre-emptively refusing to run because I'm not on a whitelist, or running into some sort of error.

This is great - so simple but I played for awhile. Love the Straw Hat

I was just checking this on my PH-1 from 2017 and it played very well. I was running around for a bit before I realized how amazing that was.

Ran it right from HN

I wonder.

Since this runs in the browser, does it mean that we could dynamically use different assets based on device and bandwidth?

Or start with lower res assets and progressively get better ones, like jpeg progressive downloads?

This was pretty nice. Went into it blindly, figured it out, then helped someone else find a few things. Felt kinda like a kid for a few minutes.

This runs pretty well on iOS, and looks amazing.

Just one bug I found: after running it for a few minutes, the sound started to distort and eventually all sound came out as static.

Other than that, it’s quite amazing, and I look forward to poking around on it again on my computer.

I made friends with someone else who kept circling around. The look of it reminds me of Boku no Natsuyasumi.

I saw another player perhaps (with the same hat and clothes as mine). is this a multiplayer thing?

Firefox developer edition, Linux - I can't give any input. Moving the mouse pointer moves the camera POV slightly, so that it can end up below the ground, but apart from that no keys or clicks are registered.

This is the cutest thing ever

I've managed to get up on the red roof :)

https://imgur.com/a/0uZHhwg

I'm just stuck in the floor on firefox and can't do anything

Really cool experiment. Runs remarkably well on Safari on M2 Air.

Pleasantly surprised how well this runs on my phone.

This is beautiful.

Fun challenge: Get on top of the red roof behind the planters.

Perhaps it's try to recreate this in WebGL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j4gO9sR7zs

This is beautiful!

I wanted to talk with the other kids, I wanted to go over that hill. I wanted to feel the end of the day and the sunset. I feel the sea is somewhere near.

I’d love to learn more about the tooling used to make this.

The world and music are so beautiful, relaxing, inviting to explore at your own pace. I'd be happy to play it as a full fledged game.

Crashed both Safari and Chrome on iPad Pro 3rd gen :(

Yeah it’s great. Mix this kind of thing with the advances in AI and we are seeing the beginning of our next tech bull market.

Super cute.

In my firefox I can only jump once though -_-. Clicking out- and inside again let's me do another hop.

I enjoyed finding the secrets. My gf said “this person gets up” after finding a specific “rocky” secret

Wonderfully rendered, in all senses

Very cool experience!

Firefox. Not sure how to select my audio out device. I think it used the wrong one.

That was a lovely experience, I didn't spend too long find the secrets :)

My iphone 11 runs this super smooth… even the touch ui is good, i love it!

Is the code posted for this?

This is how the new Pokemon games should have looked like :D

I really like the art style!

Is this multiplayer? Or are the other "people" NPCs?

Edit: wow, multiplayer.

wonderful! such elegant simplicity of design and crazy that this can load so fast on a mobile phone browser and is multiplayer too! works flawlessly on firefox on ios Found the ufo :)

The incredible smoothness / high framerate is so soothing :)

this is great

the ability to send a message to other players would awesome

This is magic, and works beautifully on my phone!

What a lovely atmosphere <3 this is beautiful.

This is awesome the graphics are very relaxing

This is delightful. So smooth on ios safari

This is beautiful!

Sprinting is a bit too slow though.

Seriously beautiful, well done.

Runs smoothly on Galaxy S8

Where is the fifth secret?

This feels a lot like Alba

First webgl without lags.

This is impressive!

Beautiful graphics.

Very very cool!

Bravo!!

Runs very nicely on Android Chrome. Also nice controls. Floating joystick and tap anywhere to jump.

And nice art style. It has good vibes for sure.

This is nice vut not impressuve. We have had Quake Live on the browser years ago.