Comment by nbadg

2 months ago

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where you drive around in a jeep-like thingamabob. There are some cute easter eggs, including a sort of... shrine to each of the socials, which you can run into with your car and knock over (though the links remain clickable, of course!). It also looks like there's some degree of global state; for example, you can "sacrifice yourself to the gods of chaos" (ie drive into a portal) and a counter on the side of the portal goes up, presumably for everyone (since I certainly didn't drive into it 1700 times myself!). There's a strongly consistent art style, and just generally... seems pretty polished. Or at least, that's what it felt like after 5 minutes of driving around.

All in all I'd say, I'm impressed, and enjoyed it. Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much. It's an extremely-well-executed portfolio site; no more, no less.

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ragazzina  2 months ago

> Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much.

How many cooler 3D websites do you know? I personally know less than 10, and only https://messenger.abeto.co/ off the top of my head.

  • antonvs  2 months ago

    If you count game demos on the web, then Epic Citadel, based on the port of Unreal Engine to various mobile and web platforms including HTML5/WebGL/asm.js, had a much detailed and more 3D world - it used all 3 dimensions fully, unlike OP which appears to be a flat world that’s quite restricted vertically. That demo first came out about 15 years ago, with the HTML5 version coming out a few years later.

    Since then I’ve seen several other sites along similar lines, since Unity released a similar capability, but I haven’t kept track of them. The problem is they’re all essentially games that are more impressive for their look than their functionality, so they tend to have a spike of interest when people first see them and then you never hear of them again. And typically, the tech bitrots and the sites stop working after a while.

PaulHoule  2 months ago

I navigated using touch on my iPhone and it felt a lot like playing Genshin Impact

bartread  2 months ago

It is cool.

I am irked that on desktop it does not work in Firefox, but only in Chrome (and presumably other Chromium based browsers).

I'm not a big fan of Chrome, for a variety of reasons, but principally because I don't trust it and can no longer use a good ad blocker, so I never really enjoy having to fire it up.

  • pilaf  2 months ago

    Weird, I had no issues playing it on FF.

    • ProllyInfamous  2 months ago

      Plays fine on FF.112

      After watching developer's "making of" video, I went and grabbed my USB gamepad (from twenty years ago) — whenever the gamepad is plugged in, Bruno's gamesite stops responding (until controller is unplugged).

      I would recon if this isn't playing on your end, it has more to do with using uncommon hardware configurations (not necessarily lack of horsepower).

  • djsavvy  2 months ago

    I played it on Firefox on MacOS! Are you on an old version?

    • bartread  2 months ago

      Nope, bang up to date, disabled all extensions - just did all the obvious stuff that can hamper sites from operating.

teekert  2 months ago

It worked surprisingly well on ddg browser, iOS, iPhone mini 12. So, impressive!