This is so cool, it feels great! The ball has the "feel" of a putty ball, bouncy but not a lot just enough. Probably a lot of thought went into this and it shows.
Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
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#212Earlier quoted context omitted.
Great work, it really captures the feeling of Marble Madness. Its maybe to deep of a thought, but I really fancy the spin of the marble, something that the original was not conveying as fancy as your version does.
Thank you. The physics engine we're using (Rapier) really does most of the work to make the spin of the marble look realistic. But we spent quite some time tweaking the controls to make them as enjoyable as we could.
the "feel" is tremendous, S-tier for real.
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#213yes but do they still bill you 170 000$ even if you have the free service??
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#214I'm one of the developers who worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions. More info on the project here: https://www.littleworkshop.fr/projects/5milliondevs/
Did you employ any specific practices to keep it running at framerate in JS?
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#215This game is way better than it needs to be for a quick burst of advertising. Not only is the implementation fantastic, with perfect controls, but the level design is also great. I really enjoyed the multiple routes and the fact you can skip most of the advertising displays. It seems such a shame that this isn't a full game. Removing the advertising and adding more complex levels with puzzles would make for a perfect…
Check out Ballance:
Re: Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
#216Anyone who wants a full game of this, try Ballance:
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#217Is there a page somewhere that tells me what netlify is on a technical level? All I see it marketing speak and I can't make sense of it.
I think you answered your own question. It looks an awful lot like a platform designed to lure non-technical people in with the promise of a magical, frictionless website building experience, ironically achieved by adding layers of abstraction and complexity into a regular web app.
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#218I'm one of the developers who worked on this project. Happy to answer any questions. More info on the project here: https://www.littleworkshop.fr/projects/5milliondevs/
Congrats on your work! You mentioned "using our custom render pipeline and shaders", can you please elaborate more on that?
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#219Great implementation, very enjoyable. Any chance that you will use this foundation to make an actual game (I mean, challenging, with scores/time/etc., and without the marketing component)? I have always missed a worthy sucessor to Marble Madness. I have tried several partial implementations or demos inspired on it, like this, but never an actual full game with the same philosophy (maybe there's some I'm missing, in w…
Thanks. There's no current plan to turn this into an actual game but I agree it would neat.
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#220Wow, this is nice. I don't know, but is it possible for us to study code for this? I would love to see how all of this is built. I can understand you might have commercial obligation, so hoping Netlify can make this public :)
Thanks! Sorry there's currently no plan to make it open source at the moment.