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Re: Equinox.space

#21
Looks amazing, great work.

One suggestion: add the option to invert the touch camera controls. It feels weird to rotate the world rather than the camera in a first person game, and I'm constantly rotating in the opposite direction than intended.

Re: Equinox.space

#22
post #19

This is amazing! The visual style is stunning. This actually comes very close to a style of game I've wanted to exist for a long time. The premise being this: You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Making sacrifices in power and computing ability to resolve problems…

Just had a few seconds, A/D is strafing as I'd expect

I just opened it again to make sure I wasn't imaginging it. Oddly enough, A works to strafe left for me, but D doesn't work to strafe right. I'm using Firefox 121.0.

Edit: ignore me! It's one of my plugins!

Re: Equinox.space

#23
post #11

At breakfast so I can't play right now, but those are some buttery-smooth animations on a new Android running Firefox. Nice work.

The only thing I'm seeing is a spinning globe on FF for Android. Smooth, but I guess I'm missing something...

I had to switch to Edge to get it to work.

Can't find that damned access token though.

Re: Equinox.space

#24
post #20

A finely crafted piece of art. Out of curiosity, do you plan to make this project open source? I'd be curious to learn about some the technical details.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. We have no plans for open sourcing it at the moment. We'll tweet more details on how we made it, soon-ish.

Re: Equinox.space

#25
post #2

Author here. Happy to answer any questions! Some background info on the project: https://littleworkshop.fr/projects/equinox/

Looks awesome, nice work. I have an unrelated question, on little workshop's website I can see a pétanque game that I couldn't find online. Is there a way to play this game or was it available only during an event?

Re: Equinox.space

#26
post #2

Author here. Happy to answer any questions! Some background info on the project: https://littleworkshop.fr/projects/equinox/

Looks awesome, nice work. I have an unrelated question, on little workshop's website I can see a pétanque game that I couldn't find online. Is there a way to play this game or was it available only during an event?

Thank you. The petanque game was only available for an event and not publicly anyway, only for the client company's employees.

Re: Equinox.space

#29

This is amazing! The visual style is stunning. This actually comes very close to a style of game I've wanted to exist for a long time. The premise being this: You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Making sacrifices in power and computing ability to resolve problems…

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I like your idea a lot, I would definitely play this.

Re: Equinox.space

#30

Looks amazing, great work. One suggestion: add the option to invert the touch camera controls. It feels weird to rotate the world rather than the camera in a first person game, and I'm constantly rotating in the opposite direction than intended.

Thank you! This is a feature we are planning to add in the near future. We used the same controls as Google Maps street view but perhaps for a game it can feel a bit weird.
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