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

Amazing demo! This reminded me of the spaceship my friend and I made in the level editor of Duke Nukem 3D. Unfortunately, my legendary map got lost along with my old disk.

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I am very much impressed by this project. The smoothly rendering on the browser, stunning graphics and captivating music create an immersive journey. And I always love to discover some Easter eggs. Bravo!

Thanks hackton. Really appreciate it! While creating Equinox, it frequently felt like we were working on tiny details that hardly anyone would notice. But ultimately I believe that immersion largely relies on the accumulation of all these small additions.

The dial-up modem sound was gold.

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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…

I can recommend Tin Can, which is somewhat similar to what you're talking about.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1315980/Tin_Can/

You maintain an evacuation pod for as long as you can to survive the small journey (I think it can take as much as 30 minutes?) between the ship you're escaping and safety.

It's not perfect but it might scratch your itch.

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Sorry about that. Does it happen also on this three.js example? https://threejs.org/examples/?q=pointerlock#misc_controls_po... You can try to change the controls mode in the in-game menu (ESC key).

The threejs pointer demo works great. Here's what I'm seeing in game: https://i.imgur.com/YX2OqXz.mp4 Not sure if it matters, but I have multiple monitors

it also happens to me, but not as bad as that. I'm on windows 11, rx570 and 3 monitors

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I enjoyed it, but in Safari on iOS there was no sound at any point. I checked my device volume. I toggled the game option for sound on and off. It just occurred to me that it may be because I have my phone ringer set to silent. That is indeed what caused it, which is not great as I don't want notifications to be making noise. It also felt slightly too zoomed in (I even attempted to zoom out using my fingers).

> It just occurred to me that it may be because I have my phone ringer set to silent. That is indeed what caused it, which is not great as I don't want notifications to be making noise. I'm pretty sure that's the way it should be, isn't it? Whenever I want something/anything/everything to not make noise on my phone, I set it to silent. It's been that way since the very first iphone I ever owned (I think it was the 4)…

I can still listen to music and videos, with sound, while the ringer side button is set to off.

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If this is your idea of "isn't that detailed"... please make a full game that isn't that detailed. More detail would actually subtract from the experience. Keep it like this. This feels just right .

Why are so many users gushing over this games 3D environment? It's empty and cel shaded, it's about as normal as normal gets but people are eating it up left right and centre. It reminds me of standard indie games with cel shading.

Because it looks pleasant

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

Could you increase the range for the mouse sensitivity option? I'm finding that even maxing it out results in painfully slow look speed.

On a Mac/Safari, I noticed that looking around while holding the left mouse button down made it normal
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