Pearl Boy WebGL Demo • Hacker News Board

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by edvinbesic » Thu, May 23, 2013, 9:48 AM UTC

This actually worked great om my BlackBerry Z10. I had no idea it supported WebGL, thought it was going to be a write up along with the demo i could read but was pretty surprised when the demo kicked in.

Graphics look great and everything feels smooth, hope they make a game out of it.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by KMBredt » Thu, May 23, 2013, 9:58 AM UTC

aooeeu wrote: post #8

Not great if your keyboard is in Dvorak :-)

Interestingly, it uses WASD for rowing, but the arrow keys (or the mouse) for diving.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by Wintamute » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:02 AM UTC

AutocorrectThis wrote: post #20

>Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML5 and WebGL. The best thing to do is upgrade to a modern browser that supports all the awesome things the web has to offer. I am on the latest version of Opera which I guess is not a modern browser. Perhaps turning down the condescension a notch and changing that "Upgrade" message to "Best works in Chrome" will be a good move. You're a second class citizen on HN if you use an…

I don't read much/any condescension in that message. Fair enough if you enjoy to use Opera, but why not have Chrome installed on your machine too so you can spin it up and view content like this when needed?

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by shanelja » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:08 AM UTC

maciekp wrote: post #7

Hugeen wrote: post #2

I really enjoy seeing new WebGL games emerge. This one is very fluid and beautiful.

But it's not a game, out of curiosity, are there any good games written in WebGL(because all I see are demos)?

http://www.runescape.com has been rewritten entirely in WebGL, they just released the beta and are upgrading the entire game in the next month or so.

It's pretty big news, as far as I know they are the first major MMO to swap to WebGL. They were using Java and had been building on it for nearly 10 years but they found that WebGL offered better graphics performance and easier programming than it's Java equivalent so decided to switch. It is slower, probably around 10 or 15%, but offset by all the new graphical features, longer draw distances, more vivid colours, etc.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:10 AM UTC

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Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by hiteshtr » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:17 AM UTC

kayoone wrote: post #14

this was on the frontpage already a while ago, cant find the HN discussion link but this was the linked content: http://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2013/04/23/webgl-... Its looks nice and all, but these kind of WebGL demos arent all that impressive anymore now that we have seen things like the unreal engine running in the browser. http://www.unrealengine.com/html5/ There isnt really alot you cannot do with We…

But i find the loading time of unreal engine very slow, their is more to happen

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by pawelwentpawel » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:19 AM UTC

Even though it might have been already showcased some time ago I haven't seen it yet. It's beautiful. I especially like the reflective water. Parallax effect in the diving mode is also a nice touch adding some extra depth.

Have any of you tried running it on iPhone 5? I wonder if there were any performance issues (if it worked at all!;).

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by hiteshtr » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:23 AM UTC

Wintamute wrote: post #23

AutocorrectThis wrote: post #20

>Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML5 and WebGL. The best thing to do is upgrade to a modern browser that supports all the awesome things the web has to offer. I am on the latest version of Opera which I guess is not a modern browser. Perhaps turning down the condescension a notch and changing that "Upgrade" message to "Best works in Chrome" will be a good move. You're a second class citizen on HN if you use an…

I don't read much/any condescension in that message. Fair enough if you enjoy to use Opera, but why not have Chrome installed on your machine too so you can spin it up and view content like this when needed?

Also Mozilla as these two browser are far better than Opera and IE, its good to have multiple browser installed in system for experiments and trial

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by manish_gill » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:30 AM UTC

AutocorrectThis wrote: post #20

>Your browser doesn't seem to support HTML5 and WebGL. The best thing to do is upgrade to a modern browser that supports all the awesome things the web has to offer. I am on the latest version of Opera which I guess is not a modern browser. Perhaps turning down the condescension a notch and changing that "Upgrade" message to "Best works in Chrome" will be a good move. You're a second class citizen on HN if you use an…

Weirdly enough, I'm getting the same message on Chrome Version 27.0.1453.93.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

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Post by hiteshtr » Thu, May 23, 2013, 10:31 AM UTC

pawelwentpawel wrote: post #27

Even though it might have been already showcased some time ago I haven't seen it yet. It's beautiful. I especially like the reflective water. Parallax effect in the diving mode is also a nice touch adding some extra depth. Have any of you tried running it on iPhone 5? I wonder if there were any performance issues (if it worked at all!;).

Another great thing about this demo is the movement of water, it always move in opposite direction of boat's movement which gives the feel that we are sailing in another boat with camera parallel to boy :)