Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL • Hacker News Board

Not for me (android firefox). If webGL uses facilities not available on your GPU, it well doesn't work. That's likely it, and we've just not seeing the error message.

e.g. my phone lacks float textures (i.e, to render-to-texture to output floating point calculations), so this fluid simulation doesn't work http://jamie-wong.com/2016/08/05/webgl-fluid-simulation/ (not a guess; I've been through the source, reimplemented some in java)

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by hyperpallium » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:01 AM UTC

NextHendrix wrote: post #6

I wasted hours on these types of games back in the flash era, people were constantly releasing new ones with more types of sand and various effects and combinations, its a shame that whole segment of internet history was deprecated along with flash, good times.

Well... castle crusher "became" angry birds... so we've got that going for us...

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by hyperpallium » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:02 AM UTC

Is it really a "game" if there's no goal or "win" condition? Or is it a "webtoy" or "simulation" (or... "sandbox". Think it's a sandbox).

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by dleslie » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

hyperpallium wrote: post #15

Is it really a "game" if there's no goal or "win" condition? Or is it a "webtoy" or "simulation" (or... "sandbox". Think it's a sandbox).

SimCity

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by Tade0 » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:03 AM UTC

You can get some interesting effects if you put a grid of one-pixel cloners, make them clone gas and put some lava at the bottom.

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by sj4nz » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:06 AM UTC

Drop oil on lava.

The effect is worth it.

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by jetrink » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:08 AM UTC

Make a lake of oil, set it aflame and then pour water on it. A small amount of water causes the burning oil to flare and spread. A large amount of water extinguishes the fire. Very cool!

Re: Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

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Post by lousken » Mon, Dec 17, 2018, 2:10 AM UTC

Not seeing vaporizing water when lava was put into it was a bit of a bummer, otherwise it's great