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While everyone's loving the bubble physics, I just like the attention to detail where if you put the fan _in front_ of the bubble blower facing away from it, it will still blow bubbles in that direction if the air stream would still be drawn through the blower.
It's a wonderful thing: a toy, not a game. A game has a goal. Here you are free to experiment without being led or nudged. In the world of computer-based entertainment, it is refreshing.
*) Test Drive 3
Is anyone aware of a DOS game named Kernreaktor (nuclear reactor) and knows where to find it? Sonetimes its game type is also called "bubbles".
Such a fun surprise when I realized that the fan does not only push air but pulls air in as well. The bubble wand placed to the left of the fan will still make bubbles out the right hand side. Interestingly it makes bigger bubbles than normal.
You can also rotate the fan...!
what I like about this is that that air is particle system. and so are bubbles are made of elastic strings. in a sense there is no bubbles here, it is interaction of particles, and bubbles and air wind is emergent property
back back to it
.. making bubble, but not quite
.. spinning a bubble
While everyone's loving the bubble physics, I just like the attention to detail where if you put the fan _in front_ of the bubble blower facing away from it, it will still blow bubbles in that direction if the air stream would still be drawn through the blower.
Thought this was using three.js, but they built their own physics engine: https://github.com/saharan/OimoPhysics
This has vibes of the old Web, where amazing and niche things were happening. Apparently that engine is written in something called Haxe and its multi-platform. Sometimes I wonder what I'm missing out by looking at lists curated by points given out by people who come together by hyper specialised interests. Should have heard of it before hearing about the millionth JS framework.
Haxe is interesting. I remember coming across it back in the days of Flash.
They also had a bytecode VM of their own called Neko.
At the time when I heard of it there were three platforms you could target with Haxe: JavaScript, Flash, and Neko.
It’s pretty cool to see that after all these years Haxe is still alive and in use.
It's a wonderful thing: a toy, not a game. A game has a goal. Here you are free to experiment without being led or nudged. In the world of computer-based entertainment, it is refreshing.