Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

Post by Keyframe » Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 9:59 PM UTC

franck wrote: post #104

Keyframe wrote: post #69

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thanks for answering! Interesting you used unity for level layout. Interested to hear the advantage here. Considering you already use Blender down the pipe, how come you haven't used Blender for it or any other dcc app lile maya, max, whatever?

The main draw of the Unity Editor for us is how it auto-reloads assets, like 3D models, as soon as the asset file is updated. So the workflow is having your DCC app open in which you model things and export assets from, and Unity Editor to design your level where every model is always up-to-date. This is not possible with Blender because it contains all models inside a single .blend file, so assets must be manually r…

Post by yapyap » Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 10:34 PM UTC

Post by hehehheh » Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 10:42 PM UTC

6figurelenins wrote: post #143

deskr wrote: post #122

Is there a page somewhere that tells me what netlify is on a technical level? All I see it marketing speak and I can't make sense of it.

Turnkey web hosting. Drag and drop your build folder, get a URL. Or point it to your git repo.

Post by vunderba » Fri, Nov 22, 2024, 10:48 PM UTC

pipes wrote: post #183

I can't find anyone else mentioning this here, so interesting fact, marble madness was designed by mark cerny https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marble_Madness https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Cerny Who is better known for designing the PS4 and PS5. Edit: can someone explain what netlify does? I visited the site, and while I appreciate it can be difficult to explain these things in marketing blurb, I really came awa…

Post by Wowfunhappy » Sat, Nov 23, 2024, 12:36 AM UTC

doctorpangloss wrote: post #108

guigui wrote: post #101

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Thanks. The WebGL rendering is based on Three.js. We're using Rapier for the physics simulation, and Howler for the audio. Our game engine is responsible for all the controls and updating things like the camera position (which follows the position of the ball at every frame).

Why did you choose to do things this way instead of using Unity WebGL? It's okay if the reason is, "because we make websites and the programming we know is Javascript" or whatever. It doesn't have to be about some objective comparison, like optimization or whatever, which isn't going to be true or necessarily matter anyway.