Pearl Boy WebGL Demo • Hacker News Board

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#31

Post by dannysatan » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:30 AM UTC

works nicely on Nexus 4 in chrome :)

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#32

Post by shdon » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

On both Firefox and Chrome on Mac OS X (10.6.8), the water itself flickers quite badly, despite a smooth framerate.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#33

Post by kevingadd » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:55 AM UTC

Incredibly flickery, and the camera and player character frequently clip through the terrain. Nice animations and music though.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#34

Post by jplur » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:57 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)?

"Don't Starve" uses webGL, but is packaged as a native app.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#35

Post by dtf » Thu, May 23, 2013, 11:58 AM UTC

drewcrawford wrote: post #16

apunic wrote: post #6

Butter smooth and so atmospheric graphics, especially the rowing part

I see a lot of jitter on a very fast Mac. (Safari 6.0.4). Somebody who understands Web GL tell me -- developer's fault or browser's fault? It looks a little like numerical instability to me rather than a framerate issue per se, but I'm no 3D expert. http://jsbench.s3.amazonaws.com/jitter.m4v

What's it like on Chrome? Sometimes these things can be an issue with the GC.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#36

Post by pvnick » Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:05 PM UTC

To the complainers and criticizers here: shut up, this is great.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#37

Post by shocks » Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:12 PM UTC

shdon wrote: post #32

On both Firefox and Chrome on Mac OS X (10.6.8), the water itself flickers quite badly, despite a smooth framerate.

What versions? No problems for me. Firefox v24 and Chrome 29.0.1514.0 canary.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#38

Post by obviouslygreen » Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:12 PM UTC

This is the first WebGL demo I've seen on HN (or anywhere else, but I don't exactly go looking for them) that not only works, but works very well, in Chromium on Ubuntu.

Granted, I'm on 11.10, so perhaps my browser is a bit out of date... still, though, it's kind of nice to see what all the fuss is about. The game played very smoothly for me.

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#39

Post by jstanley » Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:13 PM UTC

obviouslygreen wrote: post #38

This is the first WebGL demo I've seen on HN (or anywhere else, but I don't exactly go looking for them) that not only works, but works very well, in Chromium on Ubuntu. Granted, I'm on 11.10, so perhaps my browser is a bit out of date... still, though, it's kind of nice to see what all the fuss is about. The game played very smoothly for me.

I'm Chromium 25 on Ubuntu, and I get "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"

Re: Pearl Boy WebGL Demo

#40

Post by shocks » Thu, May 23, 2013, 12:15 PM UTC

Smooth as silk, Firefox v24 (Nightly). I'm seeing approx 60FPS with no visible CPU/GPU load. Wonderful! :D