Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment • Hacker News Board

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by Sateeshm » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:06 AM UTC

honkler wrote: post #54

I saw another player perhaps (with the same hat and clothes as mine). is this a multiplayer thing?

I think it is. I saw 5 people.

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by whatgoodisaroad » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:08 AM UTC

This is clearly much more impressive technically since it runs seamlessly on my browser, but visually and tonally it reminds me of a peaceful game called Alba that I played recently.

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by linsomniac » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:21 AM UTC

c_s_guy wrote: post #35

Secret hints: 1. Animal on roof 2. Animal on tree 3. Large object in trees 4. Beach goer 5. Small wooden fence room

Thanks for the hints, animal on the roof had me stumped.

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by greggman3 » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:23 AM UTC

ElFitz wrote: post #65

I wonder. Since this runs in the browser, does it mean that we could dynamically use different assets based on device and bandwidth? Or start with lower res assets and progressively get better ones, like jpeg progressive downloads?

Of course, why not?

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by intrasight » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:37 AM UTC

Has the seeds of a place that I'd like to keep visiting. I've already returned twice. First time I visited, I started posting here interesting things I found. But then realized these are secrets that visitors should stumble upon on their own so I deleted those comments.

Grow this into a more interesting place and many will come and visit. Or buy beachfront.

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by meling » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:48 AM UTC

Crashed both Safari and Chrome on iPad Pro 3rd gen :(

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by ryandrake » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:54 AM UTC

throw101010 wrote: post #28

I love the color palette and music, really relaxing and it was a nice surprise to see it is multiplayer Works really well on Firefox for Android too!

No sound or music for me on mobile Safari (iPhone) but rendering is smooth.

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by ElFitz » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 5:58 AM UTC

greggman3 wrote: post #74

ElFitz wrote: post #65

I wonder. Since this runs in the browser, does it mean that we could dynamically use different assets based on device and bandwidth? Or start with lower res assets and progressively get better ones, like jpeg progressive downloads?

Of course, why not?

Neat!

I’ve never done any WebGL so far, hence the question. I’m even more interested now.

Thanks!

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by mwidell » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:10 AM UTC

The incredible smoothness / high framerate is so soothing :)

Re: Summer Afternoon – A WebGL Experiment

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Post by ilikehurdles » Sat, Jan 21, 2023, 6:12 AM UTC

Wowfunhappy wrote: post #42

My Intel i7-4790K is able to run this at 1080p and 30 fps (specifically 60 with drops to 30), on a build of Chromium that has hardware acceleration disabled. I don't know if this is thanks to the speed of the app or Chromium's software renderer or just (semi-)modern CPUs, but I am super impressed. I had no idea you could do something like this without a GPU! Edit: Whoops, I lied! I knew something had to be wrong here…

It runs flawlessly smooth on Safari on a MacBook Air with M1!