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Floor796
- AmazingTurtle 11mo agoThats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :) https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732 https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732
- _kush 11mo agoSo fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I've been clicking everywhere and didn't find any
- timenotwasted 11mo agoThe Jaws one is fun too, only reason I found it is because it says click beneath it, https://floor796.com/#b3l3,84,789 https://floor796.com/#b3l3,84,789
- orbital-decay 11mo agoFight Club rules poster: https://floor796.com/#t3r3,776,193 https://floor796.com/#t3r3,776,193
- wartijn_ 11mo agoFrom the FAQ in the "about" section of the website: - You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you. - Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click on the suitcase. - Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to the pirate ship. - Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can be found in various places on the floor. - In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the project statistics: current online, visits by country, number on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc. - One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796. - In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him to add your own phrase to the rotation. - You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink synthesizer. - You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police Station. - Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone. - Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to the Future references. - Click on Naruto near the pirate ship. - There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it links to. - There are also many small interactive elements on the floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture, play a sound or cause some action to occur.
- toledocavani 11mo agoOr on Chuck Norris: https://floor796.com/#t3l1,134,205 https://floor796.com/#t3l1,134,205
- Akronymus 11mo agoOr the black hole https://floor796.com/#t3r3,28,997 https://floor796.com/#t3r3,28,997
- mrlonglong 11mo agoCute. There's that tripedal robot from Interstellar there.
- lossyalgo 11mo agoOr the Ninja Turtle to the left of the black hole.
- xfour 11mo agoWhat did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37 points and no comments. That being said whatever this is… something
- rjh29 11mo agohttps://hn.algolia.com/?query=Floor796&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Floor796&type=story&dateRange=...
- latexr 11mo agoYou clicked on an art project being made as a hobby. There is an “About” link on the top left if you want to know more.
- sph 11mo agoThis is incredible! I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck!
- cmg 11mo agoFrom the FAQ: > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.
- fwip 11mo agoPrevious discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067
- eightturn 11mo agosites like this make the internet a better place.
- jnellis 11mo agoNice, this just crashed my entire desktop.
- throawayonthe 11mo agoimpressive, what's your desktop?
- jnellis 11mo agojust win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox, locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and things went downhill from there.
- justsomehnguy 11mo agoWorks for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG. Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.
- Peteragain 11mo agoI think it will absorb at least as many hours as doom scrolling, and be much better for me.
- jupin 11mo agoI wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's NSFW ;D
- debo_ 11mo agoHopefully your kids aren't working yet, so it's fair game!
- latexr 11mo agoMaybe their kid is called William and they meant it’s Not Safe for Will.
- cyode 11mo agoMega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page (it's a gif but not a gif): > Why 796? > The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif, so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the space station :) > How does animation rendering work? In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is packed into this special format. The browser then loads the desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the common canvas.
- vjay15 11mo agoThe entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be.
- p2detar 11mo agoI think it is “Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall” reference. edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin.
- lossyalgo 11mo agoSingle-clicking is sufficient :) Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned in the FAQ > About section, or just keep clicking until you find something, there are 20+ special actions).
- ForceBru 11mo agoIs it just me or is the phrase "human beings" used more often than simply "humans"? I've just started to notice this: the next word after "human" is very often "beings". Whenever someone wants to emphasize our humanity (as opposed, say, to a horse's horseness), they almost always say "human _beings_" instead of "humans". Somehow "human beings" seems to emphasize the "human spirit/soul".
- Jakob 11mo agoYes. There are lots around; whenever the original word becomes too short for the importance people want to give it. Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -> aujourd’hui (day of today) Keyword: pleonasm
- School-Cotton 11mo agoI'm sure I've even heard French people say "au jour d'aujourd'hui"
- tux1968 11mo agoThanks for sharing this one. There's so many brilliant and funny little vignettes in this piece. I'm amazed at what some people are able to do, so far outside anything I could dream about creating.
- eightturn 11mo agothere's even a HN img reference
- burnt-resistor 11mo agohttps://floor796.com/#t1l5,147,868 https://floor796.com/#t1l5,147,868 I guess that's on a different timeline than the former? S Whisman location. ;)
- arrty88 11mo agoSo cool. Nice to see Walt and Jesse cooking
- scrollop 11mo agoWould be interesting to give all the NPC AI, then control one and see how everything interacts, or get dropped into this in first person and interact with everything/everyone powered by AI.
- bovermyer 11mo agoGiven that this is hand-crafted by a real artist, introducing AI into it would be a betrayal of the entire concept.
- NooneAtAll3 11mo agoyou're thinking of wrong kind of Ai
- bovermyer 11mo agoI don't think I am. The wording of the person's post suggests the use of LLMs, not general AI or another form.
- deadbabe 11mo agoAI != LLM
- justsomehnguy 11mo agoTheme Hospital is a thing.
- c-hendricks 11mo agoNot often you see Lexx references: https://floor796.com/#t0l2,597,381 https://floor796.com/#t0l2,597,381
- lexx 11mo agoIndeed
- burnt-resistor 11mo agoKai strikes again. That series was hilarious to my undergrad self. I think I caught it on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi Channel (SyFy) junior year.
- krelian 11mo agoThis has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.
- vitaflo 11mo agoI thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it’s just someone else who is really good at this stuff. https://www.eboy.com/ https://www.eboy.com/
- geerlingguy 11mo agoSilicon Valley (TV show) had a similar themed intro style
- swah 11mo agoOuch, this now looks dated. Society is in another mood...
- InfiniteLoopGuy 11mo agoTheme Hospital
- pell 11mo agoThat was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game.
- jofzar 11mo agoTo me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing.
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- marcellus23 11mo agoThis reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on. This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon.
- chiantiM 11mo agoOMG... stunning maximalism
- paulbjensen 11mo agoThis is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.
- backtogeek 11mo agoThis sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia. I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.
- smusamashah 11mo agoThe editor that is used to draw these animations https://floor796.com/editor/l0 https://floor796.com/editor/l0 Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him making a drawing start to end. (edit: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ) From FAQs > The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the site itself. Then I started drawing the first characters. I drew slowly at first, as I had to get used to the projection and constantly improve the animation editor. I've been creating the first block for over 8 months. Now I draw 1 block in about 1-1.5 months. Author made everything, including the editor, by himself.
- mapcars 11mo agoThats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.
- mojuba 11mo agoDefinitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.
- cubefox 11mo agoWhy émigré? He is probably Russian.
- PeterHolzwarth 11mo agoWell, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from a country that uses the Cyrillic script.
- horpia 11mo agoAuthor is from Minsk, Belarus. This information is in his profile on Artstation
- kylecazar 11mo agoHaven't found Waldo yet Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun.
- crasshacker 11mo agoIs Waldo really there? Because I've looked everywhere, and at this point I'm a bit concerned that my eyes are going to give out before I'm able to find him. That guy sure is a wily fella.
- kylecazar 11mo agoHe's really there. I was on the verge of giving up myself.
- kylecazar 11mo agoFigured I'd include a spoiler link for Waldo if anyone's tired of looking: https://floor796.com/#t5l1,459,106 https://floor796.com/#t5l1,459,106 He's in the bathroom stall.
- crasshacker 11mo agoI managed to find him without help - I'm stubborn - but man, did it take me a long time to do it. It didn't help that I was constantly being distracted by some new character grabbing my attention. There's just so much here!
- spopejoy 11mo agoHere's a fun one: find AE3803
- kylecazar 11mo agohttps://floor796.com/#t0l2,695,774 https://floor796.com/#t0l2,695,774 Had to look up who that was and then just searched for the red hat.
- buybackoff 11mo agoFor some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what's going on quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level though. I saw Bosch's originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With zoom, the details are overwhelming. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights#/media/File:The_Garden_of_earthly_delights.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights...
- jmkd 11mo agoNote this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts & Culture).
- rishabhaiover 11mo agoI love the fact that Steven Seagal made it.
- Freak_NL 11mo agoThere is now a neon add for some weird place called 'Hacker News'; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you've gone too far.
- lossyalgo 11mo agoFor the lazy: https://floor796.com/#t1l5,168,967 https://floor796.com/#t1l5,168,967
- utopcell 11mo agoIf you're curious: the name alludes to this being the 796th floor of a space station.
- LePetitPrince 11mo ago[dead]
- signorovitch 11mo agoReminds me of xkcd's "Click & Drag" https://xkcd.com/1110/ https://xkcd.com/1110/
- stavros 11mo agoI got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable: https://pine.town https://pine.town Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.
- doublerabbit 11mo agoAlso very cool.
- underlipton 11mo agoWhat did they do to Muzzy?!
- cod1r 11mo agoThis is great and I love it. Very polished work.
- mariopt 11mo agoThe artwork looks amazing, is it AI/ComfyUI?
- saagarjha 11mo agoNo.
- Kiboneu 11mo agothis is where i’d like to chill when they wake me up from the simulation.
- PeterHolzwarth 11mo agoPrior discussions here on HN noted this writeup on how some of it works (in Russian): https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/ https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/
- cantalopes 11mo agoWell, there goes my carrier data plan
- wowczarek 11mo agoI giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving.
- dmead 11mo agoIs this the same author as goontower?
- alexconrad 11mo agoGoofy has a sound clip when you click on it. Are there other ones with sound?
- alexconrad 11mo agoFound another one. Duke Nukem 3D Cocoon with a girl. Good times!
- hermitcrab 11mo agoCan we please have a room where Jake Paul and Tate are getting humbled in a boxing ring for all eternity.
- yieldcrv 11mo agoHow fast this loads is a lost art
- BargirPezza 11mo agoAmazing, real dedication and it looks so good! Have spent some time just wandering around and clicking on different characters I don't recognize. So fun
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- metalman 11mo agothe guy must have started consuming media in the womb and has an amazing ability to capture iconic characters and moments with the smallest possible numbers of pixles, the proof of that is bieng able to identify many familiar characters, but the ones from different cultures register as extras and are devoid of personality, pattern recognition doing it's thing effortlessly. It's very much of our time, and speaks to the need for drama and absurdity, and also the role that AI is bieng pushed to fill, while showing that for true iconic imagery , human biengs still have the edge.
- jimmySixDOF 11mo agoOne of my soft milestone tests for AGI is if this gets reproduced in a World Model with Gaussian Splats or whatever it is by then that lets you do gameplay walkthrough in first player egocentric 3D-6DOF-360 view in XR with some friends till then its just all stochastic parrots on word calculators whats the point
- SilverSlash 11mo agoOne of the coolest things I've seen this year! A true labor of love!
- spaceman_2020 11mo agoThis is one of the best things I’ve ever seen online
- javiramos 11mo agoThis is an internet masterpiece
- cheesepaint 11mo agoAmazing work, but I didn't expect to see Wunschpunsch (https://floor796.com/#b2l2,302,256 https://floor796.com/#b2l2,302,256) or Kommisar Rex (https://floor796.com/#b3r1,163,852 https://floor796.com/#b3r1,163,852) there. Others mentioned Soviet-era characters, which makes me curious about the cultural background of the creator.
- edwardtay 11mo ago[flagged]
- tylervigen 11mo agoMany of these questions are answered in the FAQ on the site. The most important answer is that it’s just one creator as a side project.
- jedberg 11mo agoHacker News shoutout: https://floor796.com/#t1l5,122,735 https://floor796.com/#t1l5,122,735
- maxglute 11mo agoYou can click on characters for context. Was this a feature last year? Would make a great animated wallpaper.