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This is an astonishing demo -- and I very nearly missed it, because I thought the scrolly graphic at the top was just a fancy animated header, followed by a bun

by nkoren 13y ago

This is an astonishing demo -- and I very nearly missed it, because I thought the scrolly graphic at the top was just a fancy animated header, followed by a bunch of text that seemed to be refering to something else. I only discovered the full demo when I accidentally scrolled up, and found it lurking there well above the start-point for the page. I can't help but think that a lot of other viewers must be missing it entirely. So a note to web-masters: please put any content you want your users to see below the top of the page, not above it.

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unconed 13y ago
This is intentional. If you visit the bare domain, you get the intro. If you visit an article, you get the article.
devx 13y ago
Yes, I missed it, too. I had to come back the 2nd time to see what everyone is talking about.
mck- 13y ago
Speaking of hidden things, I just discovered you can rotate the blue ribbon art work as well :)
- hk__2 13y ago
  …and you can unlock an achievement by repeatedly scrolling up/down/up/down/up/etc.
mrspeaker 13y ago
I think they intended this (if you don't notice it it just looks like a nice header. If you DO notice it...) Though even once you see it, easy to miss is the "settings" cog in the top right. EGA mode!
- colmvp 13y ago
  Exactly. It's like a cool easter egg.
BarkingOven 13y ago
I stared at it and played around for too long.... Little badge popped up on the bottom of the screen: Achievement Unlocked - All Glory to the Hypnotoad
TranceMan 13y ago
I almost gave up also - until I scrolled down to Turn Right Past The Header - then scrolled back up :) Also reload the page with the javascript console on.
mintplant 13y ago
Make sure to click the "play" button in the header for the full experience.
slacka 13y ago
Yes, the demo was not obvious until I scrolled back to the top. It is beautiful, and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work. After trying it both FF and Chrome, it's frustrating that a 3 year old machine with a decent dedicated Radeon 4670 GPU, can't run such a simple demo at full 60 FPS. As cool as it is, am I the only one that thinks the "web penalty" is ridiculous? From Crysis to StarCraft, I can play most new games no problem, but not a simple web demo like this.
- puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
  That's interesting, I run it on Pentium G860 with Radeon 7770 (so current hardware but pretty low-end) and had butter-smooth 60fps with Firefox 23, Windows 7, CPU usage ~15%, GPU usage ~5%. Perhaps you could check if your hardware acceleration in Firefox is enabled (about:support)? Try webgl.force-enabled in about:config as well.
- X4 13y ago
  Yeah same here: sucking at 6-11FPS.. nuff, going to compile ffx v23
- rorrr2 13y ago
  Runs fine on my 3 year old laptop with a mobile Radeon 5730.
- innguest 13y ago
  What's ridiculous is that we're fawning over something we've always been able to do, just because it's now done over the hundreds of useless layers of indirection that the web imposes. "The computer revolution hasn't happened yet"...
theGimp 13y ago
The thing about acko.net is that's the way it has looked all along. So the rewrite simply added a cool multiplier.

by nkoren 13y ago

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unconed 13y ago

This is intentional. If you visit the bare domain, you get the intro. If you visit an article, you get the article.

devx 13y ago

Yes, I missed it, too. I had to come back the 2nd time to see what everyone is talking about.

mck- 13y ago

Speaking of hidden things, I just discovered you can rotate the blue ribbon art work as well :)

hk__2 13y ago
…and you can unlock an achievement by repeatedly scrolling up/down/up/down/up/etc.

mrspeaker 13y ago

I think they intended this (if you don't notice it it just looks like a nice header. If you DO notice it...) Though even once you see it, easy to miss is the "settings" cog in the top right. EGA mode!

colmvp 13y ago
Exactly. It's like a cool easter egg.

BarkingOven 13y ago

I stared at it and played around for too long.... Little badge popped up on the bottom of the screen: Achievement Unlocked - All Glory to the Hypnotoad

TranceMan 13y ago

I almost gave up also - until I scrolled down to Turn Right Past The Header - then scrolled back up :) Also reload the page with the javascript console on.

mintplant 13y ago

Make sure to click the "play" button in the header for the full experience.

slacka 13y ago

Yes, the demo was not obvious until I scrolled back to the top. It is beautiful, and I'm sure it took a lot of hard work. After trying it both FF and Chrome, it's frustrating that a 3 year old machine with a decent dedicated Radeon 4670 GPU, can't run such a simple demo at full 60 FPS. As cool as it is, am I the only one that thinks the "web penalty" is ridiculous? From Crysis to StarCraft, I can play most new games no problem, but not a simple web demo like this.

puzzlingcaptcha 13y ago
That's interesting, I run it on Pentium G860 with Radeon 7770 (so current hardware but pretty low-end) and had butter-smooth 60fps with Firefox 23, Windows 7, CPU usage ~15%, GPU usage ~5%. Perhaps you could check if your hardware acceleration in Firefox is enabled (about:support)? Try webgl.force-enabled in about:config as well.
X4 13y ago
Yeah same here: sucking at 6-11FPS.. nuff, going to compile ffx v23
rorrr2 13y ago
Runs fine on my 3 year old laptop with a mobile Radeon 5730.
innguest 13y ago
What's ridiculous is that we're fawning over something we've always been able to do, just because it's now done over the hundreds of useless layers of indirection that the web imposes. "The computer revolution hasn't happened yet"...

theGimp 13y ago

The thing about acko.net is that's the way it has looked all along. So the rewrite simply added a cool multiplier.