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Show HN: Album Release “8-bit” Raycaster in JavaScript

22 points by hunterloftis 12y ago

fuzzywalrus 12y ago
Interesting, I managed to jump around and launch myself into the heavens, fumble through a maze which shot me flying to a pyramid... then appeared to glitch as I kept flying into the heavens.
- hunterloftis 12y ago
  Hah nice you got past the maze... the flying bit is actually quite long (you fly for > 1 minute) ... there's a very trippy bit in the flying audio that I wanted to reach, where it mellows out quickly and drops a beat (that's when you also drop...)
- JTxt 12y ago
  I thought that was a glitch too, until the beat dropped. Nice work!
filipncs 12y ago
Very nice. I got to the end (I think? I was send back to a screen with the album title), but only found about half the songs.
- hunterloftis 12y ago
  You did! I figured if someone made it all the way to the pyramid, they deserve to win. If you're a bit OCD as I can be, there's a 'moon door' in the pyramid that lets you drop down and keep searching.
PhrosTT 12y ago
For the record you have to allow fullscreen for anything to happen.... took me a while.
sbarre 12y ago
mouse cursor trapping is glitchy, I can't seem to look around without my view snapping back to the floor.. Chrome on OS X
- Recoil42 12y ago
  Same. And if you escape the mouse, it allows you to look, but gets even more glitchy.
crumpled 12y ago
The button wasn't showing up in Chrome on Windows, but when I moved the tag to just after the </canvas>, gave it a z-index:2 and removed that display:none, I could click it. Then the awesomeness began.
dyarosla 12y ago
I don't know about anyone else- but I got extremely nauseous playing this- physically nauseous, especially in the maze with all those closeup walls. I think a mix of the FOV and graphics caused this. Perhaps also the mix of the bad music. I don't mean to offend the creator, it's just that I don't get this kind of nausea from Minecraft or other FPS's, something is amiss here. EDIT: The small FOV thing is a real issue : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-of-View http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-o...
hopfog 12y ago
Very nice and I love Rustie. Well done! May I ask how you landed this gig?
- hunterloftis 12y ago
  I run playfuljs.com - warp just got in touch to see if I could build something cool for their next album!

22 points by hunterloftis 12y ago

Interesting, I managed to jump around and launch myself into the heavens, fumble through a maze which shot me flying to a pyramid... then appeared to glitch as I kept flying into the heavens.

hunterloftis 12y ago
Hah nice you got past the maze... the flying bit is actually quite long (you fly for > 1 minute) ... there's a very trippy bit in the flying audio that I wanted to reach, where it mellows out quickly and drops a beat (that's when you also drop...)
JTxt 12y ago
I thought that was a glitch too, until the beat dropped. Nice work!

filipncs 12y ago

Very nice. I got to the end (I think? I was send back to a screen with the album title), but only found about half the songs.

hunterloftis 12y ago
You did! I figured if someone made it all the way to the pyramid, they deserve to win. If you're a bit OCD as I can be, there's a 'moon door' in the pyramid that lets you drop down and keep searching.

PhrosTT 12y ago

For the record you have to allow fullscreen for anything to happen.... took me a while.

sbarre 12y ago

mouse cursor trapping is glitchy, I can't seem to look around without my view snapping back to the floor.. Chrome on OS X

Recoil42 12y ago
Same. And if you escape the mouse, it allows you to look, but gets even more glitchy.

crumpled 12y ago

The button wasn't showing up in Chrome on Windows, but when I moved the tag to just after the </canvas>, gave it a z-index:2 and removed that display:none, I could click it. Then the awesomeness began.

dyarosla 12y ago

I don't know about anyone else- but I got extremely nauseous playing this- physically nauseous, especially in the maze with all those closeup walls. I think a mix of the FOV and graphics caused this. Perhaps also the mix of the bad music. I don't mean to offend the creator, it's just that I don't get this kind of nausea from Minecraft or other FPS's, something is amiss here. EDIT: The small FOV thing is a real issue : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-of-View http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-o...

hopfog 12y ago

Very nice and I love Rustie. Well done! May I ask how you landed this gig?

hunterloftis 12y ago
I run playfuljs.com - warp just got in touch to see if I could build something cool for their next album!