I love the art style, and it plays super smoothly on mobile! No tutorial, but the controls are so intuitive that I didn&#x27;t need one (joystick touch control that&#x27;s in almost every 3D mobile game). The sense of exploration and discovery is pretty fun.

Really beautiful! Love the artwork and the fact that this runs so well in the browser. Was surprised to realize it was multiplayer!

It say nothing but boy what a beautiful website

The creator&#x27;s web site says nothing:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;</a>Their Twitter has three posts:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;abeto_co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;abeto_co</a>Three of the people behind it:<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;vlucendo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;vlucendo</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;michaelsungaila" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;michaelsungaila</a><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevincolombin.bandcamp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevincolombin.bandcamp.com&#x2F;</a>

It will be nice to know more about how this was made.

Yeah, I had to end the game due to getting stuck between the fencing on the sea side and the chemical plant columns.

There&#x27;s lots of spots where you can get stuck. Really needs a &quot;reset position&quot; option.

Beautiful.
I got stuck in the corner behind Steve and game over - couldn&#x27;t figure out how to navigate out, just kept triggering his dialog.

The game doesn&#x27;t really explain that too well. You have to go find the packages first before you can deliver it. For example the old lady asks you to deliver an offering at a temple.

If you find a guy in a cave, you&#x27;re on to your first delivery.

I played for a few minutes. I wasn&#x27;t able to deliver packages either.

Some people have an arrow on top of their head, and when you approach them there is a dialog balloon with &quot;...&quot;. If you click on them they give you a task.

I also didn&#x27;t really understand how to do it, but I liked the game, it&#x27;s so beautiful and peaceful, it&#x27;s a shame there&#x27;s no chat and you have to speak through emojis.

I thought it could be operated entirely from the keyboard, thanks for the tip on clicking! lol

You need to click on npc to start conversation, one of them is office worker, he will give you a delivery

It really is lovely. I had the same thought about refining interactions a bit -- I would also suggest Meadow by Might &amp; Delight as an example of nonverbal communication done well.

That&#x27;s why I suggested other means of communication other than chat.

The game is wonderful and I&#x27;m so glad it doesn&#x27;t have chat! My 9yo niece and I played it through side by side and if it had chat or consistent remote player presence that wouldn&#x27;t have been appropriate.

Don’t neglect that 2020+ mobile chips are better at graphics than PlayStation 4.

The curvature makes the world seem big and gives quite beautiful scenic view when you are on the rooftop of a building in the town.

I think it&#x27;s the curvature of the world that&#x27;s making it run so well on mobile. There&#x27;s never to much models on-screen to draw.

If you have a keyboard, then upper keys 1-2...9-0 do all the emojis as hotkeys.  Ex, 9 does the takeout food, which is probably meant to be &quot;busy, eating&quot; or something similar.

You can communicate by sending emojis with the menu in the bottom right.

Reminds me of dancing with random strangers in &quot;Playstaion Home&quot; on the PS3

I had a great time jumping around and some other runners joined me and I realized I wasn&#x27;t the only one playing. We began to communicate via jumping.

If you want to play as the only player, use Safari on the Mac. The downside is, your clothes are constantly changing.I do not play video games, but I played this one through till the end and wish there was more to explore.

&gt; The fluidity on a mobile device? It&#x27;s fantastic.Said more about it here[0] already, but the game works perfectly on a foldable and takes the folding&#x2F;unfolding in stride, without breaking a sweat. You can also see it on desktop by resizing your browser window to change size and aspect ratio (it&#x27;s probably the same code paths handling it anyway).Given how almost all mobile and web games I played manage to get this scenario wrong in some way, I applaud the authors for making all the right choices.--[0] - <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45403407">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45403407</a>

The font is really awful. Misunderstanding aesthetics from difference cultural sources to feed to people who will take them at a surface level, there&#x27;s nothing of substance. It&#x27;s giving [0] and it&#x27;s bad vibes, nothing should aspire to this. It leads me to question every other emotional connection I might otherwise have with the experience.[0] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;jv2yw7uqmu3e1.png" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;i.redd.it&#x2F;jv2yw7uqmu3e1.png</a>

&gt; ....The fluidity on a mobile device? It&#x27;s fantastic...I wasn&#x27;t able to deliver packages but I was too mesmerized to be mad about that. Beautiful game. Kudos.exactly, realy well made!

The font? The art style? The fluidity on a mobile device? It&#x27;s fantastic.I wasn&#x27;t able to deliver packages but I was too mesmerized to be mad about that. Beautiful game. Kudos.Edit: I did figure it out and completed all the deliveries. So many potential. It reminds me a bit of Sky by thatgamecompanyEdit 2: for the author, I noticed several players approached me and tried to communicate. Please explore games like Journey (thatgamecompany) to see different ways people communicate without chatting. People can help each other, veterans can guide newbies all without using words. Every time I met a player in the game back in the days, they sent me a heartfelt message.

Second this. Pretty much standard&#x2F;intuitive controls, it was fun discovering what the game was about while captivated by the beautiful music and graphics.

On the other hand, I&#x27;m so glad it didn&#x27;t. I enjoyed a few minutes of exploration before realizing what I was meant to be doing.

Check out Outer Wilds if you like tiny planets! (Not to be confused with Outer Worlds)

Love the design and concept of a tiny planet - reminds me of Super Mario Galaxy in that way. Definitely needs a tutorial or a short “How to Play” dialog or page.

Absolutely stunning experience. The way the houses rolled over the hill as I walked. Incredible.

Thanks for sharing that information. Fonts were not being rendered without adding an exemption. Instructions for future reference if resist fingerprinting is on: in about:config modify privacy.resistFingerprinting.exemptedDomains and add messenger.abeto.co&#x2F;. Example: .example.invalid,*messenger.abeto.co&#x2F;
Obligatory disclaimer that fingerprinting is then possible for that site and one&#x27;s privacy could be compromised. Use at your own risk and all that.

not likely to be your problem, but if you are using firefox resist fingerprinting, you need to whitelist most webgl apps that use large textures, since resist fingerprinting forces a standard texture size that is a bit on the small side.  or maybe your machine is really old and you&#x27;re hitting same problem for real. the game doesn&#x27;t really detect errors.

Looks like nothing more than an animated GIF here as well.shrug

Stuck at loading screen for a few minutes. Hugged by HN?

Isn&#x27;t this how camera in these games always used to work? You have to nudge your character to control it.

Yeah the camera&#x27;s horrible. I found myself snaking left and right just trying to walk in a straight line.

Agreed with everything said here about the beauty. I found the camera controls pretty clumsy though. I played in portrait, landscape probably would work better.

Threejs is like the jQuery for building 3d stuff. But it&#x27;s not a platform like Unity or Unreal engine. But it doesn&#x27;t look overly complicated.

Having done some non-trivial things with threejs, I&#x27;d guess it&#x27;s basically like this: 3JS is the rendering engine (taking advantage of WebGL); game logic is in Javascript; ktx2 is an OpenGL container holding the world data and other meshes; from looking at the filenames, WASM bits are used for loading the ktx2 data (draco_decoder.wasm).  ogg files are for sound.  The multiple worker files imply that the app is using web workers to run the WASM performantly to load the world.

Definitely Three.js or at least something similarly low-level. I doubt you can get this kind of performance with Godot or Unity on the web.

The NPC at the top of the building sais it&#x27;s three.js

ktx2 = texturesdrc = 3d shapes (I think)ogg = audioAll of these would normally be bundled in the game installer, but are sent down piece by piece over the network in this case.Then there&#x27;s some wasm and js for the game&#x27;s business logic. The browser has WebGL APIs that enable running all of this.I&#x27;m assuming they used a library or engine like Unity, Godot or Three.js that supports WebGL as an execution target.

KTX can just store compressed GPU textures as-is, but in this case they&#x27;re using the Basis Universal codec which is a bit more involved. Basis stores textures in a super-compressed form, which is decompressed at runtime to produce a less compressed (but still compressed!) format that the GPU can work with. The advantage is that it&#x27;s smaller over the wire and one source file can decompress to several different GPU formats depending on what the users hardware supports.

ktx is Khronos Texture a format for storing compressed textures (=image data) so that they can be uploaded to GPU memory without decompressing step inbetweendrc is Draco Compression, it&#x27;s a library from Google to compress mesh data

I&#x27;m curious how you build something like this. I see file types in the network tab which, as a web dev, I&#x27;ve never worked with before. ktx2 and drc extensions, for example. I&#x27;m also seeing some wasm and threejs. Is there an engine that outputs these things or is it more of a manual process to bring everything together?

mind blown.Can I ask the author if AI helped him with this? Is it multiplayer too?I ask as I have been deving a webgl game for a few years

In other words: it&#x27;s the journey not the destination.

So does life. Just jump on in, try your best, make some discoveries, and have fun

Beautiful. Plays super smoothly on Firefox with NoScript, uBlock Origin and many other privacy extensions. But it lacks a player tutorial IMHO.

Meh, that’s too bad, would have been awesome to see a planetoid engine.

Probably shaders. The curvature&#x27;s too extreme, and the way shadows move as you get close to them doesn&#x27;t match physical reality.

Is it truely a tiny planet or just shader effects?

I think people are confused that they have to deliver packages they already possess. Instead the instructions should read…“Explore and Make Deliveries”

There&#x27;s probably a bunch of different rooms&#x2F;shards&#x2F;servers and you get randomly allocated to one when starting

I&#x27;m not sure if they are real people. I started two sessions and I didn&#x27;t see my other self, despite being in the same location. Also, both times, the starting place was the same. If that would be the case for everyone, there would be many people there who just start the game.

Is this multiplayer? There are a lot of delivery people walking and jumping erratically.

Idea for letting the player move the camera alone: Top 1&#x2F;3 portion of the screen is for camera movement alone, bottom 2&#x2F;3 keep as is for player movement

great effort, consistent styling, nice gameplay!huge success as side project and for the CV!

I think walking around and seeing the game is the whole point of the game. Not much traditional &quot;game&quot; in it. It&#x27;s like Myst or Firewatch which are sometimes (derogatorily?) called &quot;walking simulators&quot;

It could use a tutorial but this is probably the first time that I didn&#x27;t care about the actual aim of the game because of how beautifully it looks and sounds. I could just run around in your little world forever and feel nice. It&#x27;s really well done.

Kind of curious about the physics of this; the planet would obviously have to be ridiculously dense, but just how dense?

Awesome game, the graphics especially were nicely made. The cel shading (iirc) went well with the art style.Played through all missions and at the end had enough of the concept but appreciated the AOD. Especially the little bits of the environment, like the sleeping fox in the forest, were nice.

I&#x27;ve played it through, very relaxing and esthetically pleasing

The spherical game environment works really well, would be great if it expand as you play more

Lots of fun! Just the right amount of gameplay.

Oh, this is beautiful. I did a bit of WebGL and I wonder how they achieved fluidity like this.

Just chiming in with more positivity: was pleasantly surprised how fast this loaded and ran on mobile. Impressive work.

The controls are the only gripe I have with this amazing work.If I was in Unity, I would address this issue by manually placing a bunch of virtual cameras in the world and using cinemachine to blend between them. The size of this world is small enough to justify manual placement and configuration of each. You could also just focus on the complex areas and let the default follow cam handle the rest.

..or mouse for camera.But I kind of understand it. I did a somehow similar project before and for people who are not trained in video game style controls it is quite hard to get used to them ad-hoc.Assuming this project is at least partially aimed at art directors, project leads and such aka people who aren&#x27;t necessarily gamers, detached movement&#x2F;camera controls are a bit risky.

This really wants to be controlled by twin thumbsticks.

Loved the artstyle, but controls... uhh... let&#x27;s say they were on par with a bad PC port of Sonic Adventure. I can barely control where I&#x27;m going, because the camera just rotates randomly. Something I&#x27;ll never miss from the old days.

I&#x27;d rather have the choice to control the camera (the &quot;smart&quot; camera could be used only if I don&#x27;t control it), because it didn&#x27;t work well for me.Nice game otherwise.

Modern camera systems are often smart in this way. Zelda Ocarina of Time on the N64 was one of the first (if not the first) that got &quot;out of the way&quot; by itself.

I appreciate what seems like an attempt to make a &quot;smart camera&quot; that gets out of the way of the player and unburdens them from having to control both a player and the perspective of the camera. That burden, of controlling two entities (player and camera) is large for people who are unused to playing video games.Was this dynamic on your radar when building the game and camera system? Would love to hear your thoughts.

I think the content is the animation (and the contact link)

It&#x27;s not obvious how to access any content on that page? The animation is cool though.

You can also interact with the stuff moving around using the mouse pointer.

Also visit their main site: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;</a> . The animation is mind-blowing.

When you finish the game you get the credits for who created it.There&#x27;s also a threejs reference in a hard to reach area.

This is absolutely adorable. I love the art style and the vibe. I love the tiny planet concept. Great work.

haha this is coolimmediately hit a bug where i had like 3 character skins at once though

This is beautiful, kudos. I&#x27;m more than interested to read about the building process of this masterpiece.

This is fantastic.If I may ask, how did you do the environment models? Did you use textures and UV mapping? or just untextured models with a shader for the contours?

Am sitting at a game jam right now and took a break to browse HN. Found this and started playing for a bit. Now everyone is asking about it, this is a really polished and fun WebGL game. Amazing!

It took me longer than I’d care to admit to realize  it was a font of readable text and not just random glyphs.  I like the style of them.

The boss reading the letter even looks like the guy.

I got Hayao Miyazaki vibes about this game. Arigatou.

Some really beautiful style and graphics. Never mind delivery I was just admiring the style.

Took me way to long too realize the other in-world delivery people were other players and not NPCs

I have a cheap android phone that&#x27;s 4 years old. This game is still playable. Very impressive!

I was very surprised that it worked perfectly in my 10-year old notebook. Normally, nothing this fancy is playable in a web browser for me. The CPU was about 20% (I only have two cores, 4 threads).

The “messages” stuff is a bit confusing, but really they’re just simple quests. You don’t start with the mail on you, but all you have to do is wander around and find quest givers who will tell you what to do.

I spent more time enjoying the graphics and style than actually playing. it runs so well on a mobile device, I&#x27;ve never seen something like this.as for the game itself, I couldn&#x27;t understand how to deliver the messages.

I noticed the movement UI style was the same

well spotted! seems to be the case: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vlucendo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1971219342231732516" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;x.com&#x2F;vlucendo&#x2F;status&#x2F;1971219342231732516</a>

The alien sunbathing at the beach is a nice wink.

Love the beach guy makes an appearance in both.

Feels about the same to me, I think the map is just more open on this one so the camera is less likely to be pointed somewhere annoying.

controlling movement is much easier.  Something is wrong with the movement in the OP game, at least on a browers

An interesting contradiction is that, in Summer Afternoon, you are in a wide empty town, but, in Messenger, you&#x27;re stuck in a small planet AND limited vision. You can only see near-by stuffs and never the whole town.The design of the latter allows packing more details in a smaller space. Also, players are forced to face a lot of unexpectedness, as navigation becomes a natural challenge (which isn&#x27;t difficult to overcome, which is exactly the point). It&#x27;s like the blind men and the elephant, and can feel very limited, but you end up using your brain, and, in that process, you fully embrace the world details.

Woah, is this the same author as<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;summer-afternoon.vlucendo.com</a>?

Amazing.Its got a Zelda Wind Walker vibe that I love. It was fun just running around exploring.

He&#x27;s in a cave near the forest. Turn right when you see the tree stump with the owl on it.

How do you solve the second mission (the man that is hiding somewhere)? I&#x27;ve managed to find even the three.js mention, but nothing to start that one.

Beautiful, as others have said.The one thing that transported me out of the game was the arbitrary blocking around the ocean &#x2F; the end of the stream. (I assume those go to the same place, from different sides.)It seems on such a tiny world the water should never be more than waist deep, so why not just let us explore the whole thing. I didn&#x27;t quite feel like I got to go all the way around the tiny world, and being fenced by an invisible barrier broke the fourth wall.

The camera, controls, and difficult to discern invisible walls were frustrating to the point I had to just quit the game, even after completing over half of the deliveries. On Safari on macOS there is also a glitch where the character’s clothes keep changing, and I can’t see any other players there (it was only when I tried it on iOS that I realised this is Journey-like).But the game is beautiful and peaceful and I’m still glad I got to experience it. I’ll definitely share it with some friends. Thank you for making it.

Pretty damn cool experience. Definitely the most polished browser game I&#x27;ve tried. The limited scope really makes it fantastic and since it&#x27;s such a small vertical slice the world feels very full of detail. The art style is fantastic as well.

Decentraleyes extension on Firefox results in garbled text. Not sure why this happens. It is supposed to serve some common assets locally instead of requesting them over the network.

You can, that game is Wind WakerBesides the visual style being very similar, there&#x27;s an island in the game with about the same amount of NPCs, and they all have their own lives and many give you chores like this one.

Damn I&#x27;d love to play a Zelda game with that level of NPC detail and style.

camera control is non existant, you just go and game chooses what you see. let me control the camera please

Yeah, I also got motion sickness from the camera! I managed to complete as I really liked everything else but I&#x27;m still a bit nauseated.

I also got nausea from this game and I&#x27;ve never gotten nausea from a video game before. The style is amazing, but the camera controls need some work. I don&#x27;t know what the camera needs besides a more standard mouse control.

same. sensitivity of the camera is just too high. it handles ok but so much sensitivity creates this motion sickness. had to quit after 30 seconds and I still can’t recover. but beautiful game though!

has a lot of potentialfeedback after 5m* there should be a help section, all i could figure out is how to walk with up&#x2F;left&#x2F;down&#x2F;right, and w&#x2F;a&#x2F;s&#x2F;d. And the mouse. 
* I got nauseous after a bit, not sure if that is everyone or just me but I did have some bad nausea on a ride (teacups) at the local carnival&#x2F;fair a few months ago, and it comes back every now and then. 
* the controls on desktop seem too sensitive. I had to eventually walk with W and then go left and right with the arrow keys, but even then it was too sensitiveI left after 5m because of the nausea.I liked the music and peacefulness.

This is stunning, and I adore it. I had an idea to build a game set on a tiny planet but I never even started, and here you have created something that&#x27;s awe-inspiring. keep it up!

Agreed. Same for movement. It’s a little too hard to run straight sometimes.

would be fixed by adding controls - probably q and e - to turn the camera left and right and pivot the character

Yes. Camera work needs some improvements.

Love all of it except for the camera controls on iOS. Not sure how you could improve them but they need some work. Camera gets too close to the character a lot. Might consider two touch controls that separate movement direction and camera position.

What? On desktop? Found it extremely easy to control...

Beautiful design, but uncontrollable and unplayable. Edit: on a phone I&#x27;m constantly bumping into walls.

Me either XD I keep finding new places I haven&#x27;t explored yet and getting distracted.

It took me a while, but it&#x27;s there. There&#x27;s an owl-looking rock in the side of a mountain. To the right of it you can fall all the way down to the beach with the guy on the lounger directly below (but getting back up is a bit roundabout). Once you find the owl-looking rock you&#x27;re very close to the person at the top where you need to deliver the message.

Finally found it. In the Main Square you go down that side street where the guy is standing next to his scooter. Then you turn left through the gate and there is a little rocky outcropping there where the temple is.

This is the loveliest thing I&#x27;ve ever seen on the web. The feeling of being immediately immersed in a universe. A work of art.

this is the most cute, beautiful shit i&#x27;ve seen all year. i love the fact that there are other players everywhere, since it&#x27;s so convenient to dive into it via browser.

Beautiful. You can just tell when things are made with the core premise of how they wanted someone to FEEL playing it. Not some lore, not some &quot;cool&quot; gameplay ideas they had, not some fancy gfx concept they&#x27;d prototyped. It just feels different when you know it&#x27;s been approached from a completely emotional perspective.

Wow this looks amazing, but the camera made me very nauseous, I had to stop playing.

His ship is the opposite side of the water. It&#x27;s a bit tricky to find :D

Cliff note, take a look way yonder.Developer, my friend, you are the reason I map key bindings in the keyboard.WASD ... esdf for life ... be the center.

You can see it looking out from the cliff next to the red house on the hill. But I couldn’t actually get to the UFO, I tried going all around the other hill it is on top of but I am not sure if it is accessible.Where is the alien?

I haven&#x27;t found any UFOs but I did find an alien

I&#x27;m a recovering completionist. Don&#x27;t do this to me! I&#x27;ve been trying to find a secret area by walking on the pipes but that is probably a red herring. But why is there a gauge there? I also haven&#x27;t found the girl on the roof yet, multi-wall jumping doesn&#x27;t seem to work :)SPOILERS AHEAD (for another game, which you should have played by now, if you enjoy this game, in my opinion) There&#x27;s also a hiss at the industrial site which reminds me of the game Full Throttle where you have to kick the wall at the right time. But that can&#x27;t be a thing, right? But the gauge!

Happy to find out it remembered my progress. And I found the final delivery and completed the game. And yes, I&#x27;m sure the girl on the roof is a &#x27;hidden&#x27; thing. She talks about three.js, game development, and art.

Was having fun. Completed all but the scientist objective as I couldn&#x27;t find the last person. I found what looked to be a hidden location and as the person there said &quot;Hello&quot; it crashed the page. oof.

Haven&#x27;t played Obra Dinn yet (it&#x27;s on my list of games to play together with my wife), but anything by its developer Lucas Pope is a masterpiece. Papers Please, while it infuriated me at times (apparently I suck at following rules and spotting differences) was just amazing. Available on mobile and PC.<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Papers,_Please" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;en.m.wikipedia.org&#x2F;wiki&#x2F;Papers,_Please</a>

Return of the Obra Dinn!<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;653530&#x2F;Return_of_the_Obra_Dinn&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.steampowered.com&#x2F;app&#x2F;653530&#x2F;Return_of_the_Obra...</a>

From qingcharles post earlier, three people with abeto.co (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;abeto.co&#x2F;</a>). <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45397933">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=45397933</a>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;abeto_co" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;abeto_co</a>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;vlucendo" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;vlucendo</a>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;michaelsungaila" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;xcancel.com&#x2F;michaelsungaila</a>&gt; <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevincolombin.bandcamp.com&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;kevincolombin.bandcamp.com&#x2F;</a>

The iOS game Tiny Wings was made by a solo developer (Andreas Illiger). I highly recommend it. It’s over a decade old now, but it just got update this year, and it still stands out in my mind as one of the best mobile games ever made.

There&#x27;s also an article on another game by the same folks that&#x27;s similar (but earlier) which describes some details on building it<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awwwards.com&#x2F;summer-afternoon.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.awwwards.com&#x2F;summer-afternoon.html</a>

This is like a masterclass in game design, mobile UI, wasm, character design, game dialogue and interactive paychogeography. I&#x27;m gonna show this to my kid&#x27;s computer club next week. Really fantastic, bravo. Is this seriously a solo developer project??If anyone knows of similar games &#x2F; apps &#x2F; software tools that I could show as examples of solo developer small scope simple UI games I&#x27;m always trying to find more..

Completed the game, really awesome!!––from San Francisco

Amazing! I&#x27;ve never seen a game with this artstyle, really, really classy!

yes, thanks! i was unsure whether to include it because it looks quite different. but you are right, it has the similar exploratory vibe and is a great game.

If we&#x27;re going off vibes alone, I believe &quot;A Short Hike&quot; would be closer.

obligatory list of similar stuff.- alba: a wildlife adventure. more gameplay but somewhat similar controls&#x2F;feel- a short hike. isometric but similar feel (thanks thrance)- the legend of zelda: the wind waker. haven&#x27;t played, but mentioned in a few other comments- proteus. first person and more subtle gameplayanything else?

I feel like a thief playing this for free. This is leagues better than most mobile &quot;games&quot;, and actually online too!

Very fun! And multiplayer too! Had some fun spamming emojis at other people :)

It still can be. This is a really good use case for electron. Steam doesn&#x27;t care what kind of program it&#x27;s launching.

This should have been a steam game. I played worse games there !

Gorgeous. Would love to know how they managed to create a reliably good-looking outline post processing shader with notches (the sketched look).

@thecupisblue. Amazing work.  Logged in just to tell you this. This has just given me goose bumps and made me excited about the web again. I’ve been struggling to find my groove in the dev world post AI and have been digging back into AR and WebXR just for the fun of it. Thank you for the game and more importantly the renewed inspiration to make something cool!

It&#x27;s really unique and beautiful. I want to see more of this. I grew up with random interactive experiences in Flash, this is far more amazing that those days but we need more of this and less of the form crud crap.

I found movement controls rotated too aggressively on mobile in portrait mode. Switching my phone to landscape orientation made it easier to control, but the url bar was then stuck along the top.

Oh man I love &quot;tiny planets&quot; and anything based on them!

Absolutely masterful. Setting the standard for web based games. Congratulations!

Great game. Had to quit as it&#x27;s giving me motion sickness.

Yes I had to take a break due to the game making me feel off, but then I came back later and managed to finish it

Got a little nauseous playing it on desktop. Needs an FOV slider and maybe the ability to dampen camera movement.

It&#x27;s perfect on the almost square-ish main screen of a foldable.In fact, it&#x27;s the best looking game experience on a foldable I&#x27;ve seen so far (most games are designed for either mobile or tablet form factor, and can&#x27;t quite handle the in-between). And it&#x27;s cool how you can just fold or unfold the device on the fly, and the game just adapts without anything more noticeable than the camera pivoting a bit if needed to keep the character on-screen. No stutter, no half-second pause for UI to realign, not even perspective change.EDIT: I just realized it&#x27;s probably not a mobile-specific thing, and sure enough, on a desktop you can just resize your browser window to see this.

One thing I found is the field of view is much better in landscape orientation on my phone than portrait.  Still a little small but not nearly as bad.

A bit nauseous on mobile here too. I think it was mainly due to low frame rates and the controls not quite doing that I was expecting them to do.

I can echo everyone here in saying the graphics of the game and the execution is fantastic. The keyboard controls on desktop and the thumb control on mobile works great. This got me very excited about the future! Can’t imagine the amount of effort that would have gone in this.One additional input, although I could play it well on the desktop - the mobile gameplay made me a tad nauseous. I am someone prone to nausea in VR too, but I’ve never felt this in any other mobile game before. I think it’s probably the amount of motion (hilly topography) and the very narrow field of view, along with the way the mobile controls behave. This was on iOS Safari btw (iPhone 16 Pro Max).

I know most comments are just saying wow - but wow indeed. Felt like a kid on Newgrounds once more. Blown away

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Loved it.
The art was refreshing and interactions so fluid.

Beautiful. Feels like the Japan of 90s Studio Ghibli movies.

Worked fine for me, even on Linux. Maybe you have some sort of blocker extension?

it&#x27;s not ublock, but it must be some other extension or setting. it works on an empty profile

Same here, in Firefox ESR 140. Could be related to privacy extensions, or the dev is just using some extremely new (or non-standard) API.

i don&#x27;t know if it is a browser issue, but on firefox the text in messages is invisible.

Beautiful. I especially like how *obviously* Japanese the village looks.

Absolutely love this. The art is gorgeous and it runs beautifully on mobile. But the best part is the silent communication with other players—jumping around and using emojis really captures that magical feeling from games like Journey. Brilliant design.

What an inspirational work of art. Thanks for making this and sharing it.I&#x27;ve only played a few minutes (will have to revisit with more time). On first impression, the art style &#x2F; characters &#x2F; dynamics feel like a mix of &quot;Little Kitty, Big City&quot; and &quot;Olli Olli World&quot;. Really great vibes!

This is so neat!  Is there a debug mode where I could just fly around and examine the planet?

Holy crap this game beautiful.  It&#x27;s inspiring, in the way I used to feel when I first loved video games.

A WebGL game where you deliver messages on a tiny planet