franck

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   by franck 2y ago

   Awesome, congrats on your 2:49 run. Sure, we'll definitely let you know. Probably won't happen but I would love adding a level editor. Thanks!
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   by franck 2y ago

   Wow, learning that people are sharing speedruns on YouTube totally made my day!
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   by franck 2y ago

   Thanks for reporting!
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   by franck 2y ago

   It's wonderful to know that your child enjoyed our little game. Thanks so much for sharing that with us!
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   by franck 2y ago

   Unfortunately, we have no plans to add new controls to the game at this time.
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   by franck 2y ago

   Thanks so much! With a bit of luck and talking to the right people at the right time, we got our start when Mozilla gave us the opportunity to create technical demos for the release of Firefox 4 back in 2010. Among other demos, we created a
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   by franck 2y ago

   Amazing, as the developer of this game, I wasn't even aware that you could make it under 3 minutes!
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   by franck 2y ago

   Thanks! Sorry there's currently no plan to make it open source at the moment.
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   by franck 2y ago

   Thanks. There's no current plan to turn this into an actual game but I agree it would neat.
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    by franck 2y ago

    I should have said that it's not officially supported. For client work, we prefer not to choose an engine that may not work on a few devices and which we have no ability to fix.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Unity WebGL is not supported on mobile and we needed the experience to be playable on both desktop and mobile browsers. However, mobile browsers will be supported with Unity 6 web exports, still experimental currently AFAIK, but that should
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    by franck 2y ago

    Nothing complicated, we simply have initialization code that parses the GLTF scene on startup by iterating over the children of a specific group, and creating Rapier colliders for each of them (Triangle Mesh Colliders to be specific, in ord
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    by franck 2y ago

    The main draw of the Unity Editor for us is how it auto-reloads assets, like 3D models, as soon as the asset file is updated. So the workflow is having your DCC app open in which you model things and export assets from, and Unity Editor to
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    by franck 2y ago

    The glowing line represents a timeline of Netlify's milestones that you have to follow in order to discover their journey. No particular reason for the physics-based gameplay except to have a bit of fun.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thanks and sorry you got stuck, we made our best effort to prevent these situations from happening but apparently they still do.
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    by franck 2y ago

    The rendering engine is using Three.js which is a WebGL library. The physics/collision detection code is using Rapier through a WebAssembly module available on npm [1], which means that it can be used on the web even though it's o
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    by franck 2y ago

    The physics engine we are using is Rapier 3D which does a lot of the heavy lifting, even though we had to tweak a lot the physics properties of the ball and surfaces in order to get something that felt right. For hotspots specifically, we i
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    by franck 2y ago

    Yeah, sometimes the ball does some crazy things due to the way collision detection works. We tried to optimize and avoid most of the issues but it can happen.
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    by franck 2y ago

    There is code in place to respawn the ball if we detect that it's stuck inside a block or wall, which can occur due to frame drops during the physics simulation. I'll try to reproduce this issue. Thanks for reporting it!
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    Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify(5-million-devs.netlify.com)

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    by franck 2y ago

    Thank you for the bug report, I just fixed it.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Yes this is an old project that we did back in 2015, but thank you for the broken link report, I just fixed it. Also, thanks for your feedback (which I agree with!) but we currently have no plans to update it.
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    by franck 2y ago

    The same engine runs on both desktop and mobile, pathfinding performance wasn't an issue on mobile. We knew from the beginning that it was important for mobile controls to be "smart" and to assist the player as much as possib
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    by franck 2y ago

    Oh I loved the Journeyman Project as a kid and I didn't think of it at all when creating Equinox, but thanks to your comment I'm now starting to think it had some unconscious influence!
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thanks a lot for your kind words! Metroid Prime wasn't a direct inspiration but it may certainly have had some influence on us, as we loved playing that game when we were younger.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thanks! About the character height, it's set at 1.6m and all the environment is supposed to be at the right scale, but perhaps we made the doors a bit too short. We tried to convey a bit of claustrophobic feeling, especially in the low
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thanks a lot. I wish there was more too, but we unfortunately had to keep the project's scope under control! Lots of puzzle ideas and content were cut.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thanks. I guess a potential issue would be rendering the outlines because it's implemented with post-processing and I'm not sure how it would look in VR.
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    by franck 2y ago

    Much appreciated, thanks! Releasing a successful game on Steam would be amazing of course but it's not easy, to say the least. I hope we'll manage to do it some day!
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    by franck 2y ago

    Thank you!