Infinitown

[guigui]

Author here. It's amusing to see this resurfacing today since it was released 7 years ago.

I suppose it's due to the recent launch of our latest WebGL experience: https://equinox.space

It's an immersive space survival experience with interactive storytelling. Hope you like it!

EDIT: HN thread regarding Equinox: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40113013

[FinnKuhn]

For just running in my browser this was very impressive - Kudos to the team behind it :D

[toddmorey]

Equinox is impressive! Just want to say y'all do amazing work. The feel and tone of these experiences is great. Much more than the standard tech demo.

[whamlastxmas]

Hey! Just wanted to say I loved browserquest when it came out, and it was a material influence for me to get into web development. I had a lot of fun tinkering with the code and understanding it

[5-]

very nicely programmed!

this having the somewhat similar style and premise to https://armorgames.com/play/17813/dont-escape-3 , i couldn't help but wait, and wait, for the twist.

i guess that it never came was the twist, in the end...

[vallode]

No humans walking around makes me sad :( A really cool project, albeit worrying that 50% of the real estate of Infinitown is roads only a couple of cars drive on ;) When zoomed in all the way I wish there was some LOD meshing to provide longer view distance, would make it feel much more immersive in that sense.

[Barrin92]

A handmade ever-growing version that has plenty of people in it is this one which I recently stumbled about.

https://floor796.com/

[littlestymaar]

Pretty much like the real world in modern cities then…

[5-]

there was a project[0] that did a similar display over real openstreetmap data, sadly the demo[1] seems to be offline now, but there's a video of it[2].

[0] https://github.com/wrld3d/wrld.js

[1] https://maps.wrld3d.com/

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSOJivvtStc

[sandos]

Wow, I have many osm 3D tools but nothing has come close the pretty-ness of that one!

[sureglymop]

It contains the whole world? Where do the 3d data and meshes come from?

[ultracakebakery]

I remember seeing this years ago. While trying to recreate this I learned so much and had lots of fun. I still love scrolling through the city to this day!

[agluszak]

Interesting that nowadays we think that a prototypical city must have cars, but not necessarily pedestrians and public transport.

[jsnell]

2017? Past discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15795204

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24891059

[RiverRay-]

That’s cool. Do you have the source code? I’ll definitely have to study it.

[prmoustache]

Not a town, a nightmare.

[rpigab]

Half of the blocks should be replaced by parking lots to make it more realistic. Then remove all but one pedestrian crossing per road.

[Woshiwuja]

Typical US city

[c22]

This is cool, but I really wanted to be able to zoom.

[throwaway290]

It is pinchable on mobile (Safari).

[LanternLight83]

Just judging by fan speed on me anchiant Core i3, this out-performs github's sign-up flow by a substantial margin.

[throwaway290]

Cars never turn!

[probably_wrong]

They don't need to: if you keep going straight in an infinite city you'll eventually reach a place that's virtually indistinguishable from the one you intended.

And just wait until you reach the library!

[dontdoxxme]

If you watch for long enough they also sometimes fail to stop. So just like a real city too.

[qalmakka]

On this computer it has pretty bad framerate on Firefox, but it works great on Chrome (Linux)

[Gulthor]

This project makes me want to play SimCity 2000 again. Congrats, nice execution.

[okokwhatever]

Cars crashes everywhere but quite cool!

[amadeuspagel]

These clouds look like flying rocks.

[willbush]

Reminds me of the clouds from Vivarium

[yobert]

Really cool demo!

[igtztorrero]

Love this !

[Zarkonnen]

Adorable!

[thih9]

I’d like to drive one of the cars please. Preferably with heavier traffic, working traffic lights and collision detection.

[addandsubtract]

I was going to suggest locking the camera onto a car to see it travel through the city, but driving it would be even better.