[nbadg]

For those that can't get it to load (it takes a minute, and I noticed my desktop's fan kick it up a notch while things were getting initialized, so... YMMV): this is a portfolio site done via a cozy-gaming-style AWSD game where you drive around in a jeep-like thingamabob. There are some cute easter eggs, including a sort of... shrine to each of the socials, which you can run into with your car and knock over (though the links remain clickable, of course!). It also looks like there's some degree of global state; for example, you can "sacrifice yourself to the gods of chaos" (ie drive into a portal) and a counter on the side of the portal goes up, presumably for everyone (since I certainly didn't drive into it 1700 times myself!). There's a strongly consistent art style, and just generally... seems pretty polished. Or at least, that's what it felt like after 5 minutes of driving around.

All in all I'd say, I'm impressed, and enjoyed it. Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much. It's an extremely-well-executed portfolio site; no more, no less.

[ragazzina]

> Though I think the HN title ("handsdown one of the coolest 3D websites") is maybe a bit much.

How many cooler 3D websites do you know? I personally know less than 10, and only https://messenger.abeto.co/ off the top of my head.

[antonvs]

If you count game demos on the web, then Epic Citadel, based on the port of Unreal Engine to various mobile and web platforms including HTML5/WebGL/asm.js, had a much detailed and more 3D world - it used all 3 dimensions fully, unlike OP which appears to be a flat world that’s quite restricted vertically. That demo first came out about 15 years ago, with the HTML5 version coming out a few years later.

Since then I’ve seen several other sites along similar lines, since Unity released a similar capability, but I haven’t kept track of them. The problem is they’re all essentially games that are more impressive for their look than their functionality, so they tend to have a spike of interest when people first see them and then you never hear of them again. And typically, the tech bitrots and the sites stop working after a while.

[chrismorgan]

Honestly I wouldn’t call that a website. It’s a 3D game that runs on the web.

[ggsp]

Wow. Messenger is beautiful!

[PaulHoule]

I navigated using touch on my iPhone and it felt a lot like playing Genshin Impact

[yieldcrv]

Safari highlighted something and it highlighted the whole screen and I couldnt get it to unselect

[antonvs]

Better collision detection and clipping than Genshin Impact though

[bartread]

It is cool.

I am irked that on desktop it does not work in Firefox, but only in Chrome (and presumably other Chromium based browsers).

I'm not a big fan of Chrome, for a variety of reasons, but principally because I don't trust it and can no longer use a good ad blocker, so I never really enjoy having to fire it up.

[pilaf]

Weird, I had no issues playing it on FF.

[djsavvy]

I played it on Firefox on MacOS! Are you on an old version?

[teekert]

It worked surprisingly well on ddg browser, iOS, iPhone mini 12. So, impressive!

[frizlab]

All browsers on iOS are (still, though sadly not for long…) the same browser. Only the skin changes.

[haritha-j]

not so well on chrome on ihpone xr sadly. But perhaps thats asking too much of a tired 7yr old device.

[BugsJustFindMe]

Is it really "extremely well executed" if it takes so long to load that I've closed the tab before seeing anything because it looks broken?

[satvikpendem]

Yes because games take time to load, they are asset heavy.

[01HNNWZ0MV43FF]

AWSD == WASD?

[pmarreck]

Or WARS, if you're colemak

[miohtama]

Also works on mobile