A WebGL game engine

[markrickert]

That's a horrible readme.

[eonil]

Agreed.

[kordless]

That's a horrible comment.

[prottmann]

Last update 2 years ago ???

Is it a perfect Engine, that need no support, or did nobody use it.

[jtms]

I am curious why is this engine noteworthy... three.js seems far more mature and advanced than this.

[fritz_vd]

Yes.. That is kind of crazy. Why is it all of a sudden on HN?

[CmonDev]

JS...

[icefox]

Any more details? Pics, docs or blogs describing what it does? Why did the startup fail?

[jheriko]

this looks interesting, but i seem to be missing something... where is the data and toolchain?

I'm really not a fan of code driven 'game engines' I think it misses the point...

also, despite the code making for an interesting read (seeing how someone else approaches this problem) most of the demos don't work for me in chrome.

[nikcub]

demos: http://files.nikcub.com/finalengine/

some work, some don't. i'm fixing them as I go.

[dionyziz]

Here are a couple more demos using the engine that we wrote. Some use a slightly older version of the engine, but they illustrate the things we imagined would be possible. I'm giving links to the actual demos.

Pool of water: http://vl.kamibu.com/cool/water/

Traveling in stone tunnel screen saver: http://vl.kamibu.com/cool/tunnel/

Bone animation (maybe the most impressive of the three): http://petros.kamibu.com/files/bone-animation/

[dionyziz]

Thanks for putting this together! :)

Here's a car driving demo we also left unfinished you might be interested in, written using this same engine: https://github.com/kamibu/kamiburace

[Zisko]

That's awesome! The spaceship especially. I wonder if it's possible to make the turning radius smaller though. Going to poke around. Thanks for doing this!

[eonil]

What's the pros of having Javascript game engine instead of converting existing C++ game engine using Emscripten?

[Jare]

Nonexistent compile times and easier debugging, plus all the other generic reasons you may (or may not) have to choose JavaScript as a programming language.

[Mikeb85]

The same pros that come with using a dynamic language vs. a statically typed one...

[CmonDev]

You can hire cheaper developers.

[petesamrogers]

Looks great. Anyone know if WebGL is ever going to be released/enabled for mobile Safari?

[theonewolf]

Anywhere where we can demo it live?

[rurounijones]

Looks like there are example DIRs in there.

I guess clone to local then open index.html

[andremendes]

"Last updated 2 years ago" Is it dead?

[dionyziz]

Yes! The original title of the post is "Our start-up failed and we open sourced it, too", but hackernews decided to edit my post title.

We started building a fully-fledged game, which failed. We subsequently decided to make the engine open source. We began working on this before other WebGL game engines became stable and popular like they are today.

[gboudrias]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!

[albeva]

not a single demo works for me ... white blank screen. Using Firefox