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Could you put in an invert mouse Y-axis for us old farts?

Unfortunately it is very stuttery on my Pixel 7 Pro, looks awesome though

I'm blown away by being able to drop in on it on my smartphone seamlessly! My phone got noticibly warm during play.

On Linux/Chrome mouse look keeps snapping back. It's really frustrating and makes it unplayable for me

Excellent! I had originally planned to give it a quick glance, but I was so captivated, I had to see it through the end.

For those aspiring to become creative developers, could you share any tips on which areas they should focus on?

Thank you for building it. Did you guys use Unity? The startup time is very low.

I’m really impressed by the visual and audio design, and the graphics and audio implementation too. It’s great that it loads quickly - far too many online 3D games are stuck behind lengthy loading screens.

How big was the team and how long did it take to make it?

Excellent work, works great on mobile, which is rare for a web game

Love the project. How long did it take for you to conceive and launch? What tools or platforms would you recommend to use for anyone interested in a similar project? Thanks

Played on Chrome on my Android phone in portrait mode, and the whole game I felt it was too zoomed in.

I was suspicious of that AI the whole time. Like, did it get sent into this asteroid field on purpose to destroy it because it was a threat? Were there other unconscious passengers locked in those rooms and if I died following some risky instruction would it simply wake the next one up? How could it practically see through my eyes and would I turn out to be an automated drone?

Would have liked a bit more subplot to explore. Eg. Fix the spinning satellite to utilize the Comms station. Gain access to the third floor in the lift. Poke around the AI control room to uncover sabotage.

Maybe I just missed some discoveries on my playthrough.

Hey :) I see you guys everywhere nowadays. Congrats, and happy to see you keep on doing amazing things!

Lots of great projects. How can I experience TRACK in VR? I opened the site in my Quest 3 browser but it says webvr not supported.

Someone else mentioned babylon.js in this thread. Did you evaluate that and choose three.js over it?

I enjoyed it, but in Safari on iOS there was no sound at any point. I checked my device volume. I toggled the game option for sound on and off.

It just occurred to me that it may be because I have my phone ringer set to silent. That is indeed what caused it, which is not great as I don't want notifications to be making noise.

It also felt slightly too zoomed in (I even attempted to zoom out using my fingers).

Amazing work! How did you get the 3D engine to work so smoothly? Is this three.js?

Super impressive. I wish I could play any video game on the web like this. How long did this take to build?

Could you increase the range for the mouse sensitivity option? I'm finding that even maxing it out results in painfully slow look speed.

Looks awesome, nice work. I have an unrelated question, on little workshop's website I can see a pétanque game that I couldn't find online. Is there a way to play this game or was it available only during an event?

I can't wait 2500 years, are there hibernation pods anywhere on the ship?

It's amazing, thank you. I really struggled without mouse inversion but got there in the end.

fantastic work!

also game is tough? waiting for the walkthroughs lol

This is beautiful and very fun

Ah, you also did the Transmit 3D truck for the Panic website. Nice work!

I booked first class but your system is buggy and put me in economy; now I'm stuck because I wasn't in the escape pod!

Someone should start a space ride hailing service. I bet the pod was yellow.

you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey. Making sacrifices in power and computing ability to resolve problems that occur throughout the ship.

There's a multiplayer game where you get in a match and play tiny minigames where you fix the issues of the ship, and once you fix them all, you win.

The twist is, there is an assasin among all players, and his goal is to sabotage your ship even more and to kill everyone, without getting caught. So the duration of the journey is only based on how quick you either fix the ship, find the impostor or die.

Wish I could remember the name, it was pretty popular during the pandemic.

That sounds similar to a sub-plot in Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky. Very interesting book!

Just had a few seconds, A/D is strafing as I'd expect

This game reminds me of the 90's FMV game Mission Critical [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Critical_(video_game)

FTL: Faster Than Light is sort of similar to your premise but the style is very different - it's a roguelike RTS.

https://subsetgames.com/ftl.html

In FTL you experience the atmosphere of running a spaceship trying to save the galaxy. It's a dangerous mission, with every encounter presenting a unique challenge with multiple solutions.

What will you do if a heavy missile barrage shuts down your shields?

- Reroute all power to the engines in an attempt to escape?

- Power up additional weapons to blow your enemy out of the sky?

- Or take the fight to them with a boarding party?

I have pages of notes for a game like this that I've been thinking about since university, largely inspired by Battlestar Galactica and The Expanse. This game reminded me of it too, maybe I'll get to it one day.

had my vote at the landing page

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it! I like your idea a lot, I would definitely play this.

the entire duration of the journey

Sounds a bit like 'Desert Bus'

https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-b...

You're on a ship going between destinations, but there's no light-speed shortcut, or jump-cut to the destination. Instead, you have to maintain the ship for the entire duration of the journey.

Neptune's Pride [0] is a fantastic real-time strategy game that has this feature without the maintenance part. You play the game over the course of days instead of minutes or hours. And it may take hours for your ships to reach their destinations. A ton of fun with friends.

[0] https://np.ironhelmet.com/#landing

See Tharsis (https://store.steampowered.com/app/323060/Tharsis/) and Seedship (https://johnayliff.itch.io/seedship).

Sunless Seas and Sunless Skys are two narrative-driven games in the Fallen London universe which otherwise hit a lot of these beats.

The only thing I'm seeing is a spinning globe on FF for Android. Smooth, but I guess I'm missing something...

Thank you. Hint: look for a door which doesn't look like the others in the central hub.

then I got about half a second of a pure magenta screen

That's an Apple hardware classic. Sorry to report that your GPU might be shot. (Hopefully it was just a one-time fault, though.)

Doesn't seem like the crash is repeating itself. Now it is running fine. The first time through, it died right after I was told to open the door but right before the door became openable.

Thanks for the feedback! We used the Three.js WebGL library and a custom-built game engine for the various interactions, pathfinding and game logic. We modeled the scenes in Blender and SideFX Houdini, and also baked lightmaps with Blender.

You have to match the colors as well.

Did you match colors too?

Thanks! About "Show HN:", we would have done so but someone else posted it so we have no control over the title.

It would only be Show HN if OP were the creator, which they are not, I think.

Show HN is for authors submitting their own work...

Stanley Parable / Dr. Langeskov, The Tiger, and The Terribly Cursed Emerald: A Whirlwind Heist are two (from the same devs) that stand out in recent memory. Myst (and Riven and there are like six total ending with a fully 3d Obduction) are cult classics and already referenced.

You would likely enjoy Myst: https://www.gog.com/en/game/myst_masterpiece_edition

Related HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18058991

Thanks hackton. Really appreciate it!

While creating Equinox, it frequently felt like we were working on tiny details that hardly anyone would notice. But ultimately I believe that immersion largely relies on the accumulation of all these small additions.

Thanks for the music appreciation, it means a lot!

I thought exactly the same thing.

We sure hope that game publishers/studios will find Equinox inspiring.

We're working on some behind-the-scenes content that will most likely be published on X and LinkedIn. You can follow us if you're interested: https://twitter.com/glecollinet

Thanks, we'll look into it.

Wow thank you, this comment made my day. Really glad that our little project could make you experience that feeling again! Adventure games from the 90s definitely played their part as an inspiration for this.

The music reminded me of Super Hexagon.

Thank you! This is a feature we are planning to add in the near future. We used the same controls as Google Maps street view but perhaps for a game it can feel a bit weird.

Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. We have no plans for open sourcing it at the moment. We'll tweet more details on how we made it, soon-ish.