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bko
p0w3n3d
yup
onehair
clearly xD
LorenDB
Well, clearly you and I have made it out alive :)
SamBam
I only managed to get out once I had earned all 9 badges...
swyx
ah so you havent discovered the secret 10th badge yet, have you
ebipaul5194
Where I can see the badges
johnfn
This is so good! Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before? I particularly like the points where the mouse control is taken away from you, i.e. when you float downstream, or when you go down a slide. It's also particularly genius how the mouse can 'teleport' around the screen (i.e. when you go into a door and come out somewhere else).
This idea could even be taken further - it would be really cool to have terrain that is more difficult to traverse. I'm also intrigued by the lack of walls. I think something like a hedge maze would be really fun!
pixelmelt
There was an old game called cursors.io which was the same concept but collaboratively traversing a maze where you would sometimes have to leave other players behind to reach the next level
mNovak
I think the water is difficult to traverse, in that it slows you down when 'swimming'.
It's really interesting how it still feels grounded even though you can fly all around. Having the cursor disappear underneath bridges and behind buildings really helps the illusion.
munificent
When you go all the way to the top near the horizon, the cursor shrinks and moves more slowly as it recedes into the distance.
Genius.
DrSiemer
A random experiment I made a few weeks ago does something similar, but it only uses the real cursor position for now: https://2shine.nl/demo/mousemaze/
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latexr
Badge Guide (to avoid spoilers, encoded with rot13¹):
* Cannonball!: Tb ba gur qvivat obneq va gur cbby. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Treasure Hunter: Teno n zrgny qrgrpgbe gura frnepu arne gur yrsg fvqr bs gur ibyyrlonyy svryq. Abegujrfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Goal!: Fpber n tbny jvgu gur fbppre onyy. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* S'more Please: Teno n znefuznyybj sebz gur ohpxrg naq chg gurz va gur ovt sver. Gnxrf nobhg gra frpbaqf. Abegurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Cat Person: Crg gur png va gur ubhfr. Abegujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Take a Seat: Fvg ba gjb punvef.
* Slide!: Tb ba gur ovt fyvqr. Rnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Beachcomber: Svaq nyy gur frnfuryyf.
* Green Thumb: Jngre gur irtrgnoyrf. Fbhgujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
why_at
Is there anything to the weird book in the treehouse or is it just for flavor? It seems to be alluding to something but I can't figure it out.
krackers
There's mention of the cave and a "convergence point". I tried looking all around the cave, but there doesn't seem to be anything there (although you can find the drawings on the walls)
Edit: I looked at the source though and I don't see anything else clickable in the cave... No hidden secret badge either, maybe it is just for ambiance.
latexr
Turning the antenna in the treehouse gives different messages of about two minutes each. It’s a bit hard to listen to the whole thing without someone else interrupting by changing the antenna, so here are the audio files:
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-1.mp3
https://neal.fun/cursor-camp/sounds/harold-2.mp3
There’s talk of the tent near the beach, the gong, and gathering at the big fire once you hear the call. There’s also talk of the cave, the star map, trusting the bats, and reading the right side of the book carefully. Though it seems to me the audio may be outdated and that the star map was initially in the book and was since moved to the telescope.
The right side of the book mentions the time 8:47.
If we look at the star map, only two of them are pointing inwards. If we consider that a “convergence point”, it should be around the area of the big fire and tent.
That’s as far as I’ve got with this.
notsylver
There's also a locked door in one of the buildings, but I couldn't figure out what either mean if anything. It would be cool if the radio was used for something though
nickvec
Why not encode the badge names as well in rot13?
latexr
Because then you’d need to decode the full message and might read something you didn’t mean to. This way you can decode just the individual ones you want.
The badge names aren’t secret, they’re available in the book in the house even before you unlock them.
lgas
Could just include the badge names both unencoded and encoded to get the best of both worlds.
steve_adams_86
The encoding is too advanced
quantummagic
With Firefox, moving the cursor is really unresponsive and difficult, at least with my touch-pad. Taking many swipes to move even a little bit in each direction. It's a much more enjoyable experience with Chrome.
testfrequency
This is why I could never commit to a Gecko based browser. There’s just too many daily sites I don’t have the patience to debug if it’s me or them.
maccard
I've used Firefox as a daily driver for 20 years now (that's terrifying to say). I have to switch to another browser about once a month (although at a previous job I had to use $INTERNAL_WEBSITE in edge permanently). I have 0 issues with daily sites
testfrequency
20 years of Firefox consistent use is actually impressive. Thank you for your service!
TonyStr
Haha, this is hardly a daily site, is it? I can't remember the last time I experienced a firefox-specific browser issue before this. 95%+ of my issues usually come from ublock
testfrequency
No doubt, OP’s site is niche (and very cool!), but between weird graphical rendering I’ve experienced in the past with Firefox and WebGL, among a number of just flat out broken forms - I just gave up.
I want Gecko to succeed as Chromium being a bully in the web space has been unfortunate, though I’m even more rooting for Ladybird.
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ForHackernews
Designed For Chromenet Explorer 6.0
Orygin
No issue on FF Macos with a touchpad
whamlastxmas
Firefox has years long outstanding bugs in regards to capturing cursor movements. It's really frustrating as someone who has spent years developing Babylon and three.js games and apps and uses FF as my primary browser. It basically makes Firefox completely unusable if you're relying on capturing cursors.
rendaw
Me too, mouse.
KerrickStaley
I love this! It reminds me of https://cursordanceparty.com/ which was built by a friend about 15 years ago and is still online :)
tikimcfee
I had fun on the internet again. Thank you internet people <3
chrisshroba
This is such a breath of fresh air. I feel like I'm back on Club Penguin!
fatthor123
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danielrmay
Brilliant. If you needed proof the internet is still alive, here you go. I feel like Neal's creations are the result of creatively iterating on "what if" and "why not".
accCer
It was fun rick rolling you all on the piano. Vibe coded a little script that would play all kinds of melodies including rick roll. I eventually attracted a whole audience of cursors emoji reacting to it.
hadrien01
I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!
rohitpaulk
Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE
lacoolj
Lol Zed > Cursor but this Cursor > Zed
Nautman
I think it's incredible that you can feel a human connection with someone on the other side of the world purely by moving your cursors together. Just had a "game" of soccer with random people.
Well done, Neal!
jbombadil
I think there's a case for a corporate class action lawsuit against Neal for employee productivity loss every time every time a new game is published.
latexr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Quest
> There is an urban myth that the release of Dragon Quest III caused a law to be passed in Japan banning the sale of Dragon Quest games or video games in general except on certain days such as weekends or national holidays. When III was released in Japan, over 300 schoolchildren were arrested for truancy while waiting in stores for the game to be released. The rumor claims there was a measurable dip in productivity when a Dragon Quest game was released and although muggings of Dragon Quest titles became so widespread that there were hearings in the Japanese Diet, no law was ever passed.
Gigachad
I seem to remember some similar discussion about when google put pacman in the google doodle.
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I like that this is on the front page and there are no comments. I imagine because everyone is busy exploring and didn't yet go back to the comments to see what people think. Good sign!