Cursor Camp

by bpierre • 3 months ago

1215 187 3 months ago

bko• 3 months ago

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!

LorenDB• 3 months ago

Well, clearly you and I have made it out alive :)

SamBam• 3 months ago

I only managed to get out once I had earned all 9 badges...

onehair• 3 months ago

clearly xD

p0w3n3d• 3 months ago

yup

huseyinkeles• 3 months ago

Really love all his work!

Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.

jbombadil• 3 months ago

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.

0x3444ac53• 3 months ago

Lmao it's blocked on my corporate wifi

echelon• 3 months ago

That's a crime. Your HR/IT are certifiably not fun.

mghackerlady• 3 months ago

same :(

latexr7• 3 months ago

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.

Aeolun• 3 months ago

Arrested for truancy?

Gigachad• 3 months ago

I seem to remember some similar discussion about when google put pacman in the google doodle.

bhresko1• 3 months ago

I absolutely love this. Kind of gives me Club Penguin vibes.

jborichevskiy• 3 months ago

I got taken back to Club Penguin as well. Especially clicking into the cave or treehouse and getting transported into a little side pocket of the map. Amazing work!

dtmooreiv• 3 months ago

100%, briefly playing this brought me right back to that for a second. I'm glad others felt that same vibe.

sprinkly-dust• 3 months ago

Club Penguin always held a special place in my heart but I never reflected on why. I'm sure part of it is a yearning for simpler times and a childhood unawareness of the nature of the world.

However, playing this reminded me of exploring hidden parts of a map imbued with love, the joys of finding other souls just lounging around or moving excitedly, and the cute little games and things strewn about every corner.

xnx2• 3 months ago

Any tips for getting the right-click menu to work with a touchpad?

I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.

52-6F-622• 3 months ago

Click + hold. Then move onto an option

xnx2• 3 months ago

Argh. No luck.

madebysnacks• 3 months ago

So engaging! Made me smile the entire time

KerrickStaley• 3 months ago

I love this! It reminds me of https://cursordanceparty.com/ which was built by a friend about 15 years ago and is still online :)

nerdsniper• 3 months ago

The last seashell is eluding me. Otherwise I got all the badges.

lbebber• 3 months ago

Near the title sign, on the center of the camp, is where I found the last one I missed

andrethegiant• 3 months ago

Absolutely incredible. Well done Neal

biosubterranean• 3 months ago

This is great

topherjaynes• 3 months ago

Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.

darshanmakwana• 3 months ago

This is awesome! Where can I find the music from the DJ booth? I can listen to that all day

BrunoBernardino• 3 months ago

Remember to have fun, people!

neurowave2• 3 months ago

Nice use of Rive!

hmokiguess3• 3 months ago

Sorry, what's Rive?

neurowave2• 3 months ago

Interactive engine for building apps, games, products with lots of motion https://rive.app

thatguymike• 3 months ago

Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.

ceroxylon• 3 months ago

When I see the domain of a post is neal.fun, I instantly get a huge grin because I know I am about to be delighted. Thank you Neal! The beach yurt with the mushroom soup was a hilarious touch.

ondrek• 3 months ago

This is the reason I love Hckrnews.

subpar• 3 months ago

firefly! iykyk

kami23• 3 months ago

This reminds me of the old internet for some reason I can't really nail down, but maybe the club penguin-ess of it.

greengreengrass• 3 months ago

Came to say the say thing. Strong Club Penguin feeling as soon as I saw that “off duty” sign on the lifeguard tower

nkmnz• 3 months ago

This was fun!

spking• 3 months ago

Touch virtual grass

danielrmay• 3 months ago

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".

forsakenharmony• 3 months ago

please don't re-implement mouse movement, this would work perfectly fine without and now it just feels really bad to use because my sensitivity is fucked

Macha• 3 months ago

Yeah, whatever bug they have with this affected me two, was swinging my mouse across most of my desk to move any distance whatsoever.

duderific• 3 months ago

I noticed this on Safari, but when I switched to Chrome it seemed fine.

asadm2• 3 months ago

except thats the whole point of this game. mouse movement needs to be controlled by the game here!

sgtlaggy• 3 months ago

My mouse is set to 400 DPI, acceleration off (libinput flat profile), and default (0) sensitivity (range -1.0 - 1.0, no change at 1.0). Had similar settings on Windows, games have crazy high default sensitivity but websites like this have extremely low sensitivity. I had to crank my DPI up to 2000 to make it usable and 4000 to be comfortable and roughly match desktop settings, but this also made the cursor extremely unwieldy when pausing the game. This and volume control are my biggest gripes.

dag11• 3 months ago

The soul of this game requires that your cursor can go "behind" things (like trees, or partially submerged in water), can have subtle nudges to keep you on paths and add friction when in water, and also to be able to take full control of your cursor for the lazy river etc!

throw5• 3 months ago

I really had fun with this one. You know what would make it even cosier? Being able to choose a small avatar for ourselves. The mouse pointer as your icon feels a very impersonal at the moment. Having avatars would make it feel more like we're all hanging out together in this wonderland.

stronglikedan• 3 months ago

It's not what you asked for, but right click to choose an enhanced icon. (EDIT: Oops that appears to just be a temporary emoticon)

devilbunny2• 3 months ago

You can put the hat on. It's in the main camp building in a bedroom. Your cursor will be wearing a hat from then on.

hmokiguess3• 3 months ago

awww man that was fun!

tikimcfee• 3 months ago

I had fun on the internet again. Thank you internet people <3

chrisshroba• 3 months ago

This is such a breath of fresh air. I feel like I'm back on Club Penguin!

deviantony• 3 months ago

I love Neal's creations so much !

buremba• 3 months ago

I don't usually like my cursor to be hijacked but man, I like this one.

SlackingOff123• 3 months ago

I can't get the 17th shell :(

alstonite• 3 months ago

SPOILER

the two that are hard to find are 1. by the river on the far left and 2. at the main spawn point

bl4ckneon• 3 months ago

One is kinda half hidden behind a tree on the far right and another one is next to the starting sign. The rest are on the beach area and very slightly off the beach area

dylkil• 3 months ago

Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this

mattlondon• 3 months ago

Yeah same here - unexpected!

TheGRS• 3 months ago

Well this is one of the most adorable things I've seen in a while. Thank you for sharing a little joy. So many little details I love, falling off the waterfall, the cursor size fading into the background, the flashlight in the cave. Haven't explored it all but going to share this right away.

ebbi• 3 months ago

So much fun! I ended up playing beach volleyball with a bunch of people from around the world! :D excellent!

wg0• 3 months ago

I thought its the 60 billion dollars one.

tiffanyh• 3 months ago

Cool, but wow - my iPhone heats up super fast while on that site.

hadrien01• 3 months ago

I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!

asadm2• 3 months ago

I wonder whats the multiplayer stack here. I haven't looked yet.

structuredPizza• 3 months ago

We have achieved world peace, fanks Neal :)

antdke• 3 months ago

That was a lot of fun. Brought back some nostalgia :)

melonpan7• 3 months ago

It even works on mobile, brilliant.

GrifMD• 3 months ago

That was delightful, what more can I say?

latexr7• 3 months ago

For the beach volleyball, aim to click only when the ball is in its downward trajectory.

WillieCubed• 3 months ago

The art style here is really charming. Thanks for the whimsy today!

lanewinfield• 3 months ago

Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.

Nautman• 3 months ago

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!

0xferruccio• 3 months ago

Incredibly well done by Neal as usual!! Always has new fun experiments that are always completely new concepts

parentheses• 3 months ago

Legit first post I've wanted to upvote in a long time.

tschwimmer• 3 months ago

Does anyone know how he is implementing country detection? I'm certain it's not GeoIP since my current IP address (and physical location) is different than the country it's showing me from.

ivanjermakov• 3 months ago

IP location, browser's locale, or combination of both: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

flexagoon• 3 months ago

GeoIP services can sometimes be wrong, they are essentially just lookup tables for IP subnets. I have a VPS in the Netherlands which most GeoIP providers detect as being in Czechia, for example. I assume whichever one the site is using just has the wrong country listed for your IP.

jp0d• 3 months ago

It's the same for me. I'm in Australia and on my work laptop I'm connected to an American VPN. It's showing my location as USA. I was wondering how it's detecting the country.

tokioyoyo• 3 months ago

Reminded me of Club Penguin days.

bovermyer• 3 months ago

I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.

wellthisisgreat• 3 months ago

Cursor brethren, why y u no join me on my pink flamingo expedition

latexr7• 3 months ago

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.

¹ https://rot13.com

why_at2• 3 months ago

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.

krackers5• 3 months ago

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.

nickvec2• 3 months ago

Why not encode the badge names as well in rot13?

mh-• 3 months ago

They've been encoded twice for extra protection.

latexr7• 3 months ago

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.

steve_adams_86• 3 months ago

The encoding is too advanced

bitwize• 3 months ago

When I was a teenager we had the Living Books edition of Arthur's Teacher Trouble on CD-ROM as part of a "multimedia kit". Every page had short animations that would play by clicking on random things with your cursor, in addition to following along with the story, clicking on single words to hear them pronounced and spelled, etc. It was incredible and paved the way for similar phenomena like clickable Easter eggs in Homestar Runner cartoons.

This reminded me of that.

DonHopkins• 3 months ago

Like Rodney's Wonder Window, the Probe and Poke Pet Shop, with the dog who poops when you click on him enough!

https://youtu.be/z5GMk8dgaD0?t=1498

Rodney Alan Greenblat:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Alan_Greenblat

Rodney is the same artist who did the delightful hybrid 2d/3d graphics designs for Parappa the Rapper:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMUX6b82Zbc

accCer• 3 months ago

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.

johnfn• 3 months ago

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!

munificent• 3 months ago

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• 3 months ago

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/

mNovak• 3 months ago

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.

pixelmelt• 3 months ago

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

aeonfox• 3 months ago

Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before?

Point-and-click adventure games and the golden age of Macromedia Flash might be before your time? This really reminds me of novelty sites built in Flash which was all point and click and vector animation. A lot of those sites are lost to time, or perhaps hidden in some deep crevice of the web archive.

I particularly like the points where the mouse control is taken away from you

One thing Flash couldn't do. But it had plenty of RCE exploits, so maybe it could.

only-one17012• 3 months ago

He's done it again folks

deweywsu• 3 months ago

SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!

arikrahman• 3 months ago

I'm happily disappointed this has nothing to do with a certain electron based code editor fork.

modinfo• 3 months ago

I did something similar https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/proximity-explorer

null_ptr1• 3 months ago

Ok, that's super cute. Dance on the dance floor!

dartharva• 3 months ago

Genuinely amazing!

knight_47• 3 months ago

This is so neat!

peyo25• 3 months ago

Fun! Thanks!

qainsights• 3 months ago

I thought cursor.com camp :)

dakolli• 3 months ago

NO AI !

nickvec2• 3 months ago

The depth of this project is amazing. So many details that you can click into!

dadima• 3 months ago

nice fun game

eranation• 3 months ago

Just spent 20 minutes of my life, I don't want them back, was worth every second.

rohitpaulk• 3 months ago

Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE

lacoolj2• 3 months ago

Lol Zed > Cursor but this Cursor > Zed

mindwork• 3 months ago

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

lacoolj2• 3 months ago

Bug report. If i click a book on the phone my pseudo cursor goes away! :(

kang• 3 months ago

I saw this experiment decades ago on the internet and it was to a music concert, i always wanted to do a cursor moshpit

quantummagic• 3 months ago

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.

rendaw• 3 months ago

Me too, mouse.

testfrequency3• 3 months ago

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.

TonyStr• 3 months ago

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

maccard2• 3 months ago

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

Orygin• 3 months ago

No issue on FF Macos with a touchpad

ForHackernews• 3 months ago

Designed For Chromenet Explorer 6.0

whamlastxmas• 3 months ago

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.

nzeid• 3 months ago

I'm a huge neal.fun fan but I still worried that this was some scammy LLM coding YouTube clickbait.

Love the joystick for mobile users.

benjian• 3 months ago

coolest website i've seen in a while! absolutely loving this!

Jordan-117• 3 months ago

Weirdly, this seems to kill my wifi connection after a minute or so (Firefox on Linux).

zhainya• 3 months ago

This probably would have been fun if it worked.

latexr7• 3 months ago

Clearly it is working for many people. Perhaps if you share your setup and what exactly is the issue you’re facing, someone may have a suggestion. “It doesn’t work” is just about the worse “bug report” one can make.

ygyooo• 3 months ago

That is so interesting!

rollyboo• 3 months ago

A really enjoyable journey ;) Felt like a kid again, cheers!

lucy_hnatchuk• 3 months ago

genuinely had a blast,felt like being a kid on a playground again.

RugnirViking2• 3 months ago

pretty hard to click through the cookie consent form because the browser hijacks the mouse and doesnt let it move to the right place. ended up using tab to click through it.

pred_• 3 months ago

And the cookie consent form is one of those that require you to click a gazillion toggles. Hasn't it been established now that opt-out must be no harder than opt-in?

RugnirViking2• 3 months ago

the law unambiguously says that, yes. However, companies these days seem to respond to enforcement, not the text of the law. They are all using the same few cookie banner libraries/providers, so that they have herd protection (if the eu wants to crack down on it, it has to do it to hundreds/thousands of companies simultaneously). It seems neal chose that route also.

idk1• 3 months ago

Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.

ultratalk• 3 months ago

Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?

janmagnusdev• 3 months ago

Anyone else having performance problems?

asimovDev• 3 months ago

I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople

npw55036• 3 months ago

That's awesome! It seems like all the rooms are accessible, but the football area is a bit laggy; the interaction feels like there's a lot of delay.

ggambetta• 3 months ago

This is so well made! In the car racing track there's an overpass, and the cursor correctly Z-orders depending on whether you're coming from the upper or lower part of the track. Respect.

ebipaul51942• 3 months ago

Nice game this is my first if able to add name that will be grate

victorbjorklund• 3 months ago

Really cool. Sucks that they have to have the cookie banners though. I feel like this could have been done without user tracking in that way.

pcthrowaway• 3 months ago

The most unrealistic thing is that the cat doesn't chase the mice around.

matsbjork• 3 months ago

Best cursor camp ive seen!

0x0ffff• 3 months ago

That's brilliant, at first I thought it was about with Neal Wu's site. but nah actually it turns out that it's just a cursor game!

ChicagoBoy11• 3 months ago

This is utterly delightful. Thank you.

amenghra• 3 months ago

Reminds me of the era of flash games/applets. People were building lots of cute, interactive stories back then.

lovegrenoble• 3 months ago

Thank you for productivity loss, Neal!

onemoresoop• 3 months ago

Fun intrusion. Works pretty good on my phone though it’s got really hot.

otar• 3 months ago

Very cute and funny! Thank you!

8bitbeep• 3 months ago

Very cool, but I think the user's cursor should be a different shape/color from the others. I frequently tried to move a neighboring cursor by mistake.

bob_backwards• 3 months ago

Arm-less nun, somehow pushing a wheelchair, holding a rabbi, carrying a military baby, eating spaghetti.

Ancalagon• 3 months ago

I couldn't find the last sea shell :(

sph• 3 months ago

Another certified neal.fun banger

RobOsTheGreat• 3 months ago

Hello there! I'm new to this Cursor Camp! How is everything going? What did I miss?

CatMustard• 3 months ago

Had a lot of fun on the right side of the map lol.

Anyone else find the left side of the map causes the framerate to drop down to 15ish for some reason? Very odd, completely smooth otherwise. Firefox Android browser.

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