A WebGL game engine

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!

dionyziz5• 13 years ago

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

dionyziz5• 13 years ago

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/

xerophtye2• 13 years ago

Umm... not that familiar with WebGL, but i assume it comes packaged with the browser. So, why am i getting a blank screen in all three? When bone animation does render a black blank screen and some control instructions..

benaiah2• 13 years ago

I don't usually complain about this kind of thing (because someone else usually does it first), but the model for the third demo is absurdly sexualized (think the original Tomb Raider, except even more so, in higher detail). Is there any particular reason you picked that one? Can it be replaced? It's laughably juvenile, and just distracts from a really impressive tech demo.

DanBC• 13 years ago

The stone tunnel could become a great game.

The player flies along the tunnel. They are faced with walls, and they need to mine / shoot past the walls. Some blocks in the wall are hard to get through, but score more. Some blocks in the wall are easier to get through, but score less. Occasionally some stones in the walls are power ups - rapid fire or explode the wall or slow the tunnel speed.

eonil4• 13 years ago

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

CmonDev2• 13 years ago

You can hire cheaper developers.

deoxxa• 13 years ago

I get the feeling it would cost more to hire developers who can wrap their heads around performance sensitivities in JavaScript and WebGL than it would to hire, say, C++ developers who've read the OGRE manual.

eonil4• 13 years ago

I believe hiring skilled JavaScript game programmer would be harder than hiring skilled C++ game programmer.

Jare• 13 years ago

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.

Mikeb852• 13 years ago

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

eonil4• 13 years ago

It doesn't seem most dynamic languages have huge benefit on large development project. Also, C++ has greater DSL options.

prottmann• 13 years ago

Last update 2 years ago ???

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

CmonDev2• 13 years ago

JS...

fritz_vd• 13 years ago

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

jtms• 13 years ago

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

albeva• 13 years ago

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

jheriko• 13 years ago

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.

petesamrogers• 13 years ago

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

andremendes• 13 years ago

"Last updated 2 years ago" Is it dead?

dionyziz5• 13 years ago

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.

A WebGL game engine

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