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

  yesterday at 5:49 PM

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

  • SamBam

    yesterday at 9:06 PM

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

    • ebipaul5194

      today at 10:44 AM

      Where I can see the badges

    • swyx

      yesterday at 9:14 PM

      ah so you havent discovered the secret 10th badge yet, have you

• onehair

  yesterday at 6:31 PM

  clearly xD

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_at

  yesterday at 11:50 PM

  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

    today at 2:48 AM

    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.

    • notsylver

      today at 4:48 AM

      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

      • krackers

        today at 5:29 AM

        Yeah I saw that too, but the list of all accessible rooms is also in the code and the only scenes I see are

          default
          sauna
          tent
          cave
          treehouse
          house-main
          house-cafeteria
          house-bedroom
          house-trophey
          boat
          telescope
        

        It would be really cool if there were some secrets, but alas it appears not (unless it's obfuscated in the source as well)

• nickvec

  yesterday at 11:58 PM

  Why not encode the badge names as well in rot13?

  • mh-

    today at 3:29 AM

    They've been encoded twice for extra protection.

  • latexr

    today at 8:16 AM

    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

  today at 2:26 AM

  The encoding is too advanced

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

  today at 6:30 AM

  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

    today at 9:55 AM

    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

      today at 10:25 AM

      20 years of Firefox consistent use is actually impressive. Thank you for your service!

      • maccard

        today at 10:39 AM

        I was indoctrinated as a teenager. A friends older brother was using it when he showed me World of Warcraft (not a euphamism) and I went home and downloaded it and never looked back.

        I've contributed to a bunch of OSS, but for some reason never firefox.

  • TonyStr

    today at 8:25 AM

    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

      today at 10:00 AM

      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.

  • today at 6:37 AM

• Orygin

  today at 10:31 AM

  No issue on FF Macos with a touchpad

• ForHackernews

  today at 10:34 AM

  Designed For Chromenet Explorer 6.0

• rendaw

  today at 4:34 AM

  Me too, mouse.

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!

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

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.

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

• chrisshroba

  yesterday at 8:06 PM

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

  • fatthor123

    yesterday at 8:18 PM

    [flagged]

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.

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".

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

• lacoolj

  today at 3:51 AM

  Lol Zed > Cursor but this Cursor > Zed

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

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

  yesterday at 9:47 PM

  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

    yesterday at 10:43 PM

    Arrested for truancy?

    • LeoPanthera

      yesterday at 10:46 PM

      Truancy is a crime in many countries, including the USA.

      • yesterday at 10:56 PM

      • buzzerbetrayed

        yesterday at 11:46 PM

        An offense, sure. But it’s not a “crime” in the US.

        • thayne

          today at 12:51 AM

          Not for the student. But at least in some states, parents can potentially face jail time if their children miss enough school.

          • portmanteur

            today at 1:32 AM

            Kamala Harris bragged about enforcing this law against parents in California. That’s the only way that I know that it’s an actual law that gets enforced because I had never heard of laws like this before, and I grew up in US public schools in the South.

• Gigachad

  today at 3:33 AM

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

• 0x3444ac53

  yesterday at 8:00 PM

  Lmao it's blocked on my corporate wifi

  • echelon

    yesterday at 8:31 PM

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

    • swyx

      yesterday at 9:14 PM

      dont make them the scapegoats. who was it that said "behind every rule on that wall is an idiot who made it necessary"

      • only-one1701

        today at 12:06 AM

        Found the manager

        • andrew_lettuce

          today at 12:32 AM

          Never Let common sense and trust do the job when another policy in the employee handbook can do the job!

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!

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.

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.

• fatthor123

  yesterday at 8:18 PM

  [flagged]

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.

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

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

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

• jborichevskiy

  yesterday at 9:41 PM

  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

  today at 5:51 AM

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

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

• fatthor123

  yesterday at 8:19 PM

  [flagged]

  • ebbi

    yesterday at 8:36 PM

    Unfortunately it's the start of my work day so I had to force myself to close the tab! Will give it another go after work...

  • SamBam

    yesterday at 9:07 PM

    Find treasure hunting equipment on the beach...

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?

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.

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

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

Reminded me of Club Penguin days.

I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople

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

  yesterday at 10:25 PM

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

• flexagoon

  today at 1:30 AM

  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

  today at 1:59 AM

  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.

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_

  today at 8:53 AM

  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?

  • RugnirViking

    today at 10:20 AM

    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.

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

Anyone else having performance problems?

This probably would have been fun if it worked.

• latexr

  today at 8:25 AM

  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.

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

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.

Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.

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

He's done it again folks

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

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

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

  yesterday at 7:37 PM

  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)

  • devilbunny

    yesterday at 9:50 PM

    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.

    • ZeWaka

      yesterday at 10:23 PM

      You can also put other clothes on, like sunglasses and shorts.

      • devilbunny

        yesterday at 11:20 PM

        Can you don multiple items? Didn't try.

        • krackers

          today at 4:39 AM

          Yeah you can. You buy them with seashells.

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

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

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

I thought cursor.com camp :)

• dakolli

  today at 3:41 AM

  NO AI !

That is so interesting!

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

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

  yesterday at 11:41 PM

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

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

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

I love Neal's creations so much !

Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.

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

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

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

• 52-6F-62

  yesterday at 6:01 PM

  Click + hold. Then move onto an option

  • xnx

    yesterday at 6:14 PM

    Argh. No luck.

    • 52-6F-62

      today at 1:31 AM

      :(

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• lbebber

  yesterday at 7:51 PM

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

  • fatthor123

    yesterday at 8:20 PM

    [flagged]

    • _air

      yesterday at 8:37 PM

      Grab a metal detector to the left of the volleyball court. Then hold it near the bottom left edge of the court

    • SamBam

      yesterday at 9:08 PM

      You need to stop spamming this message. This isn't Reddit.

Touch virtual grass

That was delightful, what more can I say?

Really love all his work!

Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.

We have achieved world peace, fanks Neal :)

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

I thought its the 60 billion dollars one.

Nice use of Rive!

• hmokiguess

  yesterday at 7:51 PM

  Sorry, what's Rive?

  • neurowave

    yesterday at 8:52 PM

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

    • hmokiguess

      yesterday at 11:45 PM

      Thanks! Didn’t know about it, looks fun

It even works on mobile, brilliant.

This is so neat!

So engaging! Made me smile the entire time

I can't get the 17th shell :(

• alstonite

  yesterday at 9:12 PM

  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

  yesterday at 9:19 PM

  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

• fatthor123

  yesterday at 8:19 PM

  [flagged]

  • SlackingOff123

    yesterday at 8:28 PM

    No, I don't think so.

Absolutely incredible. Well done Neal

This is great

Remember to have fun, people!

Genuinely amazing!

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.

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

This was fun!

nice fun game

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

Fun! Thanks!

Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this

• mattlondon

  yesterday at 8:22 PM

  Yeah same here - unexpected!

• fatthor123

  yesterday at 8:20 PM

  [flagged]

awww man that was fun!

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

firefly! iykyk

This is the reason I love Hckrnews.

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• botzi2001

  yesterday at 8:45 PM

  I think this you need to take the metal detector from the beach and search in the area

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• frankfrank13

  yesterday at 9:05 PM

  brother how many times are you gonna comment that

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

• sgtlaggy

  yesterday at 8:38 PM

  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

  yesterday at 11:10 PM

  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!

• Macha

  yesterday at 8:19 PM

  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

    yesterday at 9:03 PM

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

  • fatthor123

    yesterday at 8:20 PM

    [flagged]

• yesterday at 10:07 PM

• asadm

  yesterday at 8:31 PM

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