The most unrealistic thing is that the cat doesn't chase the mice around.
bko
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!
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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.
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.
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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!
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
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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.
rohitpaulk
Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE
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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".
victorbjorklund
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.
hadrien01
I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!
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.
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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!
nzeid
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.
TheGRS
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.
ggambetta
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.
deweywsu
SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!
ebipaul5194
Nice game this is my first if able to add name that will be grate
bhresko1
I absolutely love this. Kind of gives me Club Penguin vibes.
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ebbi
So much fun! I ended up playing beach volleyball with a bunch of people from around the world! :D excellent!
ultratalk
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.
kang
I saw this experiment decades ago on the internet and it was to a music concert, i always wanted to do a cursor moshpit
tokioyoyo
Reminded me of Club Penguin days.
tschwimmer
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.
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asimovDev
I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople
lucy_hnatchuk
genuinely had a blast,felt like being a kid on a playground again.
RugnirViking
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.
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zhainya
This probably would have been fun if it worked.
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ceroxylon
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.
janmagnusdev
Anyone else having performance problems?
rollyboo
A really enjoyable journey ;) Felt like a kid again, cheers!
idk1
Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.
0xferruccio
Incredibly well done by Neal as usual!! Always has new fun experiments that are always completely new concepts
only-one1701
He's done it again folks
topherjaynes
Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.
Jordan-117
Weirdly, this seems to kill my wifi connection after a minute or so (Firefox on Linux).
throw5
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.
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eranation
Just spent 20 minutes of my life, I don't want them back, was worth every second.
lacoolj
Bug report. If i click a book on the phone my pseudo cursor goes away! :(
nickvec
The depth of this project is amazing. So many details that you can click into!
qainsights
I thought cursor.com camp :)
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ygyooo
That is so interesting!
bovermyer
I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.
kami23
This reminds me of the old internet for some reason I can't really nail down, but maybe the club penguin-ess of it.
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null_ptr1
Ok, that's super cute. Dance on the dance floor!
latexr
For the beach volleyball, aim to click only when the ball is in its downward trajectory.
thatguymike
Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.
deviantony
I love Neal's creations so much !
xnx
Any tips for getting the right-click menu to work with a touchpad?
I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.
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benjian
coolest website i've seen in a while! absolutely loving this!
darshanmakwana
This is awesome! Where can I find the music from the DJ booth? I can listen to that all day
WillieCubed
The art style here is really charming. Thanks for the whimsy today!
buremba
I don't usually like my cursor to be hijacked but man, I like this one.
asadm
I wonder whats the multiplayer stack here. I haven't looked yet.
parentheses
Legit first post I've wanted to upvote in a long time.
tiffanyh
Cool, but wow - my iPhone heats up super fast while on that site.
antdke
That was a lot of fun. Brought back some nostalgia :)
nerdsniper
The last seashell is eluding me. Otherwise I got all the badges.
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spking
Touch virtual grass
GrifMD
That was delightful, what more can I say?
huseyinkeles
Really love all his work!
Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.
structuredPizza
We have achieved world peace, fanks Neal :)
mindwork
neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet
wg0
I thought its the 60 billion dollars one.
neurowave
Nice use of Rive!
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melonpan7
It even works on mobile, brilliant.
knight_47
This is so neat!
madebysnacks
So engaging! Made me smile the entire time
SlackingOff123
I can't get the 17th shell :(
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andrethegiant
Absolutely incredible. Well done Neal
biosubterranean
This is great
BrunoBernardino
Remember to have fun, people!
dartharva
Genuinely amazing!
bitwize
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.
wellthisisgreat
Cursor brethren, why y u no join me on my pink flamingo expedition
nkmnz
This was fun!
dadima
nice fun game
arikrahman
I'm happily disappointed this has nothing to do with a certain electron based code editor fork.
peyo25
Fun! Thanks!
dylkil
Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this
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hmokiguess
awww man that was fun!
lanewinfield
Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.
subpar
firefly! iykyk
ondrek
This is the reason I love Hckrnews.
forsakenharmony
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
The most unrealistic thing is that the cat doesn't chase the mice around.
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!
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
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.
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 :)
I had fun on the internet again. Thank you internet people <3
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.
Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE
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".
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'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.
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.
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.
SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!
Nice game this is my first if able to add name that will be grate
I absolutely love this. Kind of gives me Club Penguin vibes.
So much fun! I ended up playing beach volleyball with a bunch of people from around the world! :D excellent!
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?
I did something similar https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/proximity-explorer
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 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.
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.
I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople
genuinely had a blast,felt like being a kid on a playground again.
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.
This probably would have been fun if it worked.
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.
Anyone else having performance problems?
A really enjoyable journey ;) Felt like a kid again, cheers!
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
Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.
Weirdly, this seems to kill my wifi connection after a minute or so (Firefox on Linux).
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.
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 :)
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.
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.
Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.
I love Neal's creations so much !
Any tips for getting the right-click menu to work with a touchpad?
I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.
coolest website i've seen in a while! absolutely loving this!
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.
I wonder whats the multiplayer stack here. I haven't looked yet.
Legit first post I've wanted to upvote in a long time.
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.
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!
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 :(
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
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.
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