I very much appreciate that there are people in the world committed to their craft/art like this. Even if I only spend a couple minutes looking, it brought joy.
Question to whoever knows anything about this kind of stuff: Are loading times of these ever likely to get (meaningfully) better? The demos are all interesting, but having to wait forever (10-20s) before they load is excruciating. I would be afraid to know what the loading time of a non-demo kind of game would be.
This one also loaded basically instantly for me as well, but for example this one: https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/clouded_cracker_2/cloude... took ~15 seconds to load and then runs at 9 fps on a pretty powerful dev machine. (granted, it is running a bit slow and I'm also running a vm at the same time, so maybe that's the cause)
Ok, it turns out it's all my fault: fps was terrible due to the vm I was running simultaneously, it oes to 60 fps with vm turned off; and the loading time was because I was downloading it through my company's vpn.
These are great experiments! Really a nice mix of art and engineering at play. It looks like they go all the way back to MM Shockwave days, and some from the early 2000s have been rewritten for canvas. I just spent an hour lost in this museum!
This might be the first time I've heard Tom Petty and banger in the same sentence. People tending to use banger this way tend to not be Tom Petty fans. Nothing wrong with crossing over, but it was a shock to the system.
https://mameson.com/
https://mameson.com/experiment/glsl/ferro_9/ferro_9.html
https://www.babylonjs.com/games/
The engine examples also have fluid like surface displacement animations in shader tricks.
Fun stuff for sure, but would never let it in production for a few reasons =3
And the owner/author is a fan of Otamatone (https://www.thomann.de/uk/otamatone.html ) , that's great!
https://archive.org/details/ps3duckdemo
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Rub_%27a%27_Dub
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtT4MWzohRY