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  • Anyone else getting this error on android chrome?

    >HipparcosGraphics error on arm valhall: device lost: A valid external Instance reference no longer exists. (tap to close; a screenshot to @gruberbuilds helps fix it)

  • Really great! Can you add WebXR support? Experiencing this in VR must be amazing.

    Minor correction: It says that L5 is as far from the Moon as Earth itself. It’s much, much further away! 150 million km vs 300.000 km

  • "This browser doesn't have WebGPU

    Island Three draws with WebGPU, which Firefox for Android doesn't have yet. Open this page in Chrome."

    lol, no thanks

  • I've had an idea to build something similar - or more specifically, a game in this form, since I saw Eric Bruneton's Rendezvous With Rama video, now about 15 years ago.

    Never did hand code it, even though I gained a lot of the skills and work in gamedev. This makes me feel time is running out to implement it with some of the unique twists I had in mind that become apparent with something like this ...

  • > The sunlight here comes from its mirrors, and its "gravity" comes from its spin.

    Where do the clouds come from? The AI?

  • Takes forever to load, runs terribly and looks awful.
  • On iOS Safari:

    Island Three could not start

    Range consisting of offset and length are out of bounds

    Reloading the page may help. A screenshot of this to @gruberbuilds on X helps fix it.

    I’m not on X

  • Just a heads up - this site managed to choke WindowServer on MacOS 27/Safari long enough to trigger a watchdog reboot.

    I never managed to load it and had to rush to kill its tab after the OS restarted and it began choking the machine again.

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