Cool WebGL Stuff, 2020-11-19

[Ken Russell]

Here's the latest installment of cool stuff found by Khronos' WebGL working group. Check out especially the amazing set of games on Poki, CrazyGames and GamePix!

• Game aggregators - hundreds of games with polished presentation and monetization, most using WebGL

• poki.com - 30m MAU, 1.1m hours daily

• https://poki.com/en/g/rocket-soccer-derby

• Pretty feature complete, click2play rocket-league-like game. Could make the day for a school boy without pocket money to buy games (like me)

• crazygames.com - 10m+ MAU in 2018, 270k hours daily

• gamepix.com

• Publishers

• https://www.marketjs.com/category/3d - White label game licensing

• https://www.coolgames.com/games/ - Licensed popular IPs

• https://store.my.games/play/browser/ - Some converted Flash, some Pixi.js

• Example games from above sources using WebGL

• Venge.io Overwatch-style shooter (PlayCanvas)

• Hordes.io MMORPG (three.js)

• Fancy Pants Adventure (Poki.com does Flash conversion using AwayFL)

• Bullet Force Counterstrike-style shooter (Unity web)

• Crossy Road casual, ported from mobile (three.js)

• Mad Gunz battle royale (Unity web)

• Angry Birds Arena (Pixi.js)

• Tetris® Twist (Phaser.io)

• Geospatial Data Reinvented | unfolded.ai Spun out from Uber

• Rayground.com Shadertoy for ray tracing

• mgz.me [ Marco Gomez ] shader experiments

• soundshader.github.io sound visualization

• Flooding the Eye fluid simulation experiment

• https://kodeclubs.com/ Very fancy promotional site for new sports club

• Codevember throwbacks by @thespite

• Tesla Tequila by @BubelRobert

• PlayCanvas v1.36.0 released

• Water shader in Babylon.js’ NME

• Last sketch shader of November by @thespite

• Interstellar by @aqro

• Sketchfab celebrated their first profitable month!

• Quilotoa, Ecuador by @ElevationApi

• The Gilded Knight by kchulanov

• Alban’s 3D capture of Olivia’s birthday party

• @Sketchfab integration with @PolyCamAI

• WebXR homepage by @_rtz23

• Verge3D 3.5 nearly out; racing game demo

• Phyllotaxes by tdhooper

Please share your own creations and findings!

-Ken

P.S. Also archived at https://gfxprose.blogspot.com/2020/11/cool-webgl-stuff-2020-11-19.html .

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