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24 alternatives to A WebGL hommage to PS1 demo discs

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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Remarkable WebGL Experiment.

    2015 · playkeepout.com · its alternatives →

  2. 2IR

    After 25 years of writing software, I was feeling nostalgic for the kinds of things that got me into programming in the first place: the old DOS demoscene. I spent a weekend seeing if I could recapture some of that INT 13H VGA magic using today's web tech, but with the old-school constraints of doing it from scratch. The result is this portfolio of ten classic effects running in a single HTML file. It's all vanilla JavaScript writing to a element, with no external libraries. It was a fun challenge to implement things like: * The color palette cycling and smooth fading in the Plasma demo. *…

    2025 · jdfio.com · its alternatives →

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    Recorder & Editor for better-looking product demos

    Nov 2025 · demostudio.app · its alternatives →

  5. 5AR

    My background project for the last two years has been re-implementing my 2004 C++ shoot'em up game in TypeScript + WebGL, and it's finally done (just in time for the 20th anniversary!) Play the game online: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/darklaga.html Technical article about the remake: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/remake.html I have tested Firefox, Chrome and Edge on desktop and mobile (no access to a device capable of running Safari). It's amazing how much difference 20 years makes: the hardware is so much more powerful, the web…

    2024 · nicollet.net · its alternatives →

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    Open Source Retro Gaming & STEM Portable Console

    2017 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →

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    Turn drawings in to video games!

    2014 · projectpixelpress.com · its alternatives →

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    A pixelated multiplayer RPG

    2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →

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    now on Nvidia's streaming!

    2015 · shield.nvidia.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple FPS for your VR needs

    2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  11. 11AF

    Another Sunday afternoon project: add some pizzaz to your boring bare metal or virtual machine consoles! Written as a single Go binary; no dependencies. https://github.com/Fusion/modernfbv As usual, feedback please!

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    A collection of generative WebGL experiments

    2017 · marpi.studio · its alternatives →

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    A simple javascript web radio visualizer. Contribute to victorqribeiro/radio development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

  14. 14VR
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  16. 16WV

    Hey everyone, my friend and I created a GitHub Wrapped video for developers to showcase their activity on the platform in a more fun way. The implementation is open-source (https://github.com/rendleyhq/github-wrapped-2024) if you're interested in how it was built. To get a bit geeky, we used masks, keyframe animations, luma key shaders to remove the background from the confetti video, and some other techniques. Also, everything is rendered directly in the browser!! I'm curious to hear your thoughts on the rendering performance, especially if you're running this on your…

    2024 · rendley.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I’ve created (co-created with my co-founder) a tool called demoshake that helps you build interactive demos and use them in your sales process. The idea is simple - you create as many demos as you want, group them and let your sales team use them in their demos calls. You can embed demos in your landing page (iframe style) too. I welcome any criticism and suggestions! Harun

    2024 · demoshake.com · its alternatives →

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    Render them in 3D using nothing but javascript and WebGL.

    2017 · sweethomeyo.com.tw · its alternatives →

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    WebGL. Simple. Powerful.

    2017 · babylonjs.com · its alternatives →

  21. 21WL

    2016 · whitestormjs.xyz · its alternatives →

  22. 22WM

    Just launched a very early beta of a multiplayer "FPS" made in WebGL using ThreeJS library. (possible to switch between FPS and 3rd person) Just a hobby project that I would love to get some feedback on, in order to see if I should continue working on it or not. Note; It will add the project to github as open source once I've spent some time cleaning up the code. URL: http://wizardwarz.nergal.se

    2014 · its alternatives →

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    Interactive 3D walkthrough

    2021 · demo.shapespark.com · its alternatives →

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