A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify
Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful, interactive levels. The goal was to blend marketing content with the look and feel of a game to engage users. The app is built with Three.js [1], using our custom render pipeline and shaders, and uses Rapier for physics simulation [2]. The 2D content is overlaid on the WebGL view…
A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify launched on November 22, 2024 with 616 votes, #26 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.
In plain words
A creative studio built an interactive WebGL game for Netlify to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by Marble Madness, players control a ball through playful levels while engaging with marketing content. The experience uses Three.js for rendering with custom shaders, Rapier physics simulation, and CSS 3D transforms to blend 2D overlays with the 3D environment. The game runs directly in the browser on a standard web platform.
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Netlify has reached 5 million developers! Travel through the journey to see how we got here and where you played a role (pun intended) in our story.
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Hello HN! We’re a small creative studio specializing in real-time 3D experiences. Netlify approached us to design and build an interactive experience to celebrate reaching 5 million developers. Inspired by the classic game Marble Madness, we created a gamified experience where users control a ball through playful…
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