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Marble Marcher - A Fractal Physics Game

CodeParade · demo · Watch on YouTube

Computer graphics & renderingGame programming & enginesCreative coding & generative art

What it is

A demo of Marble Marcher, a game using a fractal physics engine and fully procedural ray-marched rendering. The player rolls a marble through shifting fractal levels.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN recommends it as a striking example of rendering with distance-estimated fractals and non-standard graphics approaches.

  • 2 people recommended it
  • 2 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “amazing how much detail can be rendered using fractals”

    Fractal physics game with impressive detail.

    gitgud, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Show HN: Fractal garden – realtime 3D fractal explorer in the browser”

  2. “you may like Marble Marcher made by Code Parade, it's a game that uses a similar approach to rendering”

    Game using a similar rendering approach.

    CyborgCabbage, 2022-10 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What piece of code/codebase blew your mind when you saw it?”

Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.

Topics: fractals, ray marching, procedural rendering, physics engine, game demo

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