Interactive studies in Three.js
A collection of demos exploring features I'm considering including in our upcoming Corn Game. These were written with heavy use of ChatGPT Codex.
August 4, 2026
Explore the forest, find wildflowers, and fill in your field notebook. Testing a very specific stare to record mechanic. Subtle zoom effect, lets player know something is happening. Unknown flowers glow (inspired by elden ring).
Walk the meadow →
August 5, 2026
Evaluating whether we can use billboards for rendering cornfields, as a stylistic choice. Different types of billboards are tested. There are some trinkets in the maze to collect.
Enter the maze →
August 7, 2026
Dolly-zoom effect for teleportation (idea came from the hand thing grabby things from echoes of the eye). A myst-esc contraption using the effect.
Use the contraption →
August 11, 2026
Inspired by land of the lost, and Matt Smith's second tardis. Worked out some kinks with portals. Experimenting with different ways of doing windows (currently the simple way). Spatial audio for the sweep sound effect.
Investigate the pylon →
August 12, 2026
Test of 4d corn maze carving and object visibility profiles. Antichamber-inspired circular path with more than 360deg connects 2 towers, one of which is closer to the other than the other is to it.
Enter the 4D field →
August 16, 2026
A near/far rendering study with single-card corn, a fixed windless capture tile, power-of-two clipmaps, procedural clouds, environment presets, and a tower.
Study the field →
September 4, 2026
A shader test where textures stay centered in screen space while surface normals still drive lighting. Compared fixed, per-object, and per-pixel distance scaling. In the end I disabled the object offsets as pure screenspace look was better. But this meant distance scaling had to be disabled as well.
Inspect the surfaces →
September 5, 2026
NPC state machine test, also trying to get appearance of the ghosts right
Meet the spirits →
September 9, 2026
Recreating the sorely missed seabreeze flyers, with simulated aerodynamics on tail and rider-controlled rudder, inelastic constraints for the cables, and rigid body for main structure and tubs. Tries to detect "cable snapping."
Take the rudder →
September 15, 2026
Dummy menu with floating menu items, rotating view of the campsite, shifting cornfield, and other spooky effects.
Wait by the fire →