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I like that this is on the front page and there are no comments. I imagine because everyone is busy exploring and didn't yet go back to the comments to see what people think. Good sign!

Badge Guide (to avoid spoilers, encoded with rot13¹):

* Cannonball!: Tb ba gur qvivat obneq va gur cbby. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.

* Treasure Hunter: Teno n zrgny qrgrpgbe gura frnepu arne gur yrsg fvqr bs gur ibyyrlonyy svryq. Abegujrfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.

* Goal!: Fpber n tbny jvgu gur fbppre onyy. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.

* S'more Please: Teno n znefuznyybj sebz gur ohpxrg naq chg gurz va gur ovt sver. Gnxrf nobhg gra frpbaqf. Abegurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.

* Cat Person: Crg gur png va gur ubhfr. Abegujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.

* Take a Seat: Fvg ba gjb punvef.

* Slide!: Tb ba gur ovt fyvqr. Rnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.

* Beachcomber: Svaq nyy gur frnfuryyf.

* Green Thumb: Jngre gur irtrgnoyrf. Fbhgujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.

¹ https://rot13.com

With Firefox, moving the cursor is really unresponsive and difficult, at least with my touch-pad. Taking many swipes to move even a little bit in each direction. It's a much more enjoyable experience with Chrome.

This is so good! Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before? I particularly like the points where the mouse control is taken away from you, i.e. when you float downstream, or when you go down a slide. It's also particularly genius how the mouse can 'teleport' around the screen (i.e. when you go into a door and come out somewhere else).

This idea could even be taken further - it would be really cool to have terrain that is more difficult to traverse. I'm also intrigued by the lack of walls. I think something like a hedge maze would be really fun!

Really cool. Sucks that they have to have the cookie banners though. I feel like this could have been done without user tracking in that way.

I love this! It reminds me of https://cursordanceparty.com/ which was built by a friend about 15 years ago and is still online :)

I had fun on the internet again. Thank you internet people <3

It was fun rick rolling you all on the piano. Vibe coded a little script that would play all kinds of melodies including rick roll. I eventually attracted a whole audience of cursors emoji reacting to it.

Brilliant. If you needed proof the internet is still alive, here you go. I feel like Neal's creations are the result of creatively iterating on "what if" and "why not".

Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE

I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!

I think there's a case for a corporate class action lawsuit against Neal for employee productivity loss every time every time a new game is published.

I think it's incredible that you can feel a human connection with someone on the other side of the world purely by moving your cursors together. Just had a "game" of soccer with random people.

Well done, Neal!

I'm a huge neal.fun fan but I still worried that this was some scammy LLM coding YouTube clickbait.

Love the joystick for mobile users.

Well this is one of the most adorable things I've seen in a while. Thank you for sharing a little joy. So many little details I love, falling off the waterfall, the cursor size fading into the background, the flashlight in the cave. Haven't explored it all but going to share this right away.

Nice game this is my first if able to add name that will be grate

This is so well made! In the car racing track there's an overpass, and the cursor correctly Z-orders depending on whether you're coming from the upper or lower part of the track. Respect.

SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!

Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?

I absolutely love this. Kind of gives me Club Penguin vibes.

So much fun! I ended up playing beach volleyball with a bunch of people from around the world! :D excellent!

That's awesome! It seems like all the rooms are accessible, but the football area is a bit laggy; the interaction feels like there's a lot of delay.

I did something similar https://github.com/skorotkiewicz/proximity-explorer

I saw this experiment decades ago on the internet and it was to a music concert, i always wanted to do a cursor moshpit

Reminded me of Club Penguin days.

I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople

Does anyone know how he is implementing country detection? I'm certain it's not GeoIP since my current IP address (and physical location) is different than the country it's showing me from.

Anyone else having performance problems?

pretty hard to click through the cookie consent form because the browser hijacks the mouse and doesnt let it move to the right place. ended up using tab to click through it.

genuinely had a blast,felt like being a kid on a playground again.

This probably would have been fun if it worked.

A really enjoyable journey ;) Felt like a kid again, cheers!

Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.

When I see the domain of a post is neal.fun, I instantly get a huge grin because I know I am about to be delighted. Thank you Neal! The beach yurt with the mushroom soup was a hilarious touch.

Incredibly well done by Neal as usual!! Always has new fun experiments that are always completely new concepts

He's done it again folks

Weirdly, this seems to kill my wifi connection after a minute or so (Firefox on Linux).

Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.

I really had fun with this one. You know what would make it even cosier? Being able to choose a small avatar for ourselves. The mouse pointer as your icon feels a very impersonal at the moment. Having avatars would make it feel more like we're all hanging out together in this wonderland.

Just spent 20 minutes of my life, I don't want them back, was worth every second.

Bug report. If i click a book on the phone my pseudo cursor goes away! :(

The depth of this project is amazing. So many details that you can click into!

I thought cursor.com camp :)

That is so interesting!

I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.

This reminds me of the old internet for some reason I can't really nail down, but maybe the club penguin-ess of it.

Ok, that's super cute. Dance on the dance floor!

For the beach volleyball, aim to click only when the ball is in its downward trajectory.

I love Neal's creations so much !

Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.

coolest website i've seen in a while! absolutely loving this!

Any tips for getting the right-click menu to work with a touchpad?

I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.

This is awesome! Where can I find the music from the DJ booth? I can listen to that all day

The art style here is really charming. Thanks for the whimsy today!

I don't usually like my cursor to be hijacked but man, I like this one.

Legit first post I've wanted to upvote in a long time.

I wonder whats the multiplayer stack here. I haven't looked yet.

Cool, but wow - my iPhone heats up super fast while on that site.

That was a lot of fun. Brought back some nostalgia :)

The last seashell is eluding me. Otherwise I got all the badges.

Touch virtual grass

That was delightful, what more can I say?

Really love all his work!

Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.

We have achieved world peace, fanks Neal :)

neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet

I thought its the 60 billion dollars one.

Nice use of Rive!

It even works on mobile, brilliant.

This is so neat!

So engaging! Made me smile the entire time

I can't get the 17th shell :(

Absolutely incredible. Well done Neal

This is great

Remember to have fun, people!

Genuinely amazing!

When I was a teenager we had the Living Books edition of Arthur's Teacher Trouble on CD-ROM as part of a "multimedia kit". Every page had short animations that would play by clicking on random things with your cursor, in addition to following along with the story, clicking on single words to hear them pronounced and spelled, etc. It was incredible and paved the way for similar phenomena like clickable Easter eggs in Homestar Runner cartoons.

This reminded me of that.

Cursor brethren, why y u no join me on my pink flamingo expedition

This was fun!

nice fun game

I'm happily disappointed this has nothing to do with a certain electron based code editor fork.

Fun! Thanks!

Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this

awww man that was fun!

Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.

firefly! iykyk

This is the reason I love Hckrnews.

please don't re-implement mouse movement, this would work perfectly fine without and now it just feels really bad to use because my sensitivity is fucked