[HN Gopher] Floor796
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Floor796
Author : krtkush
Score : 980 points
Date : 2025-12-27 13:13 UTC (1 days ago)
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| AmazingTurtle wrote:
| Thats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :)
| https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732
| _kush wrote:
| So fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I've been
| clicking everywhere and didn't find any
| timenotwasted wrote:
| The Jaws one is fun too, only reason I found it is because it
| says click beneath it, https://floor796.com/#b3l3,84,789
| orbital-decay wrote:
| Fight Club rules poster: https://floor796.com/#t3r3,776,193
| wartijn_ wrote:
| From the FAQ in the "about" section of the website:
|
| - You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known
| game Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click
| on him, he will appear in full and wave at you.
|
| - Quest #1 - Mafia Treasures. To start the quest, go to the
| room where the Mafia is holding the annual meeting and click
| on the suitcase.
|
| - Quest #2 - Subspace Tuner: To start this quest, click on
| the large advertising screen that says 'Bad Signal' next to
| the pirate ship.
|
| - Payphone - you can call different subscribers on the 796th
| floor. Subscriber numbers are constantly being added and can
| be found in various places on the floor.
|
| - In the Police Station click on the big screen to see the
| project statistics: current online, visits by country, number
| on interactions with all elements on the floor, etc.
|
| - One of the arcade machines has a real game - Racer796.
|
| - In the park zone there is Change My Mind guy. Click on him
| to add your own phrase to the rotation.
|
| - You can compose a 10-second melody and add it to rotation
| by clicking on the guy in the hospital with the pink
| synthesizer.
|
| - You can draw small pixel animation and add it to rotation
| by clicking on the Fun Drawing Screen near the Police
| Station.
|
| - Click on the Chunk Norris in the park zone.
|
| - Click on the JAWS 19 ad screen in the block with Back to
| the Future references.
|
| - Click on Naruto near the pirate ship.
|
| - There is Free Ads Board next to the pirate ship. You can
| draw your own advertising screen and specify which URL it
| links to.
|
| - There are also many small interactive elements on the
| floor, clicking on which will show an additional picture,
| play a sound or cause some action to occur.
| toledocavani wrote:
| Or on Chuck Norris: https://floor796.com/#t3l1,134,205
| Akronymus wrote:
| Or the black hole https://floor796.com/#t3r3,28,997
| mrlonglong wrote:
| Cute. There's that tripedal robot from Interstellar there.
| lossyalgo wrote:
| Or the Ninja Turtle to the left of the black hole.
| xfour wrote:
| What did I just click on? Love the no context drop in with 37
| points and no comments.
|
| That being said whatever this is... something
| rjh29 wrote:
| https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Floor796&type=story&dateRange=...
| latexr wrote:
| You clicked on an art project being made as a hobby. There is
| an "About" link on the top left if you want to know more.
| sph wrote:
| This is incredible!
|
| I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck!
| cmg wrote:
| From the FAQ:
|
| > You can try to find Wally (Waldo), as in the well-known game
| Where's Wally. He is partially visible, but if you click on
| him, he will appear in full and wave at you.
| fwip wrote:
| Previous discussion:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510067
| eightturn wrote:
| sites like this make the internet a better place.
| jnellis wrote:
| Nice, this just crashed my entire desktop.
| throawayonthe wrote:
| impressive, what's your desktop?
| jnellis wrote:
| just win10 and firefox. It wanted to run workers in firefox,
| locked up firefox, then somehow taskmanager was locked up and
| things went downhill from there.
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| Works for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG.
|
| Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.
| Peteragain wrote:
| I think it will absorb at least as many hours as doom scrolling,
| and be much better for me.
| jupin wrote:
| I wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's
| NSFW ;D
| debo_ wrote:
| Hopefully your kids aren't working yet, so it's fair game!
| latexr wrote:
| Maybe their kid is called William and they meant it's Not
| Safe for Will.
| cyode wrote:
| Mega gif indeed. Two relevant excerpts found in the about page
| (it's a gif but not a gif):
|
| > Why 796?
|
| > The name of the project has a small code: 7, 9 and 6 are the
| ordinal numbers of the letters in the English alphabet for the
| word GIF. This project is essentially one big gif, a mega gif,
| so all the action takes place on the 796th (GIF) floor of the
| space station :)
|
| > How does animation rendering work?
|
| In order to maintain pixel clarity and still have good
| compression, it was necessary to create own video format. The
| entire animation is divided into sections, and each section is
| packed into this special format. The browser then loads the
| desired section and renders it in a separate thread into the
| common canvas.
| vjay15 wrote:
| The entire page was amazing, but holy shit that art in the middle
| that shows how the current system works where kids are sent to
| school to study and then they graduate, get crushed into becoming
| mere tools instead of the human beings we are meant to be.
| p2detar wrote:
| I think it is "Pink Floyd - Another Brick in the Wall"
| reference.
|
| edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more
| info about their origin.
| lossyalgo wrote:
| Single-clicking is sufficient :)
|
| Also there are a lot of special clickable actions (mentioned
| in the FAQ > About section, or just keep clicking until you
| find something, there are 20+ special actions).
| ForceBru wrote:
| Is it just me or is the phrase "human beings" used more often
| than simply "humans"? I've just started to notice this: the
| next word after "human" is very often "beings". Whenever
| someone wants to emphasize our humanity (as opposed, say, to a
| horse's horseness), they almost always say "human _beings_"
| instead of "humans". Somehow "human beings" seems to emphasize
| the "human spirit/soul".
| Jakob wrote:
| Yes. There are lots around; whenever the original word
| becomes too short for the importance people want to give it.
|
| Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter "into" the room,
| French: hui (today) -> aujourd'hui (day of today)
|
| Keyword: pleonasm
| umanwizard wrote:
| I'm sure I've even heard French people say "au jour
| d'aujourd'hui"
| teapot7 wrote:
| I'm pretty sure I've seen that one in a list, by a French
| person, of things they wish other people wouldn't say!
| simgt wrote:
| Yes, we had an epidemic of that about 10 years ago. It
| was everywhere. Thankfully it's mostly gone now and we're
| back to "aujourd'hui".
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| Lived experience
| avidiax wrote:
| https://floor796.com/#t4r2,799,120
| badsectoracula wrote:
| As someone else mentioned this is a reference to the Pink Floyd
| - Another Brick in the Wall, most likely this music video[0].
|
| [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs35t2xFqdU
| tux1968 wrote:
| Thanks for sharing this one. There's so many brilliant and funny
| little vignettes in this piece. I'm amazed at what some people
| are able to do, so far outside anything I could dream about
| creating.
| eightturn wrote:
| there's even a HN img reference
| burnt-resistor wrote:
| https://floor796.com/#t1l5,147,868
|
| I guess that's on a different timeline than the former? S
| Whisman location. ;)
| arrty88 wrote:
| So cool. Nice to see Walt and Jesse cooking
| scrollop wrote:
| Would be interesting to give all the NPC AI, then control one and
| see how everything interacts, or get dropped into this in first
| person and interact with everything/everyone powered by AI.
| bovermyer wrote:
| Given that this is hand-crafted by a real artist, introducing
| AI into it would be a betrayal of the entire concept.
| NooneAtAll3 wrote:
| you're thinking of wrong kind of Ai
| bovermyer wrote:
| I don't think I am. The wording of the person's post
| suggests the use of LLMs, not general AI or another form.
| deadbabe wrote:
| AI != LLM
| justsomehnguy wrote:
| Theme Hospital is a thing.
| c-hendricks wrote:
| Not often you see Lexx references:
| https://floor796.com/#t0l2,597,381
| lexx wrote:
| Indeed
| burnt-resistor wrote:
| Kai strikes again. That series was hilarious to my undergrad
| self. I think I caught it on Comedy Central or the Sci-Fi
| Channel (SyFy) junior year.
| krelian wrote:
| This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what
| captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about
| it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius
| or the 90's game Flashback.
| vitaflo wrote:
| I thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar
| and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it's just
| someone else who is really good at this stuff.
|
| https://www.eboy.com/
| geerlingguy wrote:
| Silicon Valley (TV show) had a similar themed intro style
| swah wrote:
| Ouch, this now looks dated. Society is in another mood...
| InfiniteLoopGuy wrote:
| Theme Hospital
| pell wrote:
| That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still
| a great game.
| spopejoy wrote:
| The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game
| dilyevsky wrote:
| Looks more like Xcom: UFO Defense
| jofzar wrote:
| To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but
| it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing.
| Findecanor wrote:
| The art style reminds me a bit of that of Al Jaffee in MAD
| magazine.
| marcellus23 wrote:
| This reminds me a lot of the 2000s internet that I grew up on.
| This was the kind of thing I used to find using StumbleUpon.
| chiantiM wrote:
| OMG... stunning maximalism
| paulbjensen wrote:
| This is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.
| backtogeek wrote:
| This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia.
|
| I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.
| smusamashah wrote:
| The editor that is used to draw these animations
| https://floor796.com/editor/l0
|
| Author has a YouTube channel too somewhere where you can see him
| making a drawing start to end. (edit:
| https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCribkEGzOuMQ9ozb0ektMCQ)
|
| From FAQs
|
| > The creation of Floor796 started in 2018. I spent the first
| year creating the animation editor, the rendering engine and the
| site itself. Then I started drawing the first characters. I drew
| slowly at first, as I had to get used to the projection and
| constantly improve the animation editor. I've been creating the
| first block for over 8 months. Now I draw 1 block in about 1-1.5
| months.
|
| Author made everything, including the editor, by himself.
| mapcars wrote:
| Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era
| characters which I don't think western people know about.
| mojuba wrote:
| Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly
| soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an emigre from
| the USSR.
| cubefox wrote:
| Why emigre? He is probably Russian.
| PeterHolzwarth wrote:
| Well, not to put too fine a point on it, but it would be
| more correct to say that the author/artist is likely from
| a country that uses the Cyrillic script.
| horpia wrote:
| Author is from Minsk, Belarus. This information is in his
| profile on Artstation
| tim333 wrote:
| >..the site's developer Pavel Sannikau is always working
| on new rooms for floor796. Sannikau is a 36-year-old web
| programmer living in Belarus
|
| From 2023 article https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools-of-
| the-trade/floors796-pav...
|
| The guy was active on Reddit a week ago https://www.reddi
| t.com/r/gifs/comments/1pqktaj/new_block_56_...
| Rendello wrote:
| You can click characters to show who they are, as well.
| tartoran wrote:
| I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot.
| Hnrobert42 wrote:
| The two language options are English and Russian.
| csomar wrote:
| The source map is there. The whole thing is made with
| JavaScript and with very little (pretty much no?) dependencies.
| No React, No TypeScript, No 54.643 packages to download. He
| seems to use lesscss but that's about it.
|
| Sometimes I wonder if we lost the art-craft in all of this
| frameworks mania. This work has better performance than 99.9%
| of the apps out there despite being reasonably complex (UI-
| wise). I legit though this was built with WebAssembly at the
| initial interactions.
| MangoToupe wrote:
| Different constraints produce different results.
| kylecazar wrote:
| Haven't found Waldo yet
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| Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun.
| crasshacker wrote:
| Is Waldo really there? Because I've looked everywhere, and at
| this point I'm a bit concerned that my eyes are going to give
| out before I'm able to find him. That guy sure is a wily fella.
| kylecazar wrote:
| He's really there. I was on the verge of giving up myself.
| kylecazar wrote:
| Figured I'd include a spoiler link for Waldo if anyone's
| tired of looking:
|
| https://floor796.com/#t5l1,459,106
|
| He's in the bathroom stall.
| spopejoy wrote:
| Here's a fun one: find AE3803
| kylecazar wrote:
| https://floor796.com/#t0l2,695,774
|
| Had to look up who that was and then just searched for the
| red hat.
| buybackoff wrote:
| For some time recently, I was zooming in on Bosch's The Garden of
| Earthly Delights. The floor's level of interactivity would be so
| nice there. At least on this floor, I can guess what's going on
| quite reliably. The experience is quite similar at some level
| though. I saw Bosch's originals (or 1-to-1 by size repros) many
| years ago and without zooming in, it was incomprehensible. With
| zoom, the details are overwhelming.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights...
| jmkd wrote:
| Note this digitisation was by a company called Mad Pixel, and
| supported by Google in 2009. It was the first experiment that
| later became the Google Art Project in 2011 (now Google Arts &
| Culture).
| rishabhaiover wrote:
| I love the fact that Steven Seagal made it.
| Freak_NL wrote:
| There is now a neon add for some weird place called 'Hacker
| News'; right between the ones for Dunder Mifflin and Weyland
| Yutani Corp, over by the Catbus, behind that new huge pirate
| ship, but if you hit the Black Mesa ad you've gone too far.
| lossyalgo wrote:
| For the lazy: https://floor796.com/#t1l5,168,967
| utopcell wrote:
| If you're curious: the name alludes to this being the 796th floor
| of a space station.
| croes wrote:
| And the 7th, 9th and 6th letter of the English alphabet are?
| utopcell wrote:
| Ha! I did not notice. Thank you for sharing!
| signorovitch wrote:
| Reminds me of xkcd's "Click & Drag"
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| https://xkcd.com/1110/
| stavros wrote:
| I got inspired by this the other day and made something related,
| though user-drawable:
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| https://pine.town
|
| Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel
| art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.
| doublerabbit wrote:
| Also very cool.
| underlipton wrote:
| What did they do to Muzzy?!
| cod1r wrote:
| This is great and I love it. Very polished work.
| mariopt wrote:
| The artwork looks amazing, is it AI/ComfyUI?
| saagarjha wrote:
| No.
| Kiboneu wrote:
| this is where i'd like to chill when they wake me up from the
| simulation.
| PeterHolzwarth wrote:
| Prior discussions here on HN noted this writeup on how some of it
| works (in Russian):
|
| https://habr.com/ru/companies/floor796/articles/673318/
| cantalopes wrote:
| Well, there goes my carrier data plan
| wowczarek wrote:
| I giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but
| from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving.
| dmead wrote:
| Is this the same author as goontower?
| alexconrad wrote:
| Goofy has a sound clip when you click on it. Are there other ones
| with sound?
| alexconrad wrote:
| Found another one. Duke Nukem 3D Cocoon with a girl. Good
| times!
| yieldcrv wrote:
| How fast this loads is a lost art
| BargirPezza wrote:
| Amazing, real dedication and it looks so good! Have spent some
| time just wandering around and clicking on different characters I
| don't recognize. So fun
| metalman wrote:
| the guy must have started consuming media in the womb and has an
| amazing ability to capture iconic characters and moments with the
| smallest possible numbers of pixles, the proof of that is bieng
| able to identify many familiar characters, but the ones from
| different cultures register as extras and are devoid of
| personality, pattern recognition doing it's thing effortlessly.
| It's very much of our time, and speaks to the need for drama and
| absurdity, and also the role that AI is bieng pushed to fill,
| while showing that for true iconic imagery , human biengs still
| have the edge.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Can we please have a room where Jake Paul and Tate are getting
| humbled in a boxing ring for all eternity.
| jimmySixDOF wrote:
| One of my soft milestone tests for AGI is if this gets reproduced
| in a World Model with Gaussian Splats or whatever it is by then
| that lets you do gameplay walkthrough in first player egocentric
| 3D-6DOF-360 view in XR with some friends till then its just all
| stochastic parrots on word calculators whats the point
| SilverSlash wrote:
| One of the coolest things I've seen this year! A true labor of
| love!
| spaceman_2020 wrote:
| This is one of the best things I've ever seen online
| javiramos wrote:
| This is an internet masterpiece
| cheesepaint wrote:
| Amazing work, but I didn't expect to see Wunschpunsch
| (https://floor796.com/#b2l2,302,256) or Kommisar Rex
| (https://floor796.com/#b3r1,163,852) there. Others mentioned
| Soviet-era characters, which makes me curious about the cultural
| background of the creator.
| jedberg wrote:
| Hacker News shoutout: https://floor796.com/#t1l5,122,735
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