doobki · render tests → a game
One scene, four ways of looking at it, then a game.
Look-development that finally became the thing it was auditioning for. A man falls out of the sky and sinks: rendered as pixel art, as smooth vector, and again in pixel art with the camera behind him. Plus a low-poly 3D study, and now the game itself, built on the third-person renderer. Each one is a single HTML file: no build step, no libraries, no network calls.
Views 01-04 are deliberately just visuals: no gameplay, no state, nothing to win. The point was to find out how far the look could be pushed before committing to an engine. View 05 is the commitment.
Doobki
steer the fall · thread the rings · dodge everything
Fall from 6000 units up with the camera over your shoulder. Steer left and right to thread the gold rings (each one grows the combo) and dodge the birds and balloons that break it, then take the splash. Built on the third-person renderer: same raycast sea, same sprite, but the camera pitches down to show you the course, and eases back to the cinematic framing for the entry.
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Skyfall
200×300 buffer · ordered dither · slow-mo
Hand-plotted into a 200×300 pixel buffer, one pixel at a time. A skydiver holds an arch, corrects into a feet-first dive, punches a crown of foam out of the surface, and then time drops to a quarter speed while he sinks into the dark. Bayer-dithered gradients, nearest-neighbour sprite rotation.
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Freefall
resolution-independent · soft gradients
The same fall with the pixels taken away: flowing gradients, soft light shafts, a crisp silhouette. Useful as a control: it shows which parts of the scene were carried by the composition and which were carried by the pixel-art constraint.
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Low-Poly Island
WebGL2 · raw GL, no three.js
An art-style study you can take apart: a procedural island with a day/night cycle and toggles for the things that actually make the style: flat vs smooth normals, wireframe, terrain density. Faceted shading comes from screen-space derivatives, so every triangle reads as one hard plane.
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Skyfall, Third Person
raycast sea plane · one shared camera
View 01 again from over his shoulder, which turns out to need a different renderer entirely: the water is a per-pixel raycast onto a plane, so it has a horizon, the splash rings come out as ellipses, and he shrinks as he sinks away from you. A 384×288 dithered buffer, with the poses drawn at the size they appear so his pixels are the frame's pixels.
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