alt.hn

12/27/2025 at 1:13:00 PM

Floor796

 https://floor796.com/

by krtkush

12/27/2025 at 7:17:23 PM

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.

by smusamashah

12/28/2025 at 1:32:06 PM

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.

by csomar

12/28/2025 at 1:54:21 PM

Different constraints produce different results.

by MangoToupe

12/27/2025 at 10:32:11 PM

Thats curious, there are multiple Russian and even Soviet-era characters which I don't think western people know about.

by mapcars

12/28/2025 at 2:17:47 PM

The two language options are English and Russian.

by Hnrobert42

12/29/2025 at 2:02:00 PM

I learned of this site via HN a few years back and someone mentioned that the author must be Russian and mentioned the characters from Kin Dza Dza. A quick search revealed the film is freely available on Youtube with English subtitles. It's a great film and thankful for floor796 in revealing it as well as being an amazing work of art.

by MisterTea

12/27/2025 at 11:39:57 PM

You can click characters to show who they are, as well.

by Rendello

12/27/2025 at 11:38:19 PM

Definitely too many to be random. I think they are all mostly soviet era things, no? So the author is likely an émigré from the USSR.

by mojuba

12/28/2025 at 12:50:47 AM

Why émigré? He is probably Russian.

by cubefox

12/28/2025 at 1:19:03 AM

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.

by PeterHolzwarth

12/28/2025 at 6:46:03 AM

Author is from Minsk, Belarus. This information is in his profile on Artstation

by horpia

12/28/2025 at 7:26:14 AM

I just spotted Steven Segal is munching on a carrot.

by tartoran

12/27/2025 at 5:10:31 PM

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.

by krelian

12/28/2025 at 2:43:26 AM

To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing.

by jofzar

12/27/2025 at 6:40:19 PM

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/

by vitaflo

12/28/2025 at 1:55:34 AM

Silicon Valley (TV show) had a similar themed intro style

by geerlingguy

12/28/2025 at 11:18:24 AM

Ouch, this now looks dated. Society is in another mood...

by swah

12/28/2025 at 9:25:18 AM

The art style reminds me a bit of that of Al Jaffee in MAD magazine.

by Findecanor

12/27/2025 at 8:57:34 PM

Theme Hospital

by InfiniteLoopGuy

12/28/2025 at 10:05:08 AM

That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game.

by pell

12/28/2025 at 2:31:44 AM

The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game

by spopejoy

12/28/2025 at 5:16:28 AM

Looks more like Xcom: UFO Defense

by dilyevsky

12/27/2025 at 7:33:30 PM

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...

by buybackoff

12/28/2025 at 6:50:12 AM

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).

by jmkd

12/27/2025 at 4:37:26 PM

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.

by vjay15

12/28/2025 at 9:41:30 PM

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

by badsectoracula

12/27/2025 at 4:45:58 PM

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.

by p2detar

12/28/2025 at 12:36:17 AM

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).

by lossyalgo

12/27/2025 at 4:49:16 PM

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".

by ForceBru

12/27/2025 at 5:14:30 PM

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

by Jakob

12/27/2025 at 5:15:23 PM

I'm sure I've even heard French people say "au jour d'aujourd'hui"

by umanwizard

12/28/2025 at 12:59:05 AM

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!

by teapot7

12/28/2025 at 7:40:32 PM

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".

by simgt

12/29/2025 at 9:02:02 AM

Also French: je ne sais (I don’t know) → je ne sais pas (I don’t know a step)

by xigoi

12/30/2025 at 9:20:38 AM

And recently even dropping the negation itself while keeping the meaning: “je sais pas”

I never thought about that. Interesting. This negation related cycle is apparently called Jespersen’s cycle and happens in many languages. The English equivalent

I say not -> I “do” not say -> I don’t say. -> ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jespersen%27s_cycle

by Jakob

12/28/2025 at 2:21:15 PM

Lived experience

by Hnrobert42

12/27/2025 at 4:23:08 PM

Thats fun. I like it. Try clicking on naruto :) https://floor796.com/#t2l4,780,732

by AmazingTurtle

12/27/2025 at 4:55:42 PM

Or on Chuck Norris: https://floor796.com/#t3l1,134,205

by toledocavani

12/27/2025 at 7:09:09 PM

Or the black hole https://floor796.com/#t3r3,28,997

by Akronymus

12/28/2025 at 12:27:17 AM

Or the Ninja Turtle to the left of the black hole.

by lossyalgo

12/27/2025 at 10:44:15 PM

Cute. There's that tripedal robot from Interstellar there.

by mrlonglong

12/27/2025 at 4:51:01 PM

So fun! Are there any other easter eggs like this? I've been clicking everywhere and didn't find any

by _kush

12/27/2025 at 5:14:08 PM

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.

by wartijn_

12/27/2025 at 5:20:42 PM

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.

by marcellus23

12/27/2025 at 5:05:57 PM

Not often you see Lexx references: https://floor796.com/#t0l2,597,381

by c-hendricks

12/28/2025 at 9:11:13 AM

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.

by burnt-resistor

12/28/2025 at 12:57:43 AM

Indeed

by lexx

12/27/2025 at 9:30:30 PM

I got inspired by this the other day and made something related, though user-drawable:

https://pine.town

Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.

by stavros

12/28/2025 at 1:24:26 AM

Also very cool.

by doublerabbit

12/27/2025 at 4:40:14 PM

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.

by tux1968

12/27/2025 at 5:03:08 PM

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.

by scrollop

12/27/2025 at 5:39:37 PM

Given that this is hand-crafted by a real artist, introducing AI into it would be a betrayal of the entire concept.

by bovermyer

12/27/2025 at 8:36:05 PM

you're thinking of wrong kind of Ai

by NooneAtAll3

12/28/2025 at 10:03:58 PM

I don't think I am. The wording of the person's post suggests the use of LLMs, not general AI or another form.

by bovermyer

12/27/2025 at 10:11:33 PM

AI != LLM

by deadbabe

12/27/2025 at 8:42:15 PM

Theme Hospital is a thing.

by justsomehnguy

12/28/2025 at 2:20:28 PM

This is one of the best things I’ve ever seen online

by spaceman_2020

12/27/2025 at 7:19:28 PM

Haven't found Waldo yet

Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun.

by kylecazar

12/27/2025 at 7:55:40 PM

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.

by crasshacker

12/27/2025 at 7:59:09 PM

He's really there. I was on the verge of giving up myself.

by kylecazar

12/28/2025 at 5:16:51 PM

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.

by kylecazar

12/29/2025 at 1:11:41 AM

I managed to find him without help - I'm stubborn - but man, did it take me a long time to do it. It didn't help that I was constantly being distracted by some new character grabbing my attention. There's just so much here!

by crasshacker

12/28/2025 at 2:34:14 AM

Here's a fun one: find AE3803

by spopejoy

12/27/2025 at 4:31:27 PM

sites like this make the internet a better place.

by eightturn

12/27/2025 at 8:12:44 PM

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.

by Freak_NL

12/27/2025 at 6:29:18 PM

This sort of thing gives me a nice hit of nostalgia.

I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.

by backtogeek

12/28/2025 at 11:03:23 AM

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.

by metalman

12/28/2025 at 1:22:09 PM

One of the coolest things I've seen this year! A true labor of love!

by SilverSlash

12/27/2025 at 4:31:49 PM

I think it will absorb at least as many hours as doom scrolling, and be much better for me.

by Peteragain

12/27/2025 at 4:35:48 PM

I wish I could show my kid this incredible mega gif. But it's NSFW ;D

by jupin

12/28/2025 at 12:58:33 AM

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.

by cyode

12/27/2025 at 7:56:17 PM

Hopefully your kids aren't working yet, so it's fair game!

by debo_

12/28/2025 at 11:22:21 AM

Maybe their kid is called William and they meant it’s Not Safe for Will.

by latexr

12/28/2025 at 10:10:22 AM

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

by BargirPezza

12/29/2025 at 7:38:03 AM

You can click on characters for context. Was this a feature last year?

Would make a great animated wallpaper.

by maxglute

12/28/2025 at 3:55:47 AM

I giggled at Monkey Island and then I saw the tentacle... but from Half Life. This is a masterpiece and it keeps on giving.

by wowczarek

12/28/2025 at 2:34:22 AM

Well, there goes my carrier data plan

by cantalopes

12/28/2025 at 3:50:44 PM

This is an internet masterpiece

by javiramos

12/28/2025 at 8:47:38 AM

How fast this loads is a lost art

by yieldcrv

12/27/2025 at 8:17:33 PM

If you're curious: the name alludes to this being the 796th floor of a space station.

by utopcell

12/28/2025 at 4:19:39 PM

And the 7th, 9th and 6th letter of the English alphabet are?

by croes

12/28/2025 at 8:51:28 PM

Ha! I did not notice. Thank you for sharing!

by utopcell

12/28/2025 at 4:49:15 AM

Goofy has a sound clip when you click on it. Are there other ones with sound?

by alexconrad

12/28/2025 at 5:02:00 AM

Found another one. Duke Nukem 3D Cocoon with a girl. Good times!

by alexconrad

12/27/2025 at 5:30:21 PM

OMG... stunning maximalism

by chiantiM

12/27/2025 at 4:27:30 PM

This is incredible!

I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck!

by sph

12/27/2025 at 4:34:16 PM

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.

by cmg

12/27/2025 at 10:52:14 PM

This is great and I love it. Very polished work.

by cod1r

12/27/2025 at 6:19:03 PM

This is a work of art. Thank you for sharing.

by paulbjensen

12/27/2025 at 7:44:46 PM

I love the fact that Steven Seagal made it.

by rishabhaiover

12/27/2025 at 4:58:00 PM

So cool. Nice to see Walt and Jesse cooking

by arrty88

12/28/2025 at 4:17:54 AM

Is this the same author as goontower?

by dmead

12/27/2025 at 4:31:43 PM

Nice, this just crashed my entire desktop.

by jnellis

12/27/2025 at 5:00:25 PM

impressive, what's your desktop?

by throawayonthe

12/27/2025 at 5:19:06 PM

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.

by jnellis

12/27/2025 at 5:20:52 PM

Works for me on Win 10, Win 11, Firefox, DDG.

Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.

by justsomehnguy

12/27/2025 at 4:45:18 PM

there's even a HN img reference

by eightturn

12/27/2025 at 11:58:18 PM

this is where i’d like to chill when they wake me up from the simulation.

by Kiboneu

12/27/2025 at 10:28:48 PM

What did they do to Muzzy?!

by underlipton

12/28/2025 at 12:43:12 PM

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

by jimmySixDOF

12/28/2025 at 11:10:36 AM

Can we please have a room where Jake Paul and Tate are getting humbled in a boxing ring for all eternity.

by hermitcrab

12/27/2025 at 9:04:17 PM

[dead]

by LePetitPrince

12/28/2025 at 5:15:02 PM

[flagged]

by edwardtay

12/28/2025 at 5:47:21 PM

Many of these questions are answered in the FAQ on the site. The most important answer is that it’s just one creator as a side project.

by tylervigen

12/27/2025 at 11:42:07 PM

The artwork looks amazing, is it AI/ComfyUI?

by mariopt

12/28/2025 at 12:42:30 AM

No.

by saagarjha

12/27/2025 at 4:23:37 PM

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

by xfour

12/28/2025 at 11:26:23 AM

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.

by latexr