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The button wasn't showing up in Chrome on Windows, but when I moved the tag to just after the </canvas>, gave it a z-index:2 and removed that display:none, I could click it.

Then the awesomeness began.

Interesting, I managed to jump around and launch myself into the heavens, fumble through a maze which shot me flying to a pyramid... then appeared to glitch as I kept flying into the heavens.

Hah nice you got past the maze... the flying bit is actually quite long (you fly for > 1 minute) ... there's a very trippy bit in the flying audio that I wanted to reach, where it mellows out quickly and drops a beat (that's when you also drop...)

I thought that was a glitch too, until the beat dropped. Nice work!

I don't know about anyone else- but I got extremely nauseous playing this- physically nauseous, especially in the maze with all those closeup walls. I think a mix of the FOV and graphics caused this. Perhaps also the mix of the bad music.

I don't mean to offend the creator, it's just that I don't get this kind of nausea from Minecraft or other FPS's, something is amiss here.

EDIT: The small FOV thing is a real issue : http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/9.393496-Field-o...

mouse cursor trapping is glitchy, I can't seem to look around without my view snapping back to the floor..

Chrome on OS X

Same. And if you escape the mouse, it allows you to look, but gets even more glitchy.

Very nice. I got to the end (I think? I was send back to a screen with the album title), but only found about half the songs.

You did! I figured if someone made it all the way to the pyramid, they deserve to win. If you're a bit OCD as I can be, there's a 'moon door' in the pyramid that lets you drop down and keep searching.

For the record you have to allow fullscreen for anything to happen.... took me a while.

Very nice and I love Rustie. Well done!

May I ask how you landed this gig?

I run playfuljs.com - warp just got in touch to see if I could build something cool for their next album!

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