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.
From 2023 article https://www.cartoonbrew.com/tools-of-the-trade/floors796-pav...
The guy was active on Reddit a week ago https://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1pqktaj/new_block_56_...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Garden_of_Earthly_Delights...
- 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.
edit: Ha! Actually one can double-click on objects and get more info about their origin.
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).
Tuna fish, chai tea, Enter the room -> enter “into” the room, French: hui (today) -> aujourd’hui (day of today)
Keyword: pleonasm
Obviously nowhere near as good as Floor796, but if you like pixel art, maybe you'll like my weekend hack.
I am pleased things like this continue to exist on the tinterweb.
Edit: I absolutely did find Waldo! That was fun.
> 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.
I bet there's Waldo hidden somewhere... good luck!
> 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.
Probably somet=ing gone very wrong with the video drivers.
That being said whatever this is… something
