3D worlds, games, and experiments, right in your browser
Worlds to walk through, games to play, and experiments that exist to show you what a browser can do. No app, no download, nothing to install.
Worlds and games
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A garden you plant and tend yourself
Fractal Garden
Plant a garden of fractal trees, then watch it live through the years. Choose from seventeen species, each one grown from its own seed so no two are alike, then tend them through spring blossom, summer fruit, autumn color and winter snow. Every tree you plant is still standing when you come back.
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A study of water and weather
High Water
Ninety seconds at the water's edge, beginning on an ordinary bright afternoon. The sky closes over, lightning starts to work along the cloud base, and the surf keeps rising. Please know before you start that the sea does not stay where it belongs.
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Built for the joy of flying through space
Earth Defense
Fly a single ship in orbit above a massive Earth while twelve Martian raiders close on the installations below. There is no fire button to learn: line a raider up in the middle of your view and your guns take care of the rest.
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For Benoit Mandelbrot
The Mandelbrot Set
The most famous shape in mathematics floats in a quiet starfield. Choose a destination on its burning edge, press play, and the auto zoom dives hundreds of billions of times deep, until the numbers themselves run out.
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Where SceneXP gets built
Steve's Home Office
Step inside the little office in Steve's house where every one of these experiences gets built. Peek at the code on the monitor, read the whiteboard, watch for birds on the fence, and please mind the sleeping cat.
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Small business tributes
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For a car buying advocate
John Walker, The Auto Man
Pull up to a dealership desk where John Walker is sitting on the buyer's side of it. Twenty five years of arguing deals down and more than 2,000 cars, in Baltimore or anywhere by Zoom. Tap anyone at the desk to hear their side of it.
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For a neighborhood tire shop
The Interstate Tire Shop
Walk into a 3D tire shop built for Interstate Tire in historic Cockeysville, Maryland. See the car up on the lift, catch the waiting room TV, and stroll Railroad Ave to the 1892 freight depot.
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For a gardening business
The Seed to Seed Garden
Stroll a 3D backyard garden built for Seed to Seed, a home vegetable gardening company. Wander the raised beds, step inside the greenhouse, and meet the gardener.
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For a small business operations consultant
Sunnyvale Jenn Consulting
Look in on the sunny home office of Sunnyvale Jenn Consulting, built for a consultant who untangles the operations that busy founders never find time for. Jenn is at her desk, the week's plan is on the whiteboard, and the birds keep visiting the fence.
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Personal tributes
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Happy Birthday, Jamar!
Jamar's Karaoke Night
It is karaoke night at the corner bar, and the birthday singer is Steve's best friend Jamar. Settle in, follow the rolling lyrics screen, and tap the jukebox to pick what he sings next.
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For Gavin, age eleven
Gavin's Bug Patrol
Every spring, Steve's son Gavin releases ladybugs and praying mantises into the patio plants. Settle in for a close-up of the jasmine, watch the garden change shifts at dusk, and see if you can spot all three mantises.
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For a wonderful instructor
Zumba with Roqui
Step into a joyful 3D Zumba class and say hola to Roqui. Catch the beat, fire up the speakers, and find the disco ball.
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For a family summer memory
Putt Putt with Mom and Dad
Play a 3D round of pirate mini golf in Ocean City, Maryland, built from a favorite summer memory. Board the ship and walk the plank hole.
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In memory of a dad
A Ride on the NCR Trail
Take a quiet walk on a 3D stretch of Maryland's NCR Trail, built for a dad who rode it nearly every weekend. Find the river and listen for the little waterfall.
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What you will find here
The collection wanders on purpose, so it is sorted into three groups above. Here is what each of them holds, and every heading below takes you straight to it.
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Worlds and games
The ones built for their own sake. Defend Earth from a Martian fleet, dive hundreds of billions of times deep into the Mandelbrot set, watch a modelled ocean shoal and break on a measured beach, or plant a garden of fractal trees and tend it through the seasons.
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Small business tributes
Real businesses, rebuilt as places you can visit. A dealership desk with a car buying advocate on the buyer's side of it, a tire shop on historic Railroad Ave with a car up on the lift, a backyard vegetable garden with a greenhouse, and a consultant's sunny home office.
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Personal tributes
Worlds made for a particular person, or to hold on to a particular memory. A quiet trail along the Gunpowder, a karaoke night at the corner bar, a Zumba class, a bug hunt in the jasmine, a round of pirate mini golf.
Every one of them runs in your browser
No app, no download, no account, and nothing to install. Each experience is browser-native HTML, CSS, and JavaScript with Three.js doing the drawing, served from this domain and nowhere else. There are no third-party scripts, no CDNs, and no trackers anywhere on the site. Open a link and you are already inside.
Built for someone in particular
Several of the worlds above began as a gift. Someone knew a person who deserved a world, or a business that deserved to be more than another template website, and told us the story. We still love making those, so if a person or a place came to mind while you were browsing, we would be glad to hear about it.
Bring your own little world
SceneXP is open source under the MIT license, and the shared parts library makes a new experience easier to assemble than you might think. Whatever you would build, we would be delighted to host it.
Read the contributor guide