3D hide-and-seek game inside Van Gogh's Starry Night
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@MandelDuck3.8K views · 60 likes · 16 saves · 7 reposts · Posted Sep 26, 2026 · 0:34 · Interactive
OUR NOTEA first-person 3D scene built from Van Gogh's The Starry Night, with WASD movement and a hint system for spotting twelve cats hidden in the painting. Made in Three.js from a single prompt, per the creator.
THE CREATOR'S POST
Single prompt with opus 5.5
"can you make a 3d game where you walk around and spot cats inside of a van gogh painting? we can start with stary night and its town"
https://mandelduck.com/vincents-cats/THE PROMPT
One-sentence game conceptcan you make a 3d game where you walk around and spot cats inside of a van gogh painting? we can start with stary night and its townMAKE ONE LIKE THIS
Three steps, using what the creators in this index used.- 1 · Copy the prompt
Use the prompt above as your starting point, then change the subject and the style.
HOW OTHERS WROTE THEIRS → - 2 · Direct it like an editor
- Ask for one self-contained HTML file on a fixed 1920×1080 stage.
- Link this video as the reference for pacing and style.
- Send two or three rounds of specific notes.
- 3 · Render it to MP4
A short piece like this can be screen-recorded, or captured frame by frame for exact timing.
TURN AN HTML ANIMATION INTO AN MP4 →
HOW IT WAS MADE
The creator didn't name their tools. Most videos like this are HTML, canvas or SVG animation written by Claude and screen-recorded or rendered to MP4 — how that works.
LOOK
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