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This is one of the most fascinating websites I've seen. Both in terms of the work put into it and the sheer fun of exploring levels on your own terms.

How in the... the Super Mario Galaxy level had enemies that respond to the camera location!

Edit: Apparently every dynamic enemy on the map has a hand coded state machine https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/blob/19f83f77c3e77...

I half expected this Show HN to be by Jasper that site's creator, he comments here sometimes.

hi Vito! how've you been?

Not bad! Been playing on some off-grid desert property by Joshua Tree. How's life in pro game dev land treating you?

The creator mentions that site in his "How I made this" video

This is impressive, how was it made? Especially curious about Source games, it really feels like you're running the entire Source Engine on a browser

The author basically reimplemented the Source renderer from scratch:

https://github.com/magcius/noclip.website/tree/master/src/So...

Same goes for every other game.