I like that this is on the front page and there are no comments. I imagine because everyone is busy exploring and didn't yet go back to the comments to see what people think. Good sign!
LorenDB [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well, clearly you and I have made it out alive :)
SamBam [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I only managed to get out once I had earned all 9 badges...
ebipaul5194 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Where I can see the badges
swyx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
ah so you havent discovered the secret 10th badge yet, have you
onehair [3 hidden]5 mins ago
clearly xD
latexr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Badge Guide (to avoid spoilers, encoded with rot13¹):
* Cannonball!: Tb ba gur qvivat obneq va gur cbby. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Treasure Hunter: Teno n zrgny qrgrpgbe gura frnepu arne gur yrsg fvqr bs gur ibyyrlonyy svryq. Abegujrfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Goal!: Fpber n tbny jvgu gur fbppre onyy. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* S'more Please: Teno n znefuznyybj sebz gur ohpxrg naq chg gurz va gur ovt sver. Gnxrf nobhg gra frpbaqf. Abegurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Cat Person: Crg gur png va gur ubhfr. Abegujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Take a Seat: Fvg ba gjb punvef.
* Slide!: Tb ba gur ovt fyvqr. Rnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Beachcomber: Svaq nyy gur frnfuryyf.
* Green Thumb: Jngre gur irtrgnoyrf. Fbhgujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
Is there anything to the weird book in the treehouse or is it just for flavor? It seems to be alluding to something but I can't figure it out.
krackers [3 hidden]5 mins ago
There's mention of the cave and a "convergence point". I tried looking all around the cave, but there doesn't seem to be anything there (although you can find the drawings on the walls)
Edit: I looked at the source though and I don't see anything else clickable in the cave... No hidden secret badge either, maybe it is just for ambiance.
notsylver [3 hidden]5 mins ago
There's also a locked door in one of the buildings, but I couldn't figure out what either mean if anything. It would be cool if the radio was used for something though
krackers [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yeah I saw that too, but the list of all accessible rooms is also in the code and the only scenes I see are
It would be really cool if there were some secrets, but alas it appears not (unless it's obfuscated in the source as well)
nickvec [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Why not encode the badge names as well in rot13?
mh- [3 hidden]5 mins ago
They've been encoded twice for extra protection.
latexr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Because then you’d need to decode the full message and might read something you didn’t mean to. This way you can decode just the individual ones you want.
The badge names aren’t secret, they’re available in the book in the house even before you unlock them.
steve_adams_86 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The encoding is too advanced
quantummagic [3 hidden]5 mins ago
With Firefox, moving the cursor is really unresponsive and difficult, at least with my touch-pad. Taking many swipes to move even a little bit in each direction. It's a much more enjoyable experience with Chrome.
testfrequency [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is why I could never commit to a Gecko based browser. There’s just too many daily sites I don’t have the patience to debug if it’s me or them.
maccard [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I've used Firefox as a daily driver for 20 years now (that's terrifying to say). I have to switch to another browser about once a month (although at a previous job I had to use $INTERNAL_WEBSITE in edge permanently). I have 0 issues with daily sites
testfrequency [3 hidden]5 mins ago
20 years of Firefox consistent use is actually impressive. Thank you for your service!
maccard [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I was indoctrinated as a teenager. A friends older brother was using it when he showed me World of Warcraft (not a euphamism) and I went home and downloaded it and never looked back.
I've contributed to a bunch of OSS, but for some reason never firefox.
TonyStr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Haha, this is hardly a daily site, is it? I can't remember the last time I experienced a firefox-specific browser issue before this. 95%+ of my issues usually come from ublock
testfrequency [3 hidden]5 mins ago
No doubt, OP’s site is niche (and very cool!), but between weird graphical rendering I’ve experienced in the past with Firefox and WebGL, among a number of just flat out broken forms - I just gave up.
I want Gecko to succeed as Chromium being a bully in the web space has been unfortunate, though I’m even more rooting for Ladybird.
Orygin [3 hidden]5 mins ago
No issue on FF Macos with a touchpad
ForHackernews [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Designed For Chromenet Explorer 6.0
rendaw [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Me too, mouse.
johnfn [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is so good! Using mouse motion as a control scheme is particularly genius - how did no one think of this before? I particularly like the points where the mouse control is taken away from you, i.e. when you float downstream, or when you go down a slide. It's also particularly genius how the mouse can 'teleport' around the screen (i.e. when you go into a door and come out somewhere else).
This idea could even be taken further - it would be really cool to have terrain that is more difficult to traverse. I'm also intrigued by the lack of walls. I think something like a hedge maze would be really fun!
KerrickStaley [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love this! It reminds me of https://cursordanceparty.com/ which was built by a friend about 15 years ago and is still online :)
tikimcfee [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I had fun on the internet again. Thank you internet people <3
chrisshroba [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is such a breath of fresh air. I feel like I'm back on Club Penguin!
accCer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It was fun rick rolling you all on the piano. Vibe coded a little script that would play all kinds of melodies including rick roll. I eventually attracted a whole audience of cursors emoji reacting to it.
victorbjorklund [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Really cool. Sucks that they have to have the cookie banners though. I feel like this could have been done without user tracking in that way.
danielrmay [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Brilliant. If you needed proof the internet is still alive, here you go. I feel like Neal's creations are the result of creatively iterating on "what if" and "why not".
rohitpaulk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nice one. Pleasantly surprised that this has nothing to do with Cursor the IDE
lacoolj [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Lol Zed > Cursor but this Cursor > Zed
hadrien01 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm really watching 12 Angry Men through a small window in a wonderfully cute browser game, I love it!
jbombadil [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I think there's a case for a corporate class action lawsuit against Neal for employee productivity loss every time every time a new game is published.
> There is an urban myth that the release of Dragon Quest III caused a law to be passed in Japan banning the sale of Dragon Quest games or video games in general except on certain days such as weekends or national holidays. When III was released in Japan, over 300 schoolchildren were arrested for truancy while waiting in stores for the game to be released. The rumor claims there was a measurable dip in productivity when a Dragon Quest game was released and although muggings of Dragon Quest titles became so widespread that there were hearings in the Japanese Diet, no law was ever passed.
Aeolun [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Arrested for truancy?
LeoPanthera [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Truancy is a crime in many countries, including the USA.
buzzerbetrayed [3 hidden]5 mins ago
An offense, sure. But it’s not a “crime” in the US.
thayne [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Not for the student. But at least in some states, parents can potentially face jail time if their children miss enough school.
portmanteur [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Kamala Harris bragged about enforcing this law against parents in California. That’s the only way that I know that it’s an actual law that gets enforced because I had never heard of laws like this before, and I grew up in US public schools in the South.
Gigachad [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I seem to remember some similar discussion about when google put pacman in the google doodle.
0x3444ac53 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Lmao it's blocked on my corporate wifi
echelon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That's a crime. Your HR/IT are certifiably not fun.
swyx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
dont make them the scapegoats. who was it that said "behind every rule on that wall is an idiot who made it necessary"
only-one1701 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Found the manager
andrew_lettuce [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Never Let common sense and trust do the job when another policy in the employee handbook can do the job!
Nautman [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I think it's incredible that you can feel a human connection with someone on the other side of the world purely by moving your cursors together. Just had a "game" of soccer with random people.
Well done, Neal!
nzeid [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm a huge neal.fun fan but I still worried that this was some scammy LLM coding YouTube clickbait.
Love the joystick for mobile users.
TheGRS [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well this is one of the most adorable things I've seen in a while. Thank you for sharing a little joy. So many little details I love, falling off the waterfall, the cursor size fading into the background, the flashlight in the cave. Haven't explored it all but going to share this right away.
ggambetta [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is so well made! In the car racing track there's an overpass, and the cursor correctly Z-orders depending on whether you're coming from the upper or lower part of the track. Respect.
deweywsu [3 hidden]5 mins ago
SO much better than the metaverse, at 1/1000000th the cost!
ebipaul5194 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nice game this is my first if able to add name that will be grate
bhresko1 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I absolutely love this. Kind of gives me Club Penguin vibes.
jborichevskiy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I got taken back to Club Penguin as well. Especially clicking into the cave or treehouse and getting transported into a little side pocket of the map. Amazing work!
dtmooreiv [3 hidden]5 mins ago
100%, briefly playing this brought me right back to that for a second. I'm glad others felt that same vibe.
ebbi [3 hidden]5 mins ago
So much fun! I ended up playing beach volleyball with a bunch of people from around the world! :D excellent!
fatthor123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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ebbi [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Unfortunately it's the start of my work day so I had to force myself to close the tab! Will give it another go after work...
SamBam [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Find treasure hunting equipment on the beach...
ultratalk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Strangely enough, when I enter the "convergence point" book, my cursor gets an American flag, even though it wasn't American before. Has anyone else seen this?
That's awesome! It seems like all the rooms are accessible, but the football area is a bit laggy; the interaction feels like there's a lot of delay.
kang [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I saw this experiment decades ago on the internet and it was to a music concert, i always wanted to do a cursor moshpit
tokioyoyo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Reminded me of Club Penguin days.
tschwimmer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Does anyone know how he is implementing country detection? I'm certain it's not GeoIP since my current IP address (and physical location) is different than the country it's showing me from.
GeoIP services can sometimes be wrong, they are essentially just lookup tables for IP subnets. I have a VPS in the Netherlands which most GeoIP providers detect as being in Czechia, for example. I assume whichever one the site is using just has the wrong country listed for your IP.
jp0d [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's the same for me. I'm in Australia and on my work laptop I'm connected to an American VPN. It's showing my location as USA. I was wondering how it's detecting the country.
asimovDev [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love the cave paintings of cursor cavepeople
RugnirViking [3 hidden]5 mins ago
pretty hard to click through the cookie consent form because the browser hijacks the mouse and doesnt let it move to the right place. ended up using tab to click through it.
pred_ [3 hidden]5 mins ago
And the cookie consent form is one of those that require you to click a gazillion toggles. Hasn't it been established now that opt-out must be no harder than opt-in?
RugnirViking [3 hidden]5 mins ago
the law unambiguously says that, yes. However, companies these days seem to respond to enforcement, not the text of the law. They are all using the same few cookie banner libraries/providers, so that they have herd protection (if the eu wants to crack down on it, it has to do it to hundreds/thousands of companies simultaneously). It seems neal chose that route also.
lucy_hnatchuk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
genuinely had a blast,felt like being a kid on a playground again.
zhainya [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This probably would have been fun if it worked.
latexr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Clearly it is working for many people. Perhaps if you share your setup and what exactly is the issue you’re facing, someone may have a suggestion. “It doesn’t work” is just about the worse “bug report” one can make.
janmagnusdev [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Anyone else having performance problems?
ceroxylon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
When I see the domain of a post is neal.fun, I instantly get a huge grin because I know I am about to be delighted. Thank you Neal! The beach yurt with the mushroom soup was a hilarious touch.
rollyboo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
A really enjoyable journey ;) Felt like a kid again, cheers!
idk1 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well, that was absolutely delightful. What a tonic.
0xferruccio [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Incredibly well done by Neal as usual!! Always has new fun experiments that are always completely new concepts
only-one1701 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
He's done it again folks
Jordan-117 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Weirdly, this seems to kill my wifi connection after a minute or so (Firefox on Linux).
topherjaynes [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well, lads, 10 laps, been a day, going to sleep.
throw5 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I really had fun with this one. You know what would make it even cosier? Being able to choose a small avatar for ourselves. The mouse pointer as your icon feels a very impersonal at the moment. Having avatars would make it feel more like we're all hanging out together in this wonderland.
stronglikedan [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It's not what you asked for, but right click to choose an enhanced icon. (EDIT: Oops that appears to just be a temporary emoticon)
devilbunny [3 hidden]5 mins ago
You can put the hat on. It's in the main camp building in a bedroom. Your cursor will be wearing a hat from then on.
ZeWaka [3 hidden]5 mins ago
You can also put other clothes on, like sunglasses and shorts.
devilbunny [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Can you don multiple items? Didn't try.
krackers [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yeah you can. You buy them with seashells.
eranation [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Just spent 20 minutes of my life, I don't want them back, was worth every second.
lacoolj [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Bug report. If i click a book on the phone my pseudo cursor goes away! :(
nickvec [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The depth of this project is amazing. So many details that you can click into!
qainsights [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I thought cursor.com camp :)
dakolli [3 hidden]5 mins ago
NO AI !
ygyooo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That is so interesting!
bovermyer [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I loved the impromptu dance party I had in this with a bunch of people just bouncing on the stage.
kami23 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This reminds me of the old internet for some reason I can't really nail down, but maybe the club penguin-ess of it.
greengreengrass [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Came to say the say thing. Strong Club Penguin feeling as soon as I saw that “off duty” sign on the lifeguard tower
null_ptr1 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Ok, that's super cute. Dance on the dance floor!
latexr [3 hidden]5 mins ago
For the beach volleyball, aim to click only when the ball is in its downward trajectory.
deviantony [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love Neal's creations so much !
thatguymike [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Well this is incredibly joyful, well done.
xnx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Any tips for getting the right-click menu to work with a touchpad?
I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.
52-6F-62 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Click + hold. Then move onto an option
xnx [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Argh. No luck.
52-6F-62 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
:(
benjian [3 hidden]5 mins ago
coolest website i've seen in a while! absolutely loving this!
darshanmakwana [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is awesome! Where can I find the music from the DJ booth? I can listen to that all day
WillieCubed [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The art style here is really charming. Thanks for the whimsy today!
buremba [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I don't usually like my cursor to be hijacked but man, I like this one.
parentheses [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Legit first post I've wanted to upvote in a long time.
asadm [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I wonder whats the multiplayer stack here. I haven't looked yet.
tiffanyh [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Cool, but wow - my iPhone heats up super fast while on that site.
antdke [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That was a lot of fun. Brought back some nostalgia :)
nerdsniper [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The last seashell is eluding me. Otherwise I got all the badges.
lbebber [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Near the title sign, on the center of the camp, is where I found the last one I missed
fatthor123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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_air [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Grab a metal detector to the left of the volleyball court. Then hold it near the bottom left edge of the court
SamBam [3 hidden]5 mins ago
You need to stop spamming this message. This isn't Reddit.
spking [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Touch virtual grass
GrifMD [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That was delightful, what more can I say?
huseyinkeles [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Really love all his work!
Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.
structuredPizza [3 hidden]5 mins ago
We have achieved world peace, fanks Neal :)
mindwork [3 hidden]5 mins ago
neal.fun is the bestest place on the internet
wg0 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I thought its the 60 billion dollars one.
neurowave [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Nice use of Rive!
hmokiguess [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Sorry, what's Rive?
neurowave [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Interactive engine for building apps, games, products with lots of motion https://rive.app
hmokiguess [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks! Didn’t know about it, looks fun
melonpan7 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It even works on mobile, brilliant.
knight_47 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is so neat!
madebysnacks [3 hidden]5 mins ago
So engaging! Made me smile the entire time
SlackingOff123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I can't get the 17th shell :(
alstonite [3 hidden]5 mins ago
SPOILER
the two that are hard to find are 1. by the river on the far left and 2. at the main spawn point
bl4ckneon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
One is kinda half hidden behind a tree on the far right and another one is next to the starting sign. The rest are on the beach area and very slightly off the beach area
fatthor123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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SlackingOff123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
No, I don't think so.
andrethegiant [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Absolutely incredible. Well done Neal
biosubterranean [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is great
BrunoBernardino [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Remember to have fun, people!
dartharva [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Genuinely amazing!
bitwize [3 hidden]5 mins ago
When I was a teenager we had the Living Books edition of Arthur's Teacher Trouble on CD-ROM as part of a "multimedia kit". Every page had short animations that would play by clicking on random things with your cursor, in addition to following along with the story, clicking on single words to hear them pronounced and spelled, etc. It was incredible and paved the way for similar phenomena like clickable Easter eggs in Homestar Runner cartoons.
This reminded me of that.
wellthisisgreat [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Cursor brethren, why y u no join me on my pink flamingo expedition
nkmnz [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This was fun!
dadima [3 hidden]5 mins ago
nice fun game
arikrahman [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm happily disappointed this has nothing to do with a certain electron based code editor fork.
peyo25 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Fun! Thanks!
dylkil [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Weirdly i got slight motion sickness from this
mattlondon [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yeah same here - unexpected!
hmokiguess [3 hidden]5 mins ago
awww man that was fun!
lanewinfield [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Really putting the "fun" in "Neal.fun." Yet another amazing work by Neal Agarwal.
subpar [3 hidden]5 mins ago
firefly! iykyk
ondrek [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This is the reason I love Hckrnews.
fatthor123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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botzi2001 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I think this you need to take the metal detector from the beach and search in the area
fatthor123 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
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frankfrank13 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
brother how many times are you gonna comment that
forsakenharmony [3 hidden]5 mins ago
please don't re-implement mouse movement, this would work perfectly fine without and now it just feels really bad to use because my sensitivity is fucked
sgtlaggy [3 hidden]5 mins ago
My mouse is set to 400 DPI, acceleration off (libinput flat profile), and default (0) sensitivity (range -1.0 - 1.0, no change at 1.0). Had similar settings on Windows, games have crazy high default sensitivity but websites like this have extremely low sensitivity. I had to crank my DPI up to 2000 to make it usable and 4000 to be comfortable and roughly match desktop settings, but this also made the cursor extremely unwieldy when pausing the game.
This and volume control are my biggest gripes.
dag11 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The soul of this game requires that your cursor can go "behind" things (like trees, or partially submerged in water), can have subtle nudges to keep you on paths and add friction when in water, and also to be able to take full control of your cursor for the lazy river etc!
Macha [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yeah, whatever bug they have with this affected me two, was swinging my mouse across most of my desk to move any distance whatsoever.
duderific [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I noticed this on Safari, but when I switched to Chrome it seemed fine.
asadm [3 hidden]5 mins ago
except thats the whole point of this game. mouse movement needs to be controlled by the game here!
HN.zip
* Cannonball!: Tb ba gur qvivat obneq va gur cbby. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Treasure Hunter: Teno n zrgny qrgrpgbe gura frnepu arne gur yrsg fvqr bs gur ibyyrlonyy svryq. Abegujrfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbfvgvba.
* Goal!: Fpber n tbny jvgu gur fbppre onyy. Fbhgurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* S'more Please: Teno n znefuznyybj sebz gur ohpxrg naq chg gurz va gur ovt sver. Gnxrf nobhg gra frpbaqf. Abegurnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Cat Person: Crg gur png va gur ubhfr. Abegujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Take a Seat: Fvg ba gjb punvef.
* Slide!: Tb ba gur ovt fyvqr. Rnfg sebz gur fgnegvat cbvag.
* Beachcomber: Svaq nyy gur frnfuryyf.
* Green Thumb: Jngre gur irtrgnoyrf. Fbhgujrfg arne gur fgnegvat cbvag.
¹ https://rot13.com
Edit: I looked at the source though and I don't see anything else clickable in the cave... No hidden secret badge either, maybe it is just for ambiance.
The badge names aren’t secret, they’re available in the book in the house even before you unlock them.
I've contributed to a bunch of OSS, but for some reason never firefox.
I want Gecko to succeed as Chromium being a bully in the web space has been unfortunate, though I’m even more rooting for Ladybird.
This idea could even be taken further - it would be really cool to have terrain that is more difficult to traverse. I'm also intrigued by the lack of walls. I think something like a hedge maze would be really fun!
> There is an urban myth that the release of Dragon Quest III caused a law to be passed in Japan banning the sale of Dragon Quest games or video games in general except on certain days such as weekends or national holidays. When III was released in Japan, over 300 schoolchildren were arrested for truancy while waiting in stores for the game to be released. The rumor claims there was a measurable dip in productivity when a Dragon Quest game was released and although muggings of Dragon Quest titles became so widespread that there were hearings in the Japanese Diet, no law was ever passed.
Well done, Neal!
Love the joystick for mobile users.
I two-finger tap, but the menu immediately disappears.
Check out the Space Elevator or Size of Life too.
the two that are hard to find are 1. by the river on the far left and 2. at the main spawn point
This reminded me of that.