Hey all! I’m working on a multiplayer browser game called Gnome Chat: a social 3D experience where players load into a shared scene as gnomes to hang out, talk, and explore whimsical spaces. It’s built in Three.js, with WebRTC for voice chat and socket.io for multiplayer networking.
The MVP is already live, you can try it here:
I’m looking to move fast and would love to bring on freelancers or contract help to push the beta forward over the next few weeks. Specifically:
Help needed:
Level Design Designing 3-5 more cozy, low-poly 3D spaces for players to explore. Things like gnome castle, forest clearings, weird sci-fi glades, trippy desert.
Interactive UI/UX Features Things like a profile creation module that has a three.js scene with your gnome where you can edit your gnome, profile, etc.
Optimization & Performance Polish Best practice improvements on game performance on different devices or overall code quality of the game.
About the project:
Built fully in-browser. No installs, no accounts needed.
Vibes are whimsical, slightly surreal, and intentionally lo-fi.
Intention is to make a beautiful, cool, hangout space for casual chats.
Im looking to hire multiple folks. Some just for pure three.js artistry (level design) as well as more technical folks to help with performance or other application specific stuff.
If this sounds like something you’re interested, feel free to DM me here or drop a comment. I really would appreciate a portfolio link to help get a vibe of your working experience as well as art style.
i made similar virtual hang space during covid and bet you would find mozilla’s old project Hubs interesting.
shoot me an email, would be fun to chat for real - hi@spencercappiello.com
As a three.js and web developer, I can help you for performance optimization, third person controller, environment configuration, loading optimization, UI improvement, socket.io and webRTC improvement, etc.