Launched this week
Expeditione
The Interactive 3D Encyclopedia
349 followers
The Interactive 3D Encyclopedia
349 followers
Created by a single person, Expeditione is an Interactive 3D Encyclopedia built to make learning fun and memorable. Instead of simply reading about a subject, you can enter handcrafted, explorable worlds and discover them through interaction. It runs directly in the browser, with no login, ads, or tracking, and is optimized to stay remarkably lightweight. The first three expeditions are free forever, with free educator resources for classroom use.
Greetings everyone,
I’m Aureon, the solo creator behind Expeditione.
Ancient Egypt is the first major expedition I’ve built. It took me 1,000+ hours of research, reconstruction, 3D modelling, animation, interaction design, writing, and optimization.
It explores 5 handcrafted scenes covering family life, quarrying, temple life, the Nile Delta, and the Pyramids, with interactive elements throughout.
No ads. No login. No popups. No trackers.
It’s free to explore. If you have a look, I’d be glad to hear what you think.
Link : https://expeditione.fun/
I hope you enjoy the expedition.
— Aureon
Edit: I realized I forgot to mention the engineering constraint I set for myself! The landing page and the first 4 scenes of Ancient Egypt are optimized to ~1MB. That includes all the custom 3D models, audio tracks, textures, shaders, and code. I wanted to prove that immersive doesn't have to mean bloated.
Polygon.Camera
@aureon i completely love that you are solo + your own hunter too. let's make you #1 producthunt. just build cool stuff!!!
@yosun 🔥
@aureon Congrats on the launch, Aureon! 1,000+ hours of work really paid off, this looks beautiful. Setting a 1MB constraint for an interactive 3D world with audio and shaders is mind-blowing engineering. Thank you for making it free, accessible, and tracker-free. Wishing you a fantastic launch day!
@vahid_davoudi Thank you very much! You too!
Awesome, I learned a lot about soil!
I can see some of these courses being sold to certain educational establishments.
Congrats on the launch!
@marco_ciavarella Thank you for the kind words Marco. As you pointed out, my future vision is to have classroom passes (without login) so that kids can jump right in and enjoy the worlds. Also, whenever you have the time, do check out Ancient Egypt. I had so much fun making it and I learnt a lot of crazy facts haha!
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
It is a cool idea, would deserve to be launched during the work week to get more attention! :)
+ it could be a good Wikipedia visualisation on each topic! Love this idea.
minimalist phone: reduce your screentime
@aureon aaa, didn't know that they can do this with launches.
@busmark_w_nika haha, me neither
Quarrying as one of the five scenes is an odd and good choice. Most Egypt material jumps straight to pyramids and skips the part where someone had to cut and move the stone, so putting the labor in a scene of its own tells kids more than the monument does. Curious how long a single scene takes to walk through.
@manavsehgal Mmhmm, I actually had my mind blown when I learnt they had to cut, quarry, ship and place it all every 2-3 mins. Those blocks weigh tons! And yet the internet sells us fringe theories, which is why I wanted to show the hard work behind it. As for the time, I'd say anywhere between 10-15 mins as a new visitor? I have lost count of it because I just click 'next' crazily seeing the same thing over and over again across months during development 🤣
Fred
I love how you combined educational aspects with a game and how you recreated life many years ago. I think the atmosphere created is one of a kind and delivers a perfect vibe. What scenes are you planning for the future? I think it would be awesome and a great win, if you would also re-create artificial scenes like from movies like star-wars or harry potter.
@hejsfj Hi, Thank you. I have quite a lot of things brain dumped into future expeditions channel haha, everything from Ancient Civilizations (such as an underground/floating cities) to subsurface ocean of on Saturn's moon! But there is a community voting system live, which is what I'd consider next.
Polygon.Camera
i love that it is now okay to say "created by a single person" (you have no idea how many years i have tried to hide that part about me and my projects because people keep telling me that makes my projects worth less!)
@yosun I fail to understand. How would building something on your own be worthless? It’s like calling your baby worthless before it’s even had a chance to grow.
Do not ponder others' opinions. Take pride in your work, and your work shall speak for itself.
Ideas need time to nurture. Take good care of them.
That's interesting. Did you make those models yourself?
@alexandrmucha Hi, yes. The dioramas and the characters were modelled, rigged and animated by myself.
@aureon Impressive. Good job!
@alexandrmucha Thank you.