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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 23h

I'm creating a custom Wikipedia room every day until release - Day 3. Opera houses 🎭

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

I'm creating a custom Wikipedia room every day until release - Day 2. Ice caves 🧊

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

I'm creating a custom Wikipedia room every day until release - Day 1. London Underground stations 🚇

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Turns out that textures and lighting are actually quite important

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I may have got a bit carried away with the bookshelves.

The Library room in The Endless Museum. A towering spiral of bookshelves reaches towards the ceiling between two staircases leading to upper galleries. Smaller book towers and labelled article doorways surround it.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I put a bench in front of Jupiter in case you need a minute.

A small wooden bench faces a large model of Jupiter in a brass ring at the centre of a bright museum gallery. Framed exhibits and doorways labelled with related Wikipedia articles line the walls.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I was trying to get to Ancient Rome. Somehow I'm in a cheese gallery.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Making Wikipedia into a building has involved a surprising amount of worrying about where to put the doors.

A tall open doorway in the Mathematics gallery reveals a large exhibit hall beyond. Smaller arched doors on either side are labelled Number theory and Adelard of Bath.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I've put a door to the tropics in the snow room. Seems only fair.

Snow falls across an outdoor museum landscape with pine trees and mountains. Freestanding article doors surround the exhibits; a door labelled Tropics stands on the right.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

You can play Pong in here. This is not helping me finish making the game.

A playable Pong cabinet in a bright museum gallery. Its screen shows two paddles, a 0–0 score and an E — Play prompt. Photographs of Pong machines and doors to related articles surround it.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I know I made it but I still don't think a door marked Mouthfeel should exist.

A two-storey museum hall for Cheese, with patterned walls, paintings of cheese and a large gramophone. Doors around the upper balcony are labelled Dairy product, Milk, Mouthfeel and Fat.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I assumed the maps were broken. They were fine, they just needed placing before the doors.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Things get placed along the walls in a fixed order, and each one reserves its stretch. For quite a while every wall map ended up on a table instead, because the doors were placed first and used up all the wall.

The France room, a large hall lit from above with a map of France on the wall to the left, a raised terrace with brass letters in the floor, and doors labelled Geography and Flag of France.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I initially skipped the depth reset, and the leftover depth from the current room chopped holes in the next one. Took a while to work that out.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Drawing the next room through a doorway took three passes. Mark the doorway pixels in the stencil buffer, reset the depth inside that mark, then draw the room beyond restricted to the mark.

Looking through a tall open doorway in the Mathematics room into a lit gallery beyond, with doors labelled Number theory and Adelard of Bath either side.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The article about Easter eggs has an Easter egg in it. It's under glass. Press E.

A pale egg under a glass dome on a white plinth in the middle of a barrel-vaulted gallery, lit by shafts of light.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The downside is that if I change the order of the random calls, thousands of rooms quietly rearrange themselves.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every room is generated from a random number generator seeded with the article title, so the Cheese room looks the same for everyone. It's very useful when something goes wrong, as I can go back and get the same layout.

A tall galleried hall in the Cheese room with a central column, a gramophone on a stand, paintings on easels and doors labelled Dairy product and Fat on the upper tier.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

have you got a pic of the ones you didn't use?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

how far back does it send you if you fall?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This is really helpful, thank you for creating it

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

what's the most ridiculous number of wheels you've tried?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's not the only one. Ouroboros, Strange loop and Déjà vu do the same thing, and there are a few more. I'm not going to list them.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

The Recursion room has a door marked Recursion. It goes to the Recursion room.

A doorway labelled Recursion in a burgundy gallery wall, beside an arched window.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Glad it's useful. It takes that room's colour. The fill lights are a fixed pool that get parked inside whichever rooms are visible, and each one picks up its room's tint, time-of-day script and even live weather. So a storm room reads grey through the door of a golden one.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the Toledo War room in my Wikipedia museum is very small and nobody wins it either.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

"from a complicated mess to placing legos" is the whole arc of every procgen project I've done. Good thread.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

a whole lot of doors is a subject close to my heart. My game is basically nothing but doorways so this one got me.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

your PDS decides your gang is such a good hook. Please keep posting this.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

modular facade shaders you can reuse across buildings, smart. Following along, the Turgot map is such a good thing to rebuild.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

can you go in the water or is that a bad idea?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

how long does one of these take you to draw?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

love that you fixed it by hand. Fourteen year old WebGL demos running again is such a good feeling, and this one still looks better than most new stuff.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

how long are you keeping the playtest open?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

how much do you build before going back to the art?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

nice write up. The "make it feel good before gameplay" order is underrated, people bounce off ugly prototypes before they find the fun. Board looks lovely already.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

felt this. I've spent more hours on fog density and key light falloff than on anything the player would call a feature. Fog debugging at 1am is the true jump scare.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

no corridor carving at all is wild, the halls read as authored. I do rooms from a seeded planner and still fight the "every room feels the same" thing, so this is very relevant to my interests.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

the unusual articles list is basically a wing of its own. I built a walkable museum out of Wikipedia and that list is where most people's first wander ends up.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

this is a great idea. I've been building a Wikipedia museum too (theendlessmuseum.com) and overhearing actual people muttering in the exhibits is the bit I never thought of. Would love to see Throng loose in it.

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The Endless Museum

Every article is a room, every hyperlink a doorway. Wander Wikipedia as an endless museum - or race friends through it.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Danke! Genuinely made my day seeing this. If anyone finds a room that looks broken or just weird, tell me, I collect them.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Cheating, mostly! Lights never cross - the shadowed key light only exists for the room you're in, neighbours just get a flat fill that fades up as you get close. And nothing ever stands half in a doorway. The door is a short tunnel drawn once, and only the player walks through it.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Each neighbouring room is only drawn through its own doorway, using the stencil buffer, so you can see through without the two interiors drawing over each other. I wrote it up in more detail here: edwardbonnett.com

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Something people ask about quite a lot: the rooms in the museum actually overlap each other. There's no sensible way to fit every Wikipedia article into one building, so I stopped trying.

Looking through an open archway in the Botany room into a darker gallery beyond, with a painting lit at its far end. Doors labelled Myristica fragrans and Nutmeg stand either side.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Today's wiki race from Lower East Side to Earth has a best time of 28 seconds. Think you can beat it? theendlessmuseum.com #WikiRace #IndieGame

A screenshot of the Earth room in The Endless Museum, showing a large globe in a brass mount on a round plinth. Warm light streams through high windows across a grand hall with statues and labelled Wikipedia doorways.

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

how long did it take you to settle on this one?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

are all of these actually in the game?

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The Endless Museum @theendlessmuseum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

You can walk into Van Gogh’s Wikipedia article. Then explore a museum built from whatever catches your curiosity. Try your favourite artist: theendlessmuseum.com

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