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Hey thank you! I am glad you enjoyed it, and picked up on the Zelda feel. I was imagining something Zelda-like aesthetically. I'm glad the game was on the easy side! My last entry seemed to be too hard! I'll find a sweet spot eventually. :) I'm also glad you enjoyed the different camera angles! I was very excited about the top down hedge section.

To get stuff to run as well as I can in the browser I do the following:

• Use GLES2. I think I've seen GLES3 work in Firefox, but it seems busted in Chrome. Unfortunately GLES2 doesn't look nearly as nice and has limited features, but it runs way better in browsers.
• I try to keep vertex counts and draw calls low. So for example, the grass in the game is using multi-meshes, and I'll often combine objects into a single mesh to save draw calls like the pillars and walls are merged together. I believe all the hedges are just one single mesh.
• I try to keep collision shapes as simple as possible. I think pretty much every collision in this project is either a simple box shape, a capsule, or a cylinder shape. You get less nice collisions, but much better performance. With a sphere character like this, I think it works fine.
• Finally, there are ways to reduce the number of materials. I often use a single image with a color palette that most meshes share, and then shrink the UV's to the color I want to use. I started out just using solid colors, but now I make each square of the palette a gradient to get some variation.

Hope some of that helps! I'm still learning!