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Hopera, a free musical soothing rhythmic game

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I built this small musical game in Lua, with the LÖVE 2d engine. I initially tried building it in Unity but it was more complicated than expected. I use LÖVE because it allowed to draw every pixel as I wanted. It's free to play on iOS, Android, and even the web.

HN · launched Sep 11, 2026 · 27 upvotes (top 22%) · 1 view

Niche: online board and casual games · 180 launches, 17 in the last 7 days ▼ -19% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Yes It is a lightweight 2D rhythm mini-game built with LÖVE2D/Lua, which can be fully scaffolded and coded with an AI assistant.

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Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 193 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #40 of 194 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 317 days after the earliest competitor.

  • Rhythm Champ · ph · 2026-11-04 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Arclight · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • LEVYRA · ph · 2026-09-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
  • NoSheet · ph · 2026-09-25 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
  • Tuneara · ph · 2026-11-03 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Alsomitra: The Long Glide · ph · 2026-10-01 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Ultimidi · hn · 2026-10-26 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Lovely · ph · 2026-10-04 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.40

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