Alex Adventures
An illustrated offline adventure, made for my son
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A challenging illustrated offline iPhone platformer built with GPT-6 Astra, with a hero inspired by a photo of my son. Explore 20 worlds, dodge enemy fire and face individual bosses. Hardcore gives you just three health points. Think you can finish it? Free, with no ads or in-app purchases. Custom characters from photos are in experimental development.
PH · launched Sep 18, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 11%) · 0 views
Niche: casual mobile games · 461 launches, 67 in the last 7 days ▼ -8% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Action Games
- Adventure Games
- OpenAI Day
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More like this: all 461 launches in casual mobile games →
Could you build this?
Yes A 2D mobile platformer with 20 levels and basic enemy/boss mechanics can be readily built and vibe-coded using standard web/mobile game frameworks like Phaser or React Native/SwiftUI with SpriteKit.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 116 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 117 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 272 days after the earliest competitor.
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