OpusSkate
C++ Skate Game by Opus 5.5
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GITHUB · launched Sep 22, 2026 · 40 upvotes (top 21%) · 2 views
Niche: indie video games · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
No Building a 3D skateboarding game in C++ requires custom physics simulation, animation blending, 3D math, collision detection, and low-level graphics rendering.
What it would actually take: A real implementation requires a C++ engine or framework (like Raylib, OpenGL/Vulkan, or custom ECS) integrated with a physics engine like PhysX or Jolt tailored for skateboarding momentum and grind mechanics. The hardest parts are the board/player inverse kinematics, trick state machines, and fine-tuned rigid body physics on curved ramps. This requires experienced game engine programmers and physics/animation specialists.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1603 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #343 of 1604 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 326 days after the earliest competitor.
- Shalltear · github · 2026-10-30 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- skate-3-vita · github · 2026-10-18 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- SkateGM · github · 2026-10-03 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- I made a hockey web game with Opus 5.5, and Gemini Argon optimized it · hn · 2026-10-13 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Shalltear Engine · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- OpusMC · github · 2026-10-17 · 53 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- skate3-ps4 · github · 2026-09-29 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- SK8V · github · 2026-10-09 · 67 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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