summer-cycle
A Studio Ghibli / Makoto Shinkai style cycling game in Three.js. Toon-shaded Japanese countryside with four times of day - every mesh, texture and sound generated in code.
Details
- External ID
- 1382719908
- Source
- GITHUB
- Company
- —
- Product
- summer-cycle
- Website domain
- github.io
- Launched
- Sept. 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 39
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.776325903151422
- Tags
- game, ghibli, glsl, procedural-generation, procedural-graphics, shaders, threejs, toon-shading, web-audio, webgl
- Fetched at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 27, 2026, 5:02 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle games and learning toys
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- procedurally generated cycling game for web browsers
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Partial A web prototype with Three.js is vibe-codeable, but fully procedural toon shaders, procedural audio synthesis, and cohesive Ghibli/Shinkai art direction generated entirely in code require advanced creative shader and graphics engineering.
What it would actually take: Built with Three.js, custom GLSL shaders (cel-shading, rim lighting, atmospheric perspective, procedural water), and the Web Audio API for synthesized ambient sound. The hard parts include writing hand-tuned procedural mesh generation algorithms (roads, trees, Japanese architecture) and custom GLSL lighting passes that run performantly at 60 FPS in the browser without pre-baked assets. Requires creative coding and graphics programming expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 145 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #37 of 146 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 316 days after the earliest competitor.
- koi-pond-garden · github · 2026-09-27 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- seijaku · github · 2026-09-16 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- cycle · github · 2026-09-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- random-city · github · 2026-09-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- sakuragaoka-station · github · 2026-09-25 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- MicroState · hn · 2026-01-21 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- red-sand-rally · github · 2026-09-10 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- 3D Mahjong, Built in CSS · hn · 2026-02-22 · 138 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.