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.
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GITHUB · launched Sep 23, 2026 · 39 upvotes (top 22%) · 50 views
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- game
- ghibli
- glsl
- procedural-generation
- procedural-graphics
- shaders
- +4 more
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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 : 421 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #89 of 422 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 323 days after the earliest competitor.
- koi-pond-garden · github · 2026-09-27 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.52
- sakura-fantasy · github · 2026-10-04 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- seijaku · github · 2026-09-16 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- random-city · github · 2026-09-09 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- sakuragaoka-station · github · 2026-09-25 · 85 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- skill-create-tactics-threejs-sprite · github · 2026-11-01 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- cycle · github · 2026-09-11 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- golden-temple · github · 2026-10-15 · 79 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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