I made a WWI dogfight game that runs in the browser
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Hello, this is one of my new games, developed with my own custom game engine. A lot of it was enabled by the latest AI models like Opus or Astra, I feel like I can finally express myself without being bogged down in asset work or programming. I hope you enjoy it :)
HN · launched Sep 25, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · 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?
Yes Browser-based 3D/2D flight games can be built quickly with Three.js or Babylon.js using AI coding prompts, as noted by the creator who explicitly used models like Opus to build it.
Discussion
6 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Historical inaccuracy of fighter pilots wearing parachutes in WWI
Feature requests: Remove parachutes for historical accuracy, Add black-and-white cinematic filter mode
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 837 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #460 of 838 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 322 days after the earliest competitor.
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