Draw Me a River
Doodle a creature, pass the level
Details
- External ID
- 1262826
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- Draw Me a River
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Sept. 29, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 3
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.8905013897797733
- Tags
- Indie Games, Artificial Intelligence, Games
- Fetched at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 30, 2026, 1:01 a.m.
Description
Draw anything: legs, wheels, a blob. The game reads your doodle as a skeleton, an AI learns a gait for it in seconds right in your browser, and real physics decides whether it gets across. Hollow shapes pop on spikes, heavy things sink, and no single drawing beats all 11 puzzle levels, so every failure is a hint. Plus a level designer, ghosts of your last run, and share links to race friends. Free, no sign-up.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie puzzle and logic games
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- doodle puzzle game for mobile players
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Real-time in-browser gait synthesis that converts arbitrary 2D doodles into physical skeletons and optimizes locomotion within seconds requires sophisticated reinforcement learning or physics-based trajectory optimization running on WebGL/WebAssembly.
What it would actually take: Built using WebAssembly with a 2D physics engine (like Box2D) paired with a specialized reinforcement learning or evolutionary algorithm (e.g., CMA-ES) running via WebGPU. The hard part is skeletonization of freeform drawings and training stable, lifelike locomotion policies in under 5 seconds inside a constrained browser sandbox. Requires advanced computer graphics, robotics kinematics, and RL optimization expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 128 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #10 of 129 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 310 days after the earliest competitor.
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