Speed Miners
A tiny RTS resource mini-game
Details
- External ID
- 46662399
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Speed Miners
- Website domain
- speedminers.fun
- Launched
- Jan. 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 49
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7911725955204216
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I've always loved RTS games and wanted to make a game similar for a long time. I thought I'd just try and build a mini / puzzle game around the resource gathering aspects of an RTS.Objective: You have a base at the center and you need to mine and "refine" all of the resources on the map in as short a time as possible.By default, the game will play automatically, but not optimally (moving and buying upgrades). You can disable that with the buttons. You can select drones and right click to move them to specific resources patches and buy upgrades as you earn upgrade points.I've implemented three different levels and some basic sounds. I used Phaser at the game library (first time using it). It won't work well on a mobile.
Enrichment
- Theme
- interactive simulations and creative experiments
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- —
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- rts resource mini-game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A simple 2D canvas/HTML5 mini-game focused on mining and refining mechanics can easily be coded in JavaScript or TypeScript in a couple of days with an AI assistant.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Mobile UI scaling issues - buttons outside viewport, game window doesn't use full screen, Text too small to read on phone screens, Game auto-starts with no instructions and is against the clock, Some upgrades cut off on mobile
Feature requests: Separate leaderboard rankings for auto move/auto upgrade vs manual play, Game instructions or tutorial before auto-start, Fix CSS/JS resizing for mobile viewports
Competitors
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Attention rank: #33 of 139 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 72 days after the earliest competitor.
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