Stacked Game of Life
Details
- External ID
- 47197218
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Stacked Game of Life
- Website domain
- koenvangilst.nl
- Launched
- Feb. 28, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 195
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9420485175202157
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
https://github.com/vnglst/stacked-game-of-life
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- —
- Audience
- —
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- stacked variant of conway's game of life
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is Conway's Game of Life extended into a 3D isometric stack of historical generations, straightforwardly implemented using Three.js or HTML5 2D/3D canvas.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: 3Delight API for implicit surfaces, Blender for 3D rendering, conwaylife.com resources
Concerns raised: Visualization gets tricky with larger hashlife patterns (metacells), Top layer visualization confusing - oscillators look like different patterns from above, Browser compatibility issues (didn't work first time in Chrome/macOS)
Feature requests: Distinguish top layer with different color or outline for top-down viewing, Support for larger hashlife patterns visualization
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 108 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #11 of 109 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 122 days after the earliest competitor.
- life_quests · github · 2026-09-20 · 14 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Threej games · hn · 2026-05-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- I built a website for games that catch my eye · hn · 2025-11-28 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- TicTacToe · github · 2026-09-18 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- hearthlight.github.io · github · 2026-09-28 · 18 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- 2ship2harkinian · github · 2026-09-18 · 33 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- Hallucinate · hn · 2026-05-28 · 442 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- galgame-web-streaming · github · 2026-09-27 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.