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Valley Run

New Game for iPhone/iPhone Duo! Fold. Tilt. Survive!

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Valley Run is a marble game you play by folding or tilting your phone. Built for the iPhone Duo, it turns the hinge into the controller: open and close it to reshape the valley and roll your marble to the finish. Play 70 hand-built courses across 7 worlds, chase Game Center leaderboards for score, speed, and fewest folds, paint your own marble in the Marble Studio, and design your own levels with music that you can send to friends to race.

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PH · launched Oct 17, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 23%)

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Could you build this?

No Developing a 70-level marble physics game tuned specifically for a non-existent/hypothetical hardware form factor ('iPhone Duo' hinge controller) requires specialized custom game engine physics and nonexistent hardware APIs.

What it would actually take: Requires Unity, Unreal, or Apple SceneKit/Metal to implement rigorous rigid-body marble rolling physics across dynamic deformable meshes. Developing bespoke hinge-angle sensing mechanics demands native hardware SDK access, hardware simulation tooling, and extensive level design and 3D modeling expertise.

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Other products that read as similar to this one : 336 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #69 of 337 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.

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