Vibe-coding video games with Claude (Day 14: Tetris)
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I used to run a flash games website (SWF files) years ago. I've made a few games of my own. I'm also an avid gamer and love to play games of all kinds.I'm also a software engineer, and a few days ago I decided I wanted to run a games website again. So I bought the domain gamevibe.us and with the help of Claude I've been vibe-coding one video game every day since.Happy to answer questions, take feedback, etc
HN · launched Apr 27, 2026 · 7 upvotes (top 61%) · 1 view
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
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 380 launches in browser-based video games →
Could you build this?
Yes Browser-based casual 2D games like Tetris can be generated from scratch in Canvas, React, or vanilla JavaScript using modern AI coding tools in a single session.
Discussion
3 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Sound loop is too fast and too short
Feature requests: Show prompts used to create each game, Improve sound design/loop timing
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 344 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #215 of 345 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 180 days after the earliest competitor.
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- I'm organizing a vibe coding game dev competition · hn · 2026-04-11 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Vibe-coded Steam, but in the browser · hn · 2026-05-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- Daily vibe-coding video games, day 33: Tower Defense (single prompt) · hn · 2026-05-16 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- AI-built browser games, collected in one place · hn · 2026-10-20 · 40 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Sedon · hn · 2026-06-02 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I made a Mario Galaxy game with Claude Code and Three.js in 53 days · hn · 2026-04-01 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.50
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