I Recreated Encarta's MindMaze
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You can check the game here: https://select.supply/game/mindmaze. Curious to learn your feedback. I personally loved the game so much!
HN · launched Apr 20, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 72%) · 0 views
Niche: browser-based educational games · 34 launches, 3 in the last 7 days ▼ -50% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Education
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Recreating a 2D tile/maze exploration game with trivia popups is a classic web game project readily built with HTML5 Canvas, React, or Phaser.
Discussion
8 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Mind Maze (original game being reimagined), First-person dungeon crawlers with random encounters, RPGs with encounter systems
Concerns raised: Gen AI-generated images lack spatial consistency and thematic coherence, Isometric perspective doesn't align with orthogonal direction labels, Trivia questions trigger too frequently on every move, causing tedium, Unclear sense of spatial continuity in navigation
Feature requests: Add mini-map to clarify spatial navigation, Diversify encounter types to reduce repetitiveness, Include memory challenges like song recognition, Vary trivia frequency instead of appearing on every single move
Competitors
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Attention rank: #348 of 461 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
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