SkiFlee (an HTML5 game)
Details
- External ID
- 47621557
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- SkiFlee (an HTML5 game)
- Website domain
- easel.games
- Launched
- April 2, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4813624678663239
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
This is a silly little multiplayer game I made for a gamejam that involves skiiing and not crashing. Some of you who are nostalgic for the 90s might like it :)
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
- html5 skiing game
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes A 2D retro skiing game inspired by SkiFree with basic multiplayer/canvas physics can readily be scaffolded with AI assistance using Phaser or HTML5 Canvas with WebSockets.
Discussion
9 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: SkiFree homage by broski (winterpixel.io)
Concerns raised: Music too annoying/distracting, Hard to identify your own character among multiple players on screen
Feature requests: Sinusoidal movement mechanic with speed boost rewards (like Mario Kart blue sparks), More noticeable player character or special effects/markers
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 244 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #131 of 245 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 155 days after the earliest competitor.
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Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.