An addictive phone game about phone addiction
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I recently prototyped a web game for a nonprofit to highlight the dangers of phone addiction, but unfortunately I ended up making a really addictive game instead. :-\I'm sharing this here mainly to serve as an indicator of what can be achieved early-2026 by a senior dev working with Opus 4.7 over 2 days using genuinely collaborative prompting. (ie plan->feedback->iterate)Hope it provides some inspiration or entertainment - there's a level editor too - maybe Hacker Newsers could share their favourite creations here?PS: If there's enough demand I'm happy to Open Source this (or DM me) - it's mainly just time restrictions at my end.
HN · launched May 11, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
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
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly describes prototyping this 2D browser mini-game in about two days using an LLM.
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Launched 194 days after the earliest competitor.
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