PicoPlayer
A tiny, open-source website for playing quality webgames
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Hi HN! I just released a new minimalist website that lets you play over 150 PICO 8 games on the web that I curated myself. It's fully open source and made from the ground up to be tiny and fast, allowing you to switch games instantly by hotswapping them into the game player.The website also works as a PWA that works on mobile and can run offline after launching it once! The entire website with all 150+ games can be downloaded in under 4 megabytes of internet use. Any feedback or questions are welcome. Enjoy!GitHub Repo: https://github.com/popcar2/PicoPlayer Technical details on how it works: https://picoplayer.net/technical_deets
HN · launched Oct 30, 2026 · 13 upvotes (top 40%) · 1 view
Niche: browser-based video games · 380 launches, 21 in the last 7 days ▼ -28% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 380 launches in browser-based video games →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a small, static open-source website that embeds PICO-8 games for play in the browser. A solo builder could vibe-code and deploy something similar in a day or two.
Discussion
7 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Miniclip, Armor Games
Concerns raised: Pixel fonts are awkward to read, Start instruction says Z but prompt shows 2, Needs numeric keypad, Doesn't work in landscape on phones
Feature requests: Landscape mode support, Keyboard mapping fix for start key
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 440 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #162 of 441 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 366 days after the earliest competitor.
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