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a terminal typing game where words fall like Space Invaders
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Just a small game for the term.
HN · launched Jun 21, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 0 views
Niche: terminal and arcade games · 42 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 42 launches in terminal and arcade games →
Could you build this?
Yes A terminal-based typing game where words fall like Space Invaders is a classic beginner or weekend project easily created with curses/blessed or standard terminal I/O via an LLM.
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Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 404 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #365 of 405 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 235 days after the earliest competitor.
- Typocalypse · hn · 2026-07-04 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Gravitype · hn · 2026-09-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Wordchute · hn · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Letterphile-a word game where you try to make many words with 1 letter · hn · 2026-07-03 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- An NLP based word game for users to play against Astra, Opus, and more · hn · 2026-11-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- termablo · github · 2026-09-29 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Word Scrapes · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- I've built a words game based on binary search · hn · 2026-07-16 · 50 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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