Slope remade in HTML5 to load instantly on any browser, any device
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A whole free daily game served in under 100kb with no ads, lags or logins. The URL will serve a new track every day, forever. And I've added setting sliders so players have full control over their experience.Would love to know your thoughts guys. This was just me working with Claude Opus 5.Cheers, Nathan
HN · launched Jul 31, 2026 · 42 upvotes (top 18%) · 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
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The author explicitly built this lightweight procedural endless runner in HTML5 canvas using an LLM; basic 3D projection, procedural generation, and collision physics are well within AI capabilities.
Discussion
19 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Battletoads in Battlemaniacs (SNES)
Concerns raised: Controls unclear - players assume tilt instead of drag, Visual focus becomes difficult at high scores (~4000+), Immediate death on start due to unintended swerve from touch input, Difficulty spike discourages new players
Feature requests: Longer straight, wide, obstacle-free opening section, Better control explanation ("ball goes towards finger"), Daily leaderboard (top 100), Easier beginning difficulty for longer
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 275 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #47 of 276 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 275 days after the earliest competitor.
- SkiFlee (an HTML5 game) · hn · 2026-04-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- A short walking sim based on 3DGS that runs in the browser · hn · 2026-07-06 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Bisecto · hn · 2026-08-20 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- PicoPlayer · hn · 2026-10-30 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- I rebuilt a 2000s browser strategy game on Cloudflare's edge · hn · 2026-04-11 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Linex · hn · 2026-02-24 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Overdesigned Simple Solitaire · hn · 2026-10-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- An endless scrolling word search game · hn · 2025-12-11 · 25 upvotes · similarity 0.44
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