QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)
Details
- External ID
- 48935176
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- QBasic Gorillas (Repeeled)
- Website domain
- gameswithtony.com
- Launched
- July 16, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 31
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.7885304659498208
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
I've found the most engaging way to practice techniques for AI-assisted development and test models is to build fun side projects in vanilla JS.I spent many hours playing (and studying and editing) QBasic Gorillas, and this is a vanilla JS implementation using Fable and Opus.Play 1-on-1 hotseat or against the computer. A bit of extra camera snazz as well.
Enrichment
- Theme
- browser automation and scraping for AI
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- qbasic gorillas game remake
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes It is a 2D ballistic artillery game built with vanilla JavaScript and HTML Canvas, relying on standard physics equations and simple bot logic that modern AI assistants produce effortlessly.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Retroarch (CRT shader alternatives), cool-retro-term
Concerns raised: CRT emulation filter is oversimplified (noise + scanlines only), Filter doesn't accurately represent authentic CRT appearance, AI-assisted development diminishes skill requirement
Feature requests: More sophisticated CRT emulation (grid alignment, palette reduction), Better wind physics legibility, Camera zoom smoothing improvements
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 29 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #7 of 30 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 224 days after the earliest competitor.
- QBasic 1.1 in the Browser · hn · 2026-09-23 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- amiga-game-kit · github · 2026-09-25 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- I had Fable clone a game, it turned it into an arena combat AI trainer · hn · 2026-06-12 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Antics: Drop-in multiplayer for your AI-built games · hn · 2026-07-29 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- Marvin, your own AI-powered game studio · hn · 2025-12-04 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.36
- QVAC SDK, a universal JavaScript SDK for building local AI applications · hn · 2026-04-09 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Simulator for a custom 8-bit discreet logic computer · hn · 2026-07-14 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.35
- Fable.Three · github · 2026-09-26 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.35
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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