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Show HN: I created a small 2D game about an ant

aanthonymax.github.io

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Hello everyone! I created a short game in just a few days, just for fun, where you play as an ant and feed it apples

This game also features random landscape generation, with clouds and trees arranged in a chaotic pattern across all coordinates. This is what took me the longest time :)

I would appreciate your feedback ^ ^

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Here's my version, took about 5 minutes to create inside the ChatGPT web interface. https://valine.github.io/vibe-coded-ant-game/

I don't know if this game was vibe coded, but it certainly could have been. Most notable thing about this post is probably that vibe coded games are good enough now to fool HN.

I love the "Don't trust everything you see on HN" banner.

It's good, but it's no bees and watermelon seeds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCptY6WgNDw

You should also mention it was made with a templating engine you created! Makes it a lot cooler as a demo!

Yes, I did it, but modestly.

I see potential for speedrunning since the apples are always in the same position.

It must be a slow news day.

It's a Show HN that doesn't appear to be vibe-coded AI slop. I'll take it any day of the week.

Vibe-coding is old news. We’ve moved on to ant-coding.

  +++out of cheese error+++

Both Claude and GPT5 can single shot this type of game. The score counter looks exactly like the type of thing Claude spits out.

Fair enough, it is impossible to know. I'm making an assumption based on the fact that the use of AI wasn't mentioned anywhere I could see, and people usually mention it.

OP made the game with its own engine so I think that makes it very unlikely

Reminds me of Ant for the HP48 calculator, though I have a feeling that was way before your time ;-)

https://www.hpcalc.org/details/6681

It should show you a nude ant when you win, like Eggman.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0OSfbPJFa4

Absolute banger. Time to add a competitive multiplayer mode, skill-based matchmaking, and ranked seasons

This is great; I don't play video games as an adult but I got to have my 4 seconds of fun and it was all I needed. Top form aanthony!

A little know fact is that if you want to pack six ants inside an apple, the guy at the bottom has to be at 49.93˚.

I like the big head and the smile on the ant

He is smart!

> [...] trees arranged in a chaotic pattern across all coordinates

Did you mean "across the horizontal axis only"?

Well, yes. It would be strange if the tree grew underground or in the air :)

I mean there's not much of a game really, but I like it for what it is. It's also cute and the controls feel surprisingly snappy. My suggestion would be to try this typical responsive meta tag so the viewport does not scroll: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Guides/Vie...

I what is the “I mean” for? What are you clarifying?

It could be many things. I use this idiom too. I don't know what I'm doing.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/I_mean

Expressing uncertainty, most likely.

Such a cute little game; it gave me a chance to catch my breath on this busy day.

Thanks!

My record score is 6

The apples seem misproportioned to the ant? Is that just me?

That's just your perception, both apples and ants measure approximately one centimeter to the nearest order of magnitude.

The ant is very hungry

Or very well fed.

Level 2:

Get all apples apart from the lowest one.

my son really enjoyed this, he's 11

I’d like to name my Ant please. Anthony? Or perhaps Antoine. Or maybe even Marie Antoinette. Wow there must be like 20 names that start with Ant.

The Anthology of Bernie Santers

Belligerant Santa

Anton

Grant

Samantha

Kant

Evan T.

Banterman

Chantelle

The Phantom

Bryant

Santiago

Myrmidon, Pissmire, Antihero

Crushed it!

Dude, I didn’t really think about using GitHub pages to make games like this! Thanks for inspiring me today.

speedrun when?

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