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 ^ ^
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.
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.
Absolute banger. Time to add a competitive multiplayer mode, skill-based matchmaking, and ranked seasons
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.
Both Claude and GPT5 can single shot this type of game. The score counter looks exactly like the type of thing Claude spits out.
OP made the game with its own engine so I think that makes it very unlikely
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.
Vibe-coding is old news. We’ve moved on to ant-coding.
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
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˚.
> [...] 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 like the big head and the smile on the ant
He is smart!
my son really enjoyed this, he's 11
Such a cute little game; it gave me a chance to catch my breath on this busy day.
Thanks!
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.
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.
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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ok
new fr
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