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24 alternatives to Maniac Pengmaku, my Ludum Dare entry. Made in 48 hours
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Maniac Pengmaku, my Ludum Dare entry. Made in 48 hours launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1MF
2014 · 54.244.244.60 · its alternatives →
- 2AH
Point-and-click adventure with only one scenary! We tried to approach Minimalism trough gameplay. Isolated on a single stage, with a few a possible actions, you must endure trough a 40 days survival until the Sgt. Burden's crew can be rescued. Enjoy the puzzle and stay alive! And let me know if you have escaped the planet!
2013 · godswillbewatching.clay.io · its alternatives →
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- 5WM
Hi Hacker News! My friend and I [1] would like to share with you something we did this week-end. We really like the idea of game jams like the Ludum Dare, and we’d like to participate, but it’s often complicated for us, as we are often limited by the rules inherent to this kind of competition: we have to be available at specific dates, and the rules doesn’t always work for us. For example: if you want to participate as a team in a Ludum Dare compo, you have 72h instead of 48h, and you are not required to publish your code. We realized that what we really like is: - To work together. - The…
2014 · its alternatives →
- 6

A new show from Gimlet
2015 · cf-media.sndcdn.com · its alternatives →
- 7SB
I made it by 120% viba coding. enjoy! free and no ads.
2025 · smash-balls.app · its alternatives →
- 8IM
2024 · artificiallaughs.replit.app · its alternatives →
- 9ML
2015 · albertomoss.com · its alternatives →
- 10

Well HN, I've finally produced something I think is worthy of sharing, but I didn't do it "in a weekend". Yeah, it's an iOS puzzle game. And yeah, it's a game I built because I wanted to play it rather than based on market research, so all this sort of makes it the antithesis of a popular HN post. But whatever. Still hoping for some of that patented (har har) expert HN feedback. Critique any part of it except the music. Also, PM me for upgrade codes, or I can post some here if there's any interest. Download (it's free):…
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 11MF
2011 · frustimonials.com · its alternatives →
- 12IL
The MIDI controller I wanted didn't exist, so I built it. I: - posted it to reddit, got 50k views, sold a few (including to some big names in the EDM world) - used it in a session with a Wu Tang affiliate (got paid 30 chicken wings, all flats) - got banned from Instagram in 48 hours, right after one of my favorite producers followed my account. Build Details: - 2.0mm 5052 powder coated aluminum body, modeled in fusion, laser cut and bent by sendcutsend - Solid walnut endcaps - SLA keycaps - gateron switches - custom switch matrix pcb - custom c++ firmware - rp2350 mcu - i2c oled display -…
Feb 2026 · its alternatives →
- 13IR
2016 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 14IM
2023 · tapsnake.com · its alternatives →
- 152M
Made this to try out o1-preview, took ~40 prompts and 3 hours in total, with a fairly solid backed written in Go. Works pretty badly in Firefox apparently due to canvas-canvas copies being really slow, Chrome works great tho. Doesn't work well on mobile yet, and has some other minor issues, but overall it feels incredible to put together something like this so quickly.
2024 · chess280.com · its alternatives →
- 16IM
2011 · crgwbr.com · its alternatives →
- 17M1
2015 · pizzascripters.com · its alternatives →
- 18MM
2012 · viidya.com · its alternatives →
- 19MC
2016 · postudios.com · its alternatives →
- 20MT
2010 · choip.me · its alternatives →
- 21IM
2023 · amee.la · its alternatives →
- 22IV
2023 · numswap.com · its alternatives →
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2010 · flickr.com · its alternatives →
- 24IB
Nov 2025 · app.llmxllm.com · its alternatives →
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