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24 alternatives to My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'.
OVER 15 YEARS IN THE GAME OUR STORY The Halp Network (THN) is a Black- and female-owned creative services and production company shaping the future of entertainment through inclusive storytelling, cultural consulting, and world-class production. As a trusted partner to game studios of all walks,...
The Halp Network is a creative services and production company offering casting, recording, mixing, music, and editorial services for game studios. The company provides customizable packages tailored to project scope… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. My saturday project. For when your co-founders can't 'Draw Something'. launched in 2012; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I wasn't quite sure if this qualified as "Show HN" given you can't really download it and try it out. However, dang said[0]: > If it's hardware or something that's not so easy to try out over the internet, find a different way to show how it actually works—a video, for example, or a detailed post with photos. Hopefully I did that? Additionally, I've put code and a detailed guide for the netboot computer management setup on GitHub: https://github.com/kentonv/lanparty Anyway, if this shouldn't have been Show HN, I apologize! [0]…
2024 · lanparty.house · its alternatives →
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I've seen some interests in (simulation) video games here on HN so I thought I'd share a short version of our story. More than 6 years ago, me and my friend from university were playing around with an idea of making a game we always wanted to play. We worked on it on weekends but the progress was quite slow, especially due to so many dead ends and wasted effort. Eventually however, we solidified our direction and decided to take the risk to resign from our well paid SWE jobs and work on it full time. It took more than a year but yesterday we have finally released it on Steam:…
2022 · its alternatives →
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The HN Arcade▲352I love seeing all the small games that people build and post to this site. I don't want to forget any, so I have built a directory/arcade for the games here that I maintain. Feel free to check it out, add your game if its missing and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Jan 2026 · andrewgy8.github.io · its alternatives →
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2014 · news.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · tinyads.io · its alternatives →
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2013 · boredbanker.com · its alternatives →
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A 60-second game about LLM permission fatigue. Claude Code needs your approval — but are you really reading the commands?
May 2026 · llmgame.scalex.dev · its alternatives →
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I've been teaching LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering recently, via MCP tools hooked up to the open-source XMage codebase. It's still pretty buggy and I think there's significant room for existing models to get better at it via tooling improvements, but it pretty much works today. The ratings for expensive frontier models are artificially low right now because I've been focusing on cheaper models until I work out the bugs, so they don't have a lot of games in the system.
Feb 2026 · mage-bench.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · news.powerupgames.io · its alternatives →
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Hey folks — here’s a small experiment I hacked together over the weekend: https://cleoselene.com/ In short, it’s a way to build multiplayer games with no client-side game logic. Everything is rendered on the server, and the game itself is written as simple Lua scripts. I built this to explore a few gamedev ideas I’ve been thinking about while working on Abstra: - Writing multiplayer games as if they were single-player (no client/server complexity) - Streaming game primitives instead of pixels, which should be much lighter - Server-side rendering makes cheating basically…
Jan 2026 · cleoselene.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · indiedevs.net · its alternatives →
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Hi all, This is coolwulf and I have been working on a project. The idea is to generate video content on popular Hacker News gaming stories. So far I just started this idea and will continue contributing to the content.
Jun 2026 · video.intellios.ai · its alternatives →
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Mini social network that I made as my first web app project. - misa-j/social-network
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello HN. This is a project me and some friends built at university in 2017. It was originally built in a rush, but we've added a few improvements over the years. It's a fun game to host at a demoparty and project on a big screen - We did that at Instanssi many times. The implementation is still rough, and suffers from the fast pace of the modern web - The frontend is likely very outdated, and the backend is built with Vapor 2 and Swift 3.1, both no longer supported. You can host this yourself, but it might be a bit of a pain to set up. The WebSocket protocol is fairly trivial to work out…
2022 · pixel.vkoskiv.com · its alternatives →
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w3clan Tutorial Network is platform to create tutorials or documentation of your product or services or any guide/story you wish to share on internet. Each courses or tutorials or documentation have option to use user custom domain or user custom sub-domain or default is which w3clan sub-domain for free to all users. site : https://w3clan.com
2016 · w3clan.com · its alternatives →
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gdhub.io▲37A platform where everyone can make their own video game
2025 · gdhub.io · its alternatives →
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So, me (dev) and my friend (designer) have been building a website/mobile app to help users manage their game library (think MyAnimeList, but games) for a little over a year. We launched with a very basic set of features, and have been slowing expanding since then. All the code is open source, and most of the things we implemented were direct feedback from users (e.g. being able to import games from Steam/PSN, and the Posts feature). We don't show ads or have any kind of subscription. This is just a hobby project. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated, as honestly the hardest…
2025 · gamenode.app · its alternatives →
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HN is the best for honest feedback, help me improve my product! It's not failure, it's only feedback, thanks hackers. http://gameofchat.com
2017 · its alternatives →
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Simple Wikis for Teams & Individuals, Intuitive, collaborative and beautiful knowledge sharing. An minimalist writing experience that allows you to focus on your content.
2014 · slimwiki.com · its alternatives →
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