Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Snaketron – Competitive multiplayer Snake. Back after 14 years
Hi HN, I just completed a rewrite of Snaketron, a competitive multiplayer Snake game. (Yes, yes, in Rust) A quick funny story about this game's history: Back in 2012 I had (poorly) implemented the first version of Snaketron. The issue with it was that I was keeping game state on the client, and while I did realize that it was insecure, I also had no idea what to do about it without increasing latency to unplayable levels. I was still in school, never worked on games, and haven't even heard of the term "netcode" before. The excitement of releasing my first pet project got the better of me,…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Play Snaketron in the browser: open-arena multiplayer snake with orbs, boost, and a live public room.
2012 · snaketron.com · its alternatives →
- 2MS
2013 · hipstersnake.com · 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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Hi HN! Thanks for your attention to my post. It was a big challenge to run most of Node.js packages in browser, fast moreover. Virtual File system, resolve import/export. I got cold many times, depressions, burned out, yet still alive and finished it. Many guys helped me with an advice. Many users give a lot of positive feedback. There are 200,000 monthly unique users. I work full time now because of the freemium business model. To be honest - I am happy after many years of hard work.
2022 · playcode.io · its alternatives →
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A replayable arcade shooter where you control a snake of heroes. - a327ex/SNKRX
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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URL Snake▲114Just a little demo I made of a fully functioning game of snake encoded entirely within a valid url (around 1033 bytes of code encoded into a 1464 byte url).
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Still very much a work in progress, but really wanted to share this even in it's early state. Had heaps of fun building it to learn more about WebRTC.
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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🐍 Play snake using your face! ⬅️😃➡️. Contribute to paruby/snake-face development by creating an account on GitHub.
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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In this blog post, we present a port of the Snake game to Twitter. We detail some of the game design choices we made, along with code and explanations.
2016 · yro.ch · its alternatives →
- 12MS
2013 · piwh1000.github.io · its alternatives →
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Snake is back! From the original creator Taneli Armanto
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Code is here: https://github.com/bebrws/bevy-snake I had a lot of fun practicing Rust and Learning some Bevy concepts with this repository. Bevy has an incredibly powerful dependency injection system and follows a pattern called ECS which makes it very powerful (and new to me). This simple < 300 lines of code might help with learning some Bevy concepts. It also shows how to copmile for the web/WASM and inject a canvas for the game (or use a pre existing div).
2024 · bbarrows.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · tinyurl.com · its alternatives →
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I am a big fan of Rust since it provides great tooling and allows me to write code with lots of confidence that it will work reliably. But sometimes I hate it, too. It takes more time to write code in Rust and some things are pretty difficult to prop...
2023 · blog.lohr.dev · its alternatives →
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A hidden game for your web inspector
2019 · matthew.rayfield.world · its alternatives →
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Can GPT-4 code an entire game for you? Yes, yes it can. Here's how I recreated a Snake game that runs in your browser using Chat GPT-4 and @Replit, with ZERO knowledge of Javascript all in less than 20 mins 🧵
2023 · twitter.com · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, french web dev here, About 10 years ago I did a little party game in the browser inspired by Achtung die Kurve genre, it reached HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9494619) and everything went crazy, it's still largely played in open-spaces all over the world today. This past year, I've been working on a sequel: https://curvytron2.com is live. Same goal as the first one: challenge myself, perfect my skills, have fun and give back to the internet community the best way I know; by just putting a free little fun game out there. No ads, no tracking, no…
Jun 2026 · curvytron2.com · its alternatives →
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It's been about 3 weeks since I dusted off the Multiplayer Tetris game that me and a buddy wrote A year ago and that's been collecting dust since then. A lot of after work and weekend hours have been pooring into the project since then, and I think it's about time to show the progress What's been done: - Preloading - Completely rewrote layout for desktop / tablet browsers using css3 :target. - Usage instructions added (one of the comments I got: "Yeah, it works, but how do I play?" ) - Sending all powerups to other users now works (click on another user's playfield to send powerup) - Game…
2012 · goo.gl · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I'm sharing a little open-source utility I wrote recently. I'm a huge fan of Brendan Gregg's "BPF Performance Tools" book. However, every time I SSH into a fresh server, most of the diagnostic tools aren't installed there and installing them can be really annoying. I decided to use Nix package manager and LLMs to make this process straightforward. My utility first downloads a "toolbox" of Linux utilities (built with Nix), runs Brendan Gregg's famous "60-second Linux analysis" playbook and then summarizes the results with an LLM. So "60-second Linux analysis" now becomes a single…
Mar 2026 · quesma.com · its alternatives →
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