AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to The ocean in Final Fantasy IX is made of Wang tiles
made a fun little website with AI to explain how the Oceans in FFIX are authored after days of slamming my head against the keyboard trying to deconstruct it
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
- 1IM
Hi HN! I made many small web games in the past with Unity or Phaser. But this time I wanted to make something completely on my own. So I coded a basic game framework in plain JavaScript, and used it to make Almost Pong. This was a really fun project that taught me a lot about JavaScript, and I plan to make more minimalist games with this framework. Interesting fact: Almost Pong doesn't load any assets, all sprites and sounds are generated with code. Happy to answer questions, and please let me know if you have any feedback on the game. Thanks!
2022 · lessmilk.com · its alternatives →
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I sometimes pick up random projects just because I can, this was one of those times. I made it as a week long project a while back this year but never shared here, so thought to go for it haha. I created a game inspired by Doom and the backrooms called The Backdooms under 2.4kb in minified html. (for reference, this entire post would be around 1.8kB haha) I had to use a not popular way of using GZip with Zlib headers (had to write my own script for compressing it, also in the repo) to eventually convert it a size 40 QR code that works right in your browser using Decompressionstream API. This…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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It's free to play on steam, but you'll need a computer with a dedicated graphics card. I just released a new version after first releasing it 18 months ago. It's been a hard slog to scrounge time as it's not my day job but that's life. There's a ton of obvious improvements in the future (weather systems, temperature, varying rainfall, ice/snow, more biomes, more plate tectonics, lava, etc) but all suggestions/feedback is welcome.
2023 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Took a break from the falling sand simulation blog posts this week to work on another small project. It's a little pixel world generator- each time you visit, you'll see a new little world. I really like this stuff and had a blast building it yesterday!
2022 · jason.today · its alternatives →
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An environmentalist platformer about cities and oceans.
2016 · seanhtch.itch.io · its alternatives →
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2022 · neontomo.com · its alternatives →
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An RPG with random generated elements.
2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
- 10
🌊 Julia software for fast, friendly, flexible, ocean-flavored fluid dynamics on CPUs and GPUs - CliMA/Oceananigans.jl
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11AR
I think it's finally time to lock version 0.2 of my 4d side project. (Since previous Show HN a couple of years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760 I scrapped lots of stuff and concentrated on making a javascript "game engine") The sole purpose of this project is to explore whether it's possible to make the human brain spatially aware of four dimensions using Virtual Reality. It’s my first ever game project, my first time using Unity, first time writing C#, and my first anything with WebXR, so please be gentle! To manage expectations, it isn't visually pleasing…
2025 · brainpaingames.com · its alternatives →
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Hi, I’ve been working on Artifacts for the past 2 years, and it’s now ready to try. It’s a sandbox MMORPG where every action is done through a REST API. Instead of clicking to move, fight, gather, craft, or trade, you write code to control your characters. If you have any questions, comments, or feedback, I’d be happy to hear them.
Jun 2026 · artifactsmmo.com · its alternatives →
- 14ST
Solaris - a real-time WebGL simulation of Lem
Jun 2026 · solaris.franzai.com · its alternatives →
- 15AI
(space = reset) Fluid mechanics is an extremely interesting topic and I have been creative coding for a couple of months now. Therefore I started working on flow fields in processing. It had so much fun playing around with the different parameters in this project, I decided to rewrite in p5.js an added a control panel. You can change most of the parameters (within some constraints I thought to be reasonable), randomize the values and export and import settings. Hopefully some coders here get inspired and also join the great creative coding community.
2024 · synapse.nugatio.com · its alternatives →
- 16IM
Hey there HN, I took a page from Wordle's mechanisms and made this game for fun for some friends and I. Check out Wheredle and let me know what you think of it! ↙ ↗ ↘ https://wheredle.xyz
2022 · wheredle.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hello everyone! I've finally finished my latest side project - a RPG game made in Blazor. It started as a small project to learn some Blazor (I'm .NET dev but kept mainly to backend and ASP.NET). I had such a good time coding it that at some point I decided to make a full featured game out of it. I might've have bitten off more that I could chew as RPGs have so many systems and elements but overall I think it worked out well, especially for a single person project. I want to hop on the next project soon so any comments/questions/tips than can make me better really appreciated!
2024 · whimsicalwyrm.itch.io · its alternatives →
- 182M
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 →
- 19AT
An endless descent. The abyss speaks in your own words. You carve monuments into black rock.
2023 · theabysstalksback.com · its alternatives →
- 20IR
You can check the game here: https://select.supply/game/mindmaze. Curious to learn your feedback. I personally loved the game so much!
Apr 2026 · medium.com · its alternatives →
- 21SI
I've added controls for mobile and fixed the game running too fast in the browser initially because FPS where not limited. Original repo: https://github.com/rapiz1/DungeonRush My fork: https://github.com/midzer/DungeonRush/tree/emscripten
2024 · midzer.de · its alternatives →
- 22IU
2014 · cartegram.com · its alternatives →
- 23BA
rts-blog : A blog about creating an RTS in WebGL
2017 · emnh.github.io · its alternatives →
- 24TO
2020 · textyle.app · its alternatives →
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