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Life & fun · August 7, 2025

OrcaCam

Hello HN. I built OrcaCam, a Flappy Bird style game where you control an orca and dodge columns while learning surprising facts about innovations that came out of Cambridge, UK (DNA, IVF, the webcam etc). The top score is visible in a shopping center in Cambridge City center for the next few months. I’m using pure JS (ES5), no frameworks. It’s a fully offline-capable PWA, using a service worker. I’ve not written a game in years, so was a fun way to learn what’s possible on the web today using the latest standards. The hardest part was a consistent level of gameplay on different resolutions.…

OrcaCam launched on August 7, 2025 with 11 votes, #1,601 of 8,530 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 1 year on.

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What it does

Cambridge gave us DNA, IVF and the webcam. Now try dodging them in a retro sprint down the River Cam.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hello HN. I built OrcaCam, a Flappy Bird style game where you control an orca and dodge columns while learning surprising facts about innovations that came out of Cambridge, UK (DNA, IVF, the webcam etc). The top score is visible in a shopping center in Cambridge City center for the next few months. I’m using pure JS…

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