Play the front page of Hacker News as interactive text games

In plain words

Infinity Arcade transforms any article or URL into an interactive text-based game. Users can visit the site to convert Hacker News front-page stories or custom content into playable adventures. The tool is designed for anyone interested in creative storytelling and interactive fiction, turning passive reading into engaging gameplay. The entire project is open source and freely available online.

written from the facts on this page · September 2026

From the sources

Hacker News top stories turned into interactive fiction games

This page scrapes the top 30 stories from Hacker News and generates interactive text games on-the-fly for each story. To create a game, go to infinityarcade.com/anything you want to make a gamefrom infinityarcade.com

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hey HN, I hacked together this fun project that lets you play any article on the front page of Hacker News as an interactive text game. You can create a game about anything by going to infinityarcade.com&#x2F;<anything you want goes here> You can also use a URL, which is what this page uses. The whole thing is open…

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