Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman

(destroy.spritefusion.com)

113 points | by HugoDz 10 hours ago

19 comments

  • peddling-brink 7 hours ago
    What a throwback to the late 90s, early 2000s. There were a handful of games like this that let you shoot or shatter your screen.

    https://worrydream.com/Home2001/create_index.html?create_sof...

  • bosch_mind 3 hours ago
    For us Windows XP users, I found an old video of what I used similar to this. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/qMpLIcSbPFY

    Flame throws, ants eating the screen, etc. Good times. Simpler times...

  • alexreardon 5 hours ago
    I am the creator of Page Rage (https://page-rage.com/), which I released about two weeks ago. Page Rage didn't get too much traction on Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49746963), but it did end up being a top post on r/webdev (https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/1whepc7/page_rage_d...) and r/playmygame (https://www.reddit.com/r/playmygame/comments/1whfp3g/my_firs...)

    The linked project "Destroy any website" makes it's own distinct creative and gameplay choices. It may have been inspired by Page Rage or it may have been a case of "multiple discovery". Either way, "Destroy any website" is not a low quality slop clone, it's clearly had a lot of thought put into it

  • sphars 8 hours ago
    Looks like a vibe-coded clone of a project posted about 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719443
    • HugoDz 8 hours ago
      hey, maker here. I have no idea of this one, looks pretty cool! I've rolled out my stickman game here with deep care on everything, from DO multiplayer setup, to game-feel.
      • mkoryak 5 hours ago
        Seems a little suspect that you didn't know about the other one given how similar the game mechanics work, down to the jetpack to fly around.

        It is possible to both make a copy of something, and also do it with deep care and add more features, no?

      • cocoalba 6 hours ago
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    • Tiberium 8 hours ago
      If anything, Spritefusion seems to be higher quality, especially when destroying text.
      • Muhammad523 5 hours ago
        For me, on librewolf, the entire opposite is true. Spritefusion looks like an extemely buggy thingy while PageRage works incredibly well
    • pimlottc 6 hours ago
      Nice, this previous one works on mobile
  • ed_mercer 22 minutes ago
    This was so fulfilling to do on x.com
  • Muhammad523 5 hours ago
    Lots of new accounts (created a few hours ago) are posing comments lie "Great fun" or stuff like that. Are these bots?
    • mplewis 3 hours ago
      Probably, since this entire thing is an ad for the AI pixel art product
  • pseudosavant 8 hours ago
    This is one of my favorite things I've ever stumbled across on HN
  • Dwedit 6 hours ago
    Really guys? Detecting a desktop web browser as a "mobile phone" just because the window is sized to be taller than it is wide? Then refusing to let you use the website?
  • tetris11 8 hours ago
    Oh this is lovely. I started doing something similar, but I was generating the stage based on the DOM and some CSS features, but kept getting weird boundaries (read: the character would float on unseen edges)

    I later thought about using an edge-detection algorithm to capture the page as an image (triggered on page events), but never fully implemented it and shelved the project.

    I would love to know how you captured the visible edges

  • helloforce 5 hours ago
    This was surely fun, never played such a game before. Is it competitive when we are playing the multiplayer mode?
  • Muhammad523 5 hours ago
    Remembers me of PageRage, the latter works much better on firefox and is an extension
  • arecsu 7 hours ago
    Lovely!!
  • msalsas 9 hours ago
    Awesome. Congratulations!
  • okship 9 hours ago
    That was enjoyable!
  • furiousfirebird 7 hours ago
    Great fun!
  • winddude 6 hours ago
    boo chatgpt.com responds with a 403
  • gembershotje 10 hours ago
    this looks so fun
  • kickstartaioffi 6 hours ago
    Can't stop , won't stop playing it LOL
  • QuiCasseRien 4 hours ago
    this is fucking addictive