Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman

(destroy.spritefusion.com)

153 points | by HugoDz 22 hours ago

26 comments

  • peddling-brink 18 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...

  • alexreardon 16 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

  • bosch_mind 15 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...

  • sphars 20 hours ago
    Looks like a vibe-coded clone of a project posted about 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719443
    • HugoDz 19 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 16 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?

        • spartanatreyu 9 hours ago
          We shouldn't be surprised when this sort of thing happens in the age of LLMs.

          All LLMs do is select the next word based on their training data then repeat.

          When people rely on vibecoding, a non-zero fraction of users will inevitably end up with the same results.

      • cocoalba 18 hours ago
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    • Tiberium 19 hours ago
      If anything, Spritefusion seems to be higher quality, especially when destroying text.
      • Muhammad523 17 hours ago
        For me, on librewolf, the entire opposite is true. Spritefusion looks like an extemely buggy thingy while PageRage works incredibly well
    • pimlottc 18 hours ago
      Nice, this previous one works on mobile
  • Muhammad523 17 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 15 hours ago
      Probably, since this entire thing is an ad for the AI pixel art product
  • mirconeri 1 hour ago
    does it exist already? Probably yes. Do I care? Not really, it's pretty fun and so smooth, nice one
  • pmontra 7 hours ago
    I'm not sure that it can work anymore outside of its own web page ("works best in chrome or firefox 4") but you must check Katamari! at http://kathack.com/

    Click the Katamari link at the top.

    Edit: I managed to post this comment, went back to the Katameri page, played a little more with it and my Firefox crashed. It didn't use to.

  • Dwedit 17 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?
  • pseudosavant 20 hours ago
    This is one of my favorite things I've ever stumbled across on HN
  • mvk666 5 hours ago
    I tried to destroy pornhub.com, but I could only get to the disclaimer :(
  • epestr 7 hours ago
    Interestingly it considers my long monitor to be a mobile. Quite peculiar how resolution was used to identify phones here.
  • tetris11 19 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

  • EnzeShi 8 hours ago
    You should be able to destroy your own website :).
  • blindflag 9 hours ago
    Nostalgia-fostering and well-executed; thanks for sharing!
  • helloforce 17 hours ago
    This was surely fun, never played such a game before. Is it competitive when we are playing the multiplayer mode?
  • Muhammad523 17 hours ago
    Remembers me of PageRage, the latter works much better on firefox and is an extension
  • ed_mercer 11 hours ago
    This was so fulfilling to do on x.com
  • arecsu 19 hours ago
    Lovely!!
  • msalsas 20 hours ago
    Awesome. Congratulations!
  • okship 20 hours ago
    That was enjoyable!
  • gembershotje 21 hours ago
    this looks so fun
  • furiousfirebird 18 hours ago
    Great fun!
  • kwar13 9 hours ago
    that was surprisingly fun lol. buttery smooth in browser too!
  • winddude 17 hours ago
    boo chatgpt.com responds with a 403
  • kickstartaioffi 18 hours ago
    Can't stop , won't stop playing it LOL
  • QuiCasseRien 16 hours ago
    this is fucking addictive