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Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by peddling-brink on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:02PM (#49883565)
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...

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by elicash on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:39PM (#49884040)
This was my favorite of the genre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EtLDAkxf8Do
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by salahadawi on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:15AM (#49890317)
I remember this being the coolest thing ever
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by GenerWork on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:37PM (#49884765)
This is the first thing I thought of when I clicked on the post. Great memories!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by pseudosavant on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:35PM (#49882424)
This is one of my favorite things I've ever stumbled across on HN
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by tetris11 on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:02PM (#49882835)
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

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by sphars on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:33PM (#49882391)
Looks like a vibe-coded clone of a project posted about 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49719443
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by HugoDz on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:03PM (#49882868)
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.
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by cocoalba on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:14PM (#49883719)
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Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by mkoryak on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:00PM (#49885052)
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?

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by spartanatreyu on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:32AM (#49888678)
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.

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Tiberium on Monday September 28, 2026 @02:47PM (#49882621)
If anything, Spritefusion seems to be higher quality, especially when destroying text.
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Muhammad523 on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:23PM (#49884579)
For me, on librewolf, the entire opposite is true. Spritefusion looks like an extemely buggy thingy while PageRage works incredibly well
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by pimlottc on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:24PM (#49883863)
Nice, this previous one works on mobile
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by arecsu on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:34PM (#49883240)
Lovely!!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by furiousfirebird on Monday September 28, 2026 @03:52PM (#49883443)
Great fun!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by msalsas on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:41PM (#49881612)
Awesome. Congratulations!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by okship on Monday September 28, 2026 @01:57PM (#49881843)
That was enjoyable!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by gembershotje on Monday September 28, 2026 @12:48PM (#49880871)
this looks so fun
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by kickstartaioffi on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:36PM (#49884018)
Can't stop , won't stop playing it LOL
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Dwedit on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:50PM (#49884149)
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?
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by winddude on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:03PM (#49884302)
boo chatgpt.com responds with a 403
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Muhammad523 on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:22PM (#49884564)
Remembers me of PageRage, the latter works much better on firefox and is an extension
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Muhammad523 on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:25PM (#49884603)
Lots of new accounts (created a few hours ago) are posing comments lie "Great fun" or stuff like that. Are these bots?
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by mplewis on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:40PM (#49886000)
Probably, since this entire thing is an ad for the AI pixel art product
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by helloforce on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:28PM (#49884645)
This was surely fun, never played such a game before. Is it competitive when we are playing the multiplayer mode?
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by alexreardon on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:54PM (#49884967)
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

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by linkjuice4all on Monday September 28, 2026 @05:58PM (#49885027)
Back in my day it was just stray dogs leisurely destroying my lowly desktop [0], oh how technology has complicated things.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8erHVIfbYs

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by ksh09 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:12PM (#49902115)
Page-rage was the first thing I thought of.
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by QuiCasseRien on Monday September 28, 2026 @06:17PM (#49885229)
this is fucking addictive
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by bosch_mind on Monday September 28, 2026 @07:19PM (#49885816)
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...

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by ed_mercer on Monday September 28, 2026 @10:44PM (#49887446)
This was so fulfilling to do on x.com
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by blindflag on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @12:54AM (#49888428)
Nostalgia-fostering and well-executed; thanks for sharing!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by kwar13 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:08AM (#49888525)
that was surprisingly fun lol. buttery smooth in browser too!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by EnzeShi on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:57AM (#49888802)
You should be able to destroy your own website :).
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by epestr on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:09AM (#49889317)
Interestingly it considers my long monitor to be a mobile. Quite peculiar how resolution was used to identify phones here.
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by pmontra on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @03:31AM (#49889499)
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.

Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by mvk666 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @05:27AM (#49890403)
I tried to destroy pornhub.com, but I could only get to the disclaimer :(
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by mirconeri on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @09:31AM (#49892961)
does it exist already? Probably yes. Do I care? Not really, it's pretty fun and so smooth, nice one
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by kalamarico on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @07:17PM (#49902163)
Brilliant!!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by bsonmez19 on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @10:18AM (#49909366)
Really enjoyed the game! Destroying those clunky, ad-filled sites with designs I can’t stand was especially satisfying. Great work!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by Pantera87 on Thursday October 01, 2026 @07:51AM (#49920475)
That brings back memories!
Re:Show HN: Destroy Any Website with Stickman by vickyonlinecont on Saturday October 03, 2026 @03:01PM (#49946783)
I found something similar in reddit. These are fun.