Chromatron
Games
puzzle game revival
SHOW HN2026
28points
9comments
#1,685of 4,366 in 2026
Top 39%of 2026 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
3 positive, 0 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 0 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Performance: 1 for, 0 againstDocs: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Clear and nice code in the original source
From 1 comment
The source code to Chromatron was made available on the game's forum at one point. Here's a copy I saved: https://gist.github.com/duskwuff/513e2b4f38b3db2e060c8611ebf5bb97 A…
duskwuff on HN
Fun game
From 1 comment
FWIW game works fine on windows 11 64bit. went to https://www.silverspaceship.com/chromatron/ ran the exe. fun game.
ticulatedspline on HN
Objections
Claims about Claude's coding strength versus Google models are doubtful
From 2 comments
Very nice. But "Models excel at code, but not at visual inspection" is limited, Claude excel's at code cause that is anthropics main focus. Google will leapfrog them soon. I…
casey2 on HNDoubtful.
rsalus on HN
Alternatives named
Skyroads Codex reverse-engineering project
From 1 comment
Similar recent project for Skyroads: https://github.com/ammaarreshi/SkyRoads-Codex
xnx on HN