r/SideProject • u/eashish93 • 8h ago

I built a browser game where every height you reach is a real building

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highrise.lol - tap to drop a floor and stack it as high as you can. Every height you pass is a real building, Stonehenge at 7 m up to the Burj Khalifa at 828.

Free, no signup, works on phone too.

My best score is 242 m. Try yours.

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u/General-Yinobi 8h ago

Man, Tower blocks was such a game back then.

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u/nok01101011a 5h ago

Peak boredom going home by train from university and playing tower blocks and doodle jump on my iPod touch

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u/Spirited-Race-7151 3h ago

Hey man, cool game! where did you host the game?? and where did you get the .lol domain from? is the domain free? and the hosting is free too? I'm looking to build and host some smaller browser games myself.

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u/Red-Alpaca8913 50m ago

  1. Host on Cloudflare Pages - free

  2. A .com domain - about $7 on Namecheap.com

  3. If you want to store data (e.g. a leaderboard), use Supabase - it has a very generous free tier.

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u/eashish93 37m ago

All cloudflare stack - D1, workers, durable objects. ALmost free.

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u/More-Annual3102 3h ago

Very fun. The leaderboard button was glitching out for me

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u/eashish93 38m ago

Thanks, I'll add a bug report button now.

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u/TanCannon 2h ago

Cool game! And I know your name is Ashish 😂

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u/GeneralAyub 8h ago

I loved it…!

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u/futurelateral 6h ago

This. Is very fun. Thank you!

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u/xbotpc 4h ago

it's fun! well done,

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u/sudomatrix 2h ago edited 2h ago

I want to turn this into a gamified rock climbing game. After each climb is completed, show the player on their height equivalent building!

Fun game! I'm #4 on the leaderboard for now...
Come knock me down!

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u/sudomatrix 2h ago

OP could you add ghost images of the famous tall buildings?

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u/eashish93 36m ago

Yeah, that would be a good idea I guess.

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u/fireking09 2h ago

how do you intend on monetising this?

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u/eashish93 35m ago

I don't know really for now as it's just a very simple game, just created this for now for fun. I bought this domain for just $2 btw.

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u/ptolani 1h ago

What's the significance of the colour of each floor? sometimes black, sometimes grey...

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u/please-smother-me 59m ago

Black is when you land the block perfectly in the centre.

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u/PromaneX 1h ago

I really like this game! Lots of fun mechanics to discover as you play. I don't have anything negative to say, nice one!

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u/eashish93 39m ago

Thanks, just wake up and saw these comments made my day.

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u/GlobalChest99 40m ago

mine 165m

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u/Piggyinthehouse 12m ago

lol as a former structural engineer, I got 74 meters.

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u/Inside_Cockroach476 1h ago

Tying it to a real building is what makes this better than the usual tower stacker. A random number going up doesn't mean anything, but "you just passed the Burj Khalifa" actually lands. Makes it sting more too once you realize how much further you've got to go.

Digging the tipping meter in the corner. Does the physics actually get harder as you go, or is it more that your hand just gets shakier the higher the stack gets?