{"slug": "show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books", "title": "Show HN: Replicant Space – an HTTP API-based game based on the Bobiverse books", "summary": "A developer created Replicant Space, a free HTTP API-based game inspired by the Bobiverse books, as a personal project to rediscover his passion for coding after burnout and AI-related disillusionment. The game, built with Astro, Flask, Redis, Celery, and Just, invites players to explore a story and take over the galaxy via API interactions.", "body_md": "During Christmas 2025, I found myself burnt out from work. The last few years had been hard, and multiple redundancies saw the company I loved reduce down to just a handful of remaining staff. As a coping mechanism, I kinda disassociated for a while - throwing myself into my personal projects. AI was destroying the passion I had for coding. I tried to find some meaning in development again.\n\nAfter months of throwing myself into creating this game, I slowly fell back in love with coding. I taught myself a bunch of technologies that I was previously unfamiliar - Astro, Flask, Redis, Celery, Just.\n\nAnyway, this is Replicant Space. It's free. I love building and playing it. There's a cool story. Aliens are awesome. Feel free to poke the API and take over the galaxy.\n\nComments URL: [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103612](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49103612)\n\nPoints: 1\n\n# Comments: 0", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books", "canonical_source": "https://replicant.space/", "published_at": "2026-07-29 21:57:28+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-07-29 22:22:37.150477+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools"], "entities": ["Replicant Space", "Astro", "Flask", "Redis", "Celery", "Just"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/show-hn-replicant-space-an-http-api-based-game-based-on-the-bobiverse-books.jsonld"}}