Show HN: SineRider, a math puzzle game

Messing with your TI-84 graphing calculator is a rite of passage for every teenager who has ever been bored in a math class. In 2013 I was that teenager, and it gave me an idea for a tiny game about sledding on graphs. This project grew into my white whale, and I spent my twenties trying and failing to finish it alone. I shelved the game when I started working for Hack Club in 2018—until last May, when a few community members took it off the shelf. The project took on a life of its own, and turned into a year of nights and weekends from a global team of 20+ teens in 8+ countries. Today SineRider enters public beta!

SineRider is literally an infinite universe of function composition puzzles, each with infinite solutions, that range from welcoming for 9th graders to difficult for even the most serious matlab user. And every day we tweet out a fresh one to be solved with your morning coffee.

We hope you enjoy playing SineRider as much as we’ve enjoyed making it. And we’re not done! Mobile support, polar coordinates, and a level editor are all on the roadmap. SineRider is a living project, to be continuously built and maintained as free OSS by the Hack Club community: https://github.com/hackclub/sinerider

The team that built the game will try to be in the comments today between high school classes and AP tests.

—chris walker, creative director

Watch the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35nDYoIwiA8

Play now: https://sinerider.com

Show HN: SineRider, a math puzzle game
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Well this is just beautiful! I'll be playing this later tonight when I've got some time. :)

Roughly 7 years ago I made a Sine Rider Solver: http://theartbot.com/labs/SineRiderSolver.html No idea if it still works.

According to my page, you called it "Super Cool".

My child played through all the levels a while back.

This has positive impact on kids.

All I can say is thank you. That's really my only feedback. Thank you.