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This game brings together multiple ideas that I saw across the competitors in week one. The inspiration took me to creative new places that I’ve not touched in such a terribly long time. The thing is that typically one would have “an idea” and then the reality of getting into the technology behind that idea would eventually take a rather creative idea and turn it into a beige contemplation. Not for any other reason than that getting stuck figuring out all the technology, architecture and modularity behind the idea would exhaust whatever creative fumes the main idea required to sustain itself. AI, it seems, frees one of this.
On the surface this is just a clone of the NES game excite bike. That might not sound terribly exciting to many of you, but I can recall many Saturday mornings just trying to crush a new high score.
The start title screen doesn’t have a fancy cinematic like “Founderman”. This one is all action, and the most important thing is to just jump right into the ride.
One of the better features from Founderman is the ability to pick different starting characters. This game is just like that-plenty of choice at the beginning. Each horse has it’s own unique abilities, but there’s a catch. When you play the game-you can upgrade your horse!
The level select looks pretty normal on page one. This is intentional. All the craziness happens on page two. After all, you’d be perfectly fine thinking.. .”oh this is just a normal game.” I assure you, it is not.
So what, exactly, awaits on page two? On page two you can ride the rainbow road, a candy throwing parade (shout out to Kady's Substack and if you do well you’ll even see Heather ‘s eagles following you along the routes. Is that THE SUN?
Yes, yes it is.
And here’s a live video of the game-it’s the kind of silly game that AI makes possible. I’ll take you on a tour of a reset that I just did to clear my times and run thru three stages-one of the so-named “normal” stages, and then two of the more… exotic ones!
Click/Tap play on this video-warning, sound enabled on this one!
Where to play this at?
Inspirations
Goes without saying it never occured to me to build a paul revere inspired game. Definitely giving credit to this one!
The eagles are a result of playing Sky King. It’s really great when the birds show and you’ve got some speed going on in a map. it feels, somehow, like you’re moving even faster.
The parade level is directly inspired by this innovative game about throwing candy to bag holders at the parade.
And Founderman, mentioned up above which you’ll see influences of in this excite bike ride.
We have more titles coming in-some are waiting on submitters to write a post. I’m aware of three github repos awaiting such posts. Get those posted soon folks!
Original source
Canonical Substack URL: https://advisoryhour.substack.com/p/summer-into-ai-2026-reverebike-or.