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You play a little pixel skeleton running through the 17 real towns of the Costa da Morte, the coast in northwest Spain named after its shipwrecks. The bosses are not invented: a beast a pilgrim described in 1492, a queen from local legend, a ship that sank in 1890 with 172 men aboard. Free in your browser, no signup, no ads. Built alone, in vanilla JS, by someone who is not a game developer. The princess you are saving is my daughter.
Where I live, the coast is called the Death Coast. Not as a nickname - it is the official name, and it comes from the number of ships that broke on these cliffs.í So I made a game about it.
You run through the 17 real towns of the Costa da Morte, in northwest Spain. Every level is a place you can actually walk to. And the bosses are not made up:
- The Vakner, a beast a German pilgrim wrote down in 1492 after crossing these hills - Queen Lupa, a legend tied to Mount Pindo - The HMS Serpent, a British ship that sank here in 1890. 172 men died. Three survived.
I am not a game developer. I run a small clothing brand and I built this alone in plain JavaScript, no engine, because my region had no game and I thought it deserved one. I gave it away to the local tourism association, and they adopted it as the official game of the territory.
The princess you are running to save is called Mía. She is seven. She is my daughter, and she picked some of the levels herself.
It is free, opens in your browser, no signup, no ads, nothing collected. There are also things hidden in it that only make sense if you are from here - a Nokia 3310, barnacles that make you invincible, and a secret mode you unlock with the right sequence.
honestly the idea of pulling real local folklore for the bosses instead of inventing generic monsters is such a cool touch, especially the 1890 shipwreck one. and doing it solo in vanilla JS for a kid? that rules.
About Costa da Morte Runner on Product Hunt
“Every level is a real town on Spain’s Death Coast”
Costa da Morte Runner was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 5 upvotes and 3 comments, placing #93 on the daily leaderboard. You play a little pixel skeleton running through the 17 real towns of the Costa da Morte, the coast in northwest Spain named after its shipwrecks. The bosses are not invented: a beast a pilgrim described in 1492, a queen from local legend, a ship that sank in 1890 with 172 men aboard. Free in your browser, no signup, no ads. Built alone, in vanilla JS, by someone who is not a game developer. The princess you are saving is my daughter.
Costa da Morte Runner was featured in Historical Games (1.5k followers), Travel (42.4k followers) and Games (98.8k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 39.5k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
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Costa da Morte Runner was hunted by Martín Caamaño. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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Martín Caamaño
Where I live, the coast is called the Death Coast. Not as a nickname - it is the official name, and it comes from the number of ships that broke on these cliffs.í
So I made a game about it.
You run through the 17 real towns of the Costa da Morte, in northwest Spain. Every level is a place you can actually walk to. And the bosses are not made up:
- The Vakner, a beast a German pilgrim wrote down in 1492 after crossing these hills
- Queen Lupa, a legend tied to Mount Pindo
- The HMS Serpent, a British ship that sank here in 1890. 172 men died. Three survived.
I am not a game developer. I run a small clothing brand and I built this alone in plain JavaScript, no engine, because my region had no game and I thought it deserved one. I gave it away to the local tourism association, and they adopted it as the official game of the territory.
The princess you are running to save is called Mía. She is seven. She is my daughter, and she picked some of the levels herself.
It is free, opens in your browser, no signup, no ads, nothing collected. There are also things hidden in it that only make sense if you are from here - a Nokia 3310, barnacles that make you invincible, and a secret mode you unlock with the right sequence.
Cheers from the actual Death Coast :)