The colors are difficult for colorblind people. Orange/green is difficult already, and then green turns into red depending on the state? Ugh. Looks fun but unplayable for me.

Every vibe coded site is too dark and the text is too small.

Nice game!

We made a similar game several years ago for the Pyweek game competition, but there wasn't the fun "letter invaders" style that this one has.

https://pyweek.org/e/RegExExpress/

I really like your implementation!

Might be good to limit some of the special operators to give more focus -- otherwise the early levels are a bit too solvable with ".*"

Wow really cool! Genuinely fun, and educational at the same time.

One usability request: after firing a regex, could the text box be cleared? It's not hard to hit Ctrl+A and start typing again, but it does add a bit of friction. (I can send a PR)

I cant even read this because most of the text is outside my phones viewport. Please test your stuff before posting it here.

I don't understand the first "combat" level. There's no real defining pattern separating the good from bad hex strings, so it's just a typing speed contest to type all the enemy patterns, right? What am I missing?

Haha, this is nice. I'm bad at regex most of the time. Playing this felt like when I first switched from Visual Studio to Vim. it’s a bit of a learning curve. It’s an interactive game btw

cool idea but it needs to get slower as the levels get harder

Source code!: https://github.com/mdp/regex-blaster

This is really funny ;D Gives Tetris vibes and is executed beautifully.

I wish it wasn't time-limited...

The page width is not responsive and unusable on mobile

This looks like something I would vibe code with Google's Gemini. Interesting concept.

Fun interactive game!

Cool idea! I shall give it a try :)

TL;DR: I think you should still learn regex, even though AI has made it a "useless" skill

https://mdp.github.io/2026/03/17/the-kids-are-alright-and-th...

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