Today’s find · Thursday, August 13, 2026
A browser game welded to one specific Twitch channel: you earn status by playing, and that status decays if you stop. Tying a persistent multiplayer economy to a single streamer's audience — and making the reward rot rather than accumulate — is a real design bet, not a reskin of an idle game. Zero stars, self-hosted on GitHub Pages, and it lives or dies on whether that channel is live.
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An asymmetric browser board game built on the Samudra Manthana myth, where the two sides…
A cozy golden-hour game about pointing a pool float and drifting — almost no verbs, which is…
Feeds your real GitHub commit history into a campaign, so the progression comes from work you…
Quick pickrekt game — Eight bosses, six weapons, and a hand-written ragdoll in a single dependency-free file — the shortest path from click to actually swinging at something.
Passed over the usual clone pile — Wordle variants, rock-paper-scissors, another Minecraft builder — plus two JSON-to-filesystem utilities and a 'game helper' aim script that aren't games at all.