Vibe Coding Game Jam

Submissions

7 games so far

Stache™

You are The Stache™ — a corporate wellness coach secretly destroying engineers from the inside. Read each rant, pick the most toxic response, and fill your mustache to Walrus to steal their soul.

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Achmets Jünger

Silence! I kill you! Run the counter at a mustachioed kebab shop — take orders from a queue of customers and assemble their meals from the veggie bins before they lose patience.

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Stache-a-Nova

Four-player isometric heist in a cartoon house: grab gifts for the Princess, pass the moustache, and sabotage rivals with smoke alarms, floods, dog crates and door locks.

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SHITTY SHAVE

A frantic barber simulator where you shave clients to match a goal beard while chasing combos, collecting powerups, and trying not to draw blood.

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Snip & Rip

Memorize a beard from a 5-second Wish Card flash, then sculpt an overgrown customer using a full belt of tools — razor, scissors, trimmer, pomade, fire. Closer to the target, bigger tip.

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The Stache Fights Back

A Slay the Spire-inspired deck-combat game where you wield barber tools to defeat mustachioed foes across three increasingly challenging battles.

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StacheMeUp

Throw stylish mustaches onto moving faces in a goofy mirror world, fight wind and distance, and chain perfect hits to unlock bonus oiled throws.

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Today's theme

Mustache

Interpret it however you want — literal, absurd, hairy, stylish, villainous, historical, whatever. Just make it obvious.

What this is

Pull the starter kit, copy the empty template, and build a game inside your own folder. At 18:00 you zip your folder and hand it to the deploy agent — your game is live on donkeycat.com a couple of minutes later.

Stack rules

• Entry point is games/<your-game-name>/index.html. That's the file the website will serve.
• Anything that runs in a browser is fair game: vanilla HTML/CSS/JS, React via CDN, Phaser, p5.js, Three.js, canvas, WebGL, whatever.
• Must work by double-clicking index.html (file:// URL). If your library refuses file://, use the included ./serve.sh.
• NO API keys in user-visible code. Never hardcode secrets into index.html, JS files, or anything shipped to the browser — they're public the moment you zip them. If you need a paid API, proxy it through your own backend (or a free tier with a per-IP rate limit).
• All paths relative. Use ./style.css, never /style.css or file:///Users/you/....
• Keep the folder under ~20 MB. Compress videos or link out to YouTube.

Get started (2 steps)

1. Copy the starter folder and rename it (lowercase, dashes, no spaces — e.g. neon-snake):

   cp -r games/_template games/<your-game-name>

   On Windows: duplicate _template in Explorer and rename the copy.
2. Double-click games/<your-game-name>/index.html. Edit the files, refresh the browser.

That's it. No build step, no npm install.

Optional: run a local server

If your library refuses file:// (Three.js loaders, service workers, etc.):

./serve.sh        # macOS / Linux / WSL
serve.bat         # Windows

Then open http://localhost:8000/games/<your-game-name>/.

Try the reference game

Double-click games/tictac/index.html in the kit — classic tic-tac-toe, hotseat or vs. an unbeatable AI. Copy as much of it as you want. You can also play it live here.

How to deliver your finished game

Pre-flight (before zipping)

• Your game lives in exactly one folder: games/<your-game-name>/ (lowercase, dashes only, no spaces or underscores).
• Entry point is index.html directly inside that folder (not in a subfolder).
• Double-clicking index.html opens the game and it plays with no console errors. If that doesn't work, ./serve.sh → http://localhost:8000/games/<your-game-name>/ must work.
• All paths are relative (./style.css, ./img/foo.png) — no leading /, no file:///Users/..., no localhost URLs.
• Loads in Chrome, Safari, and on a phone browser (mobile touch should at least not crash).
• Folder is under ~20 MB.
• team.txt is filled in: game name, team members, one-sentence description, controls.

Submission — just zip and hand it over

1. Zip your folder. The zip must extract to a single folder named <your-game-name>/ with index.html directly inside it.
   • macOS: right-click the folder in Finder → "Compress".
   • Linux/WSL: cd games && zip -r <your-game-name>.zip <your-game-name>/
   • Windows: right-click → "Send to" → "Compressed (zipped) folder".
2. Name the zip <your-game-name>.zip (same name as the folder inside).
3. Hand the zip to the deploy agent (AirDrop, Slack DM, USB, whatever).
4. The deploy agent drops it into donkeycat.com, wires up the route, and deploys. Your game goes live at donkeycat.com/jam/<game-name>/ within ~2 minutes.

Sanity-check your zip

• Peek inside: you should see <your-game-name>/index.html at the top level. Not games/<your-game-name>/... and not <your-game-name>/<your-game-name>/....
• Double-click the index.html inside the extracted folder. If it plays, you're done.

Troubleshooting

• Blank page when opened by double-click: you probably used fetch() or import / type="module". Either inline your data in the JS file, or use ./serve.sh.
• CSS / JS / images don't load when live on donkeycat.com: you used an absolute path somewhere. Search your folder for src="/ and href="/ and replace with src="./ / href="./.
• Works at /jam/name/ but not /jam/name: the template includes a tiny redirect snippet that auto-adds the trailing slash on http(s) URLs. If you removed it, put it back — relative paths like ./style.css need the trailing slash to resolve correctly when served over http(s).
• ./serve.sh says python3 not found: install Python 3 from python.org, or on Windows use serve.bat, or use any other static server (npx serve, VSCode Live Server, etc.).