Around the Cosmos
Free · play online in your browser, no download
A minimalist idle game with a space theme, built as a prototype to test what AI can do. The developer says 99% of the code is written by AI.
Official site secondintelligentworld.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. The developer's own itch.io page (secondintelligentworld), linked in the developer's Reddit post on r/IndieDev.
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Plays in the browser on itch.io. No download.
Browser (no download) · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Around the Cosmos
Around the Cosmos is a minimalist idle (incremental) game with a space theme, free to play in the browser on itch.io. Its page says little about how it plays: it is best played fullscreen, uses the mouse only, and is tagged relaxing, 2D and single-player. The developer describes it as a prototype built to test out what AI can and cannot do. In a post asking for feedback on r/IndieDev, the developer, who works as a developer and posts as u/lightpassion, wrote that the code is 99% written by AI, with some corrections made by hand, while the art, text, mechanics and direction are the developer's own and the music is a royalty-free track used under its free licence. The AI tool is not named. In English; listed as a prototype.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/IndieDev (5 Jul 2026, UTC) asking for feedback on the prototype, the developer writes: “Coding is 99% written by AI (I'm a developer and I've manually corrected some, but if anything is wrong, I will simply direct it to correct it in a way I would've written it), but every corner of the game is original including art, text, game mechanic and direction.” The AI tool is not named.
- Developeritch.io page: “a minimalistic idle / incremental game I built to test out AI capabilities and limitations”. AI disclosure: AI Assisted, with Code, Graphics and Text. — itch.io
Per the developer, an unnamed AI tool wrote 99% of the code; the developer, who writes code professionally, corrected some of it by hand and otherwise directs the AI to rewrite code the way the developer would have written it. The art, text, mechanics and direction are the developer's, and the music is a royalty-free track.
- Engine / framework
- Not disclosed (HTML5)
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- ~99% of shipped codeDeveloper ReportedReddit (u/lightpassion)
“Coding is 99% written by AI (I'm a developer and I've manually corrected some, but if anything is wrong, I will simply direct it to correct it in a way I would've written it)”Verification notes: AI use and the 99% figure from the developer's post on r/IndieDev by u/lightpassion (5 Jul 2026, 18:34 UTC), read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive; purpose, status (Prototype), platform (HTML5), genre (Simulation) and tags from the itch.io page, re-read on 5 Nov 2026. The page shows no publication date, so the release date is not recorded. The Reddit account and the itch.io account secondintelligentworld are tied by the post linking the page in the first person. The post says the art and text are original, while the itch.io AI disclosure ticks Graphics and Text as well as Code; which parts of the art or text involved AI is not stated. The AI tool is not named. A check of the web build's scripts on 5 Nov 2026 found no calls to AI services. Team size and location are not stated. No rating is shown and itch.io shows no download count. The game was not played.
Development history
The developer asks for feedback on the prototype on r/IndieDev and says the code is 99% written by AI.
DeveloperReddit (u/lightpassion)
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itch.io
Free in the browser (HTML5), mouse only; the page recommends fullscreen.
Not publicly available: itch.io rating, Gross revenue.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Around the Cosmos by secondintelligentworld itch.io | Store page | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Requesting feedback for an idle / incremental game - Around the Cosmos (r/IndieDev) Reddit (u/lightpassion) | Social post | Jul 5, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) secondintelligentworld | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
