Data Campus
Free · play online in your browser, no download
Build the internet, one rack at a time: an idle builder about running a data centre, from digging silicon to serving AI labs.
Official site behuzer.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked from the developer's own Reddit posts on r/aigamedev by u/Careless-Flower6059.
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- Play free — itch.ioitch.ioEarly access · itch.io status: Prototype; open for playtestingFree
Plays in the browser on itch.io. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Data Campus
Data Campus is a free idle builder about running a data centre, playable in the browser on a phone or a computer. You dig silicon and copper, turn them into chips, keep the power on and the racks cool, and sign up the companies that want to run on your servers: start-ups, photo apps, backup firms and AI labs. Everything you build sits on the map, where you can watch it work. Online, a weekly Players league puts you against about 30 players at your rank on one theme each week (money earned, megawatts added, customers served, jobs done or hours with the power on), with ranks from Garage to Five Nines, and you can join corporations. An October update added a clearer tutorial, and a later one gave islands a limit and a reason to move on to the next. The developer, behuzer, says they used Claude Code for the entire game, giving the ideas and the direction while the AI wrote the code, and used generative AI for the visuals as well. It is a prototype the developer is playtesting, with a built-in way to send logs. Progress is saved in that browser only; on a phone the game can be added to the home screen as a full-screen app. Free on itch.io, in English.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/aigamedev (7 Oct 2026, UTC) the developer writes: “I used Claude Code for the entirety of the game. I basically gave the ideas and the direction on where I want the game to go and the code did the rest.” The developer adds that the original visuals were “very 'Claude'” and could be told immediately as vibe-coded, and that the version shown had updated visuals. In a later post (12 Oct 2026) the developer writes: “I used generative AI allthrought out the development of the game, including the visuals”, and says they would most likely work with an artist if they release it.
- Developerr/aigamedev post (12 Oct 2026): “I used generative AI allthrought out the development of the game, including the visuals.” — Reddit (u/Careless-Flower6059)
- ObservedThe itch.io AI disclosure ticks AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text. — itch.io
Plain JavaScript files with no framework (data, simulation, rendering, sound, interface, playtest, league and corporation modules) served as an HTML5 build. The weekly league, corporations and playtest logs talk to the developer's own server on Cloudflare Workers; a code comment says the game also runs on a claude.ai page, where the playtest panel uses the page's own storage and user features instead and the league is switched off. These are storage and messaging calls only; the game does not call AI models while you play.
- Engine / framework
- None (vanilla JavaScript)
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“I basically gave the ideas and the direction on where I want the game to go and the code did the rest.”- Data Campus - An idle game based on data centers (r/aigamedev)
- Big update: a clearer tutorial, the weekly league and corporations (itch.io devlog)
Verification notes: AI use from the developer's posts by u/Careless-Flower6059 on r/aigamedev (7 Oct 2026, 14:58 UTC, and 12 Oct 2026, 09:26 UTC), read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 8 Nov 2026; the account's post list shows the game shared on several subreddits from 4 Oct 2026, at first also under the name Data Center. Features from the posts, the itch.io page and its devlog (11 and 16 Oct 2026), and the league rules from the game's own code; all re-read on 8 Nov 2026. itch.io: account behuzer, status Prototype, HTML5, updated 16 Oct 2026, 12:15 UTC; the page shows no publication date, rating or download count, so no release date is recorded. “For the entirety of the game” is read as Claude Code being used throughout; no share of AI-written code is stated, so none is recorded. The game's nine script files were searched for AI service addresses: the only network calls go to the developer's Cloudflare Worker (league, corporations, playtest logs) and, on claude.ai, to that page's storage and user-ID features (window.claude), not to any AI model. No team size or location is stated; the posts use “I”, a code comment says “our website”. The game was not played.
Development history
Post on r/aigamedev: the developer says Claude Code was used for the entire game.
DeveloperReddit (u/Careless-Flower6059)First devlog: a clearer tutorial, the weekly league and corporations.
Developeritch.io (behuzer)
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itch.io
Free in the browser on phones and computers; on a phone it can be added to the home screen as a full-screen app. Progress is saved in that browser only. The weekly league and corporations need a connection to the developer's server.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Campus - An idle game based on data centers (r/aigamedev) Reddit (u/Careless-Flower6059) | Social post | Oct 7, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Updated - my idle game (WIP) based on data centers, Data Campus (r/aigamedev) Reddit (u/Careless-Flower6059) | Social post | Oct 12, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Data Campus by behuzer itch.io | Store page | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Big update: a clearer tutorial, the weekly league and corporations itch.io (behuzer) | Devlog | Oct 11, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) behuzer | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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