Data Centre Tycoon
Free · play online in your browser, no download
Turn a rundown shed and one rack into a futuristic data centre in a quiet coastal village, until you can buy a yacht. “Idea by TJ, Built by Codex.”
Official site teajayh.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked from the description of the developer's own YouTube video about making the game.
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Plays in the browser on itch.io. No download.
Browser (no download) · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Data Centre Tycoon
Data Centre Tycoon is a free satirical management game for desktop browsers. In the peaceful coastal village of Meadowbrook you start with a rundown shed and improvised hardware and build a computing empire: you schedule jobs, prioritise lucrative contracts and keep clients happy before late-payment deductions eat into your profits, research better computers, upgrade electricity and cooling, and reinvest across six facility levels and four computer tiers. Your in-game assistant, a character called BYTE, walks you through the basics and explains why certain officials need an entirely normal “administration fee”. The goal is to buy a yacht, and you can keep playing afterwards. It is played with the mouse in a low-poly 3D world and is best in fullscreen on a desktop. Progress is not saved, so refreshing or closing the page starts a new session. The developer, TJ (TeaJayh on itch.io, TeeJay on YouTube), credits the game “Idea by TJ, Built by Codex” and says in the description of a video about making it that they gave the ideas and prompts while OpenAI's Codex did all the coding. Free on itch.io.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe itch.io page credits the game “Idea by TJ, Built by Codex.” In the description of the developer's YouTube video “I Made an Entire Game Using AI (Without Writing Any Code)” (22 Oct 2026) the developer writes: “I put OpenAI's Codex to the test by challenging it to create a fully playable game. I provide the ideas and prompts while AI does all the coding.” Which Codex app and model were used is not stated.
- Developeritch.io page: “Idea by TJ, Built by Codex.” The AI disclosure ticks AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text. — itch.io
A browser game built with Vite and three.js (observed in the HTML build on itch.io), with a low-poly 3D village and HTML panels for management. The itch.io AI disclosure says AI was used for code, graphics, sounds and text; the build credits one music track, “Local Forecast - Slower” from incompetech.com under CC BY 4.0. BYTE, the “AI assistant” in the game, is a scripted tutorial and story character with fixed lines; the game's script calls no AI services (observed).
- Engine / framework
- Three.js
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- ~100% of shipped codeDeveloper ReportedYouTube (TeeJay)
“I provide the ideas and prompts while AI does all the coding.”Verification notes: AI use from the itch.io credit line and the description of the developer's YouTube video (22 Oct 2026; channel TeeJay, @TeeJay01703), read through YouTube's own data and oEmbed on 8 Nov 2026; the video description links the itch.io page. The video itself was not watched. Description, features, controls, saving, tags and AI disclosure from the itch.io page (published 20 Oct 2026, 14:16 UTC; status Released; HTML5; genres Strategy and Simulation), re-read on 8 Nov 2026; no rating or download count is shown. The 100% AI code share is the developer's statement (“AI does all the coding”). The developer gives only the name TJ; the itch.io account is TeaJayh. Engine and music credit were observed in the game's HTML build (Vite bundle with three.js); the build has no AI service addresses, and BYTE's lines are fixed text in the script. The video had 1,289 views (observed; not a metric). The game was not played.
Development history
Published on itch.io (14:16 UTC), credited “Idea by TJ, Built by Codex”.
Observeditch.ioThe developer posts a video on making the whole game with Codex without writing code.
DeveloperYouTube (TeeJay)
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itch.io
Free in the browser (HTML5) on itch.io, played with the mouse; best on a desktop in fullscreen. Progress is not saved.
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Sales & revenue (all platforms)
Browser game — there are no downloads to count.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Data Centre Tycoon by TeaJayh itch.io | Store page | Oct 20, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| I Made an Entire Game Using AI (Without Writing Any Code) YouTube (TeeJay) | Social post | Oct 22, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) TeaJayh | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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