Firebreak
Free · play online in your browser, no download
A turn-based daily puzzle: place one firebreak per turn and save as much of the village from the spreading fire as you can.
Official site firebreakplay.com, verified Nov 3, 2026. Entry URL submitted in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data; the game's About panel reads “Built in London, by Jimpong aka. James Yorke” and links jamesyorke.dev, LinkedIn and GitHub (jamesyorke).
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- Play free — official siteBrowserReleased · Mobile support per the entrant's jam answerFree
Runs in a desktop or mobile browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About Firebreak
A daily puzzle game in the browser. Each day brings a new map of offices, houses, trees, grass and rock with a fire burning on it. Every turn you place one firebreak and the fire then spreads; offices are worth 10 points, houses 5 and trees 1, grass is worth nothing and rock cannot burn, so it acts as a natural firebreak. The aim is to save the most in the fewest turns. The game keeps a streak, has a top-10 leaderboard (with optional Google sign-in to keep a display name), lets you share your result as a grid, and can be switched between a pixel and an emoji look. The About panel reads “Built in London, by Jimpong aka. James Yorke”, and the entrant names Wordle and enclosed horse as inspiration. It was made for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026, whose rules required at least 90% of each game's code to be written by AI; the official submission lists Cursor as the tool. It finished 490th of 945 entries. Free in the browser.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn the official Vibe Jam 2026 submission the entrant lists Cursor as the tool and answers Yes to the AI-written field. No devlog describes how Cursor was used or which model ran it, and the submission covers the jam version only.
- OfficialJam rule 3: at least 90% of the code has to be written by AI. — Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels)
Built with Cursor for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 without a game engine (the entrant's answer: “no engine!”). The leaderboard and sign-in use Firebase.
- Engine / framework
- None (web stack, no engine)
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
Verification notes: Tool (Cursor), engine (“no engine!”), genre (Puzzle), pitch, inspiration (“Wordle and enclosed horse”) and the multiplayer (Yes), mobile (Yes) and portal (Yes) flags from the entrant's answers in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data (submitted 13 Apr 2026, 11:51 UTC; final rank 490 of 945 entries, no award), re-read on 5 Nov 2026; rule 3 on the jam page requires at least 90% AI-written code. Developer: the game's About panel names Jimpong aka. James Yorke, built in London, and links jamesyorke.dev (a portfolio of a senior iOS and Android engineer). The jam data gives the X handle ekroysdj (profile name “J”, location London), which is not linked from the game; read backwards the handle is “jdsyorke”, which fits the name, but no source states that this is the same person. Team size is not stated. “Multiplayer” here means the shared leaderboard. Rules, scoring and features come from the game page; the game was not played. No calls to AI services were found in the game's code. The jam page's widget counters were not checked for this game. The release date is not stated; the jam submission is dated 13 Apr 2026 (UTC). The slug includes “daily-puzzle” to tell this game apart from other games named Firebreak.
Development history
Entered in the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 (submission date in the official games data, 11:51 UTC); the jam required at least 90% AI-written code. Final rank 490 of 945 entries, no award.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 — rules, prizes and game stats Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Vibe Jam 2026 games data (entrant submissions, final rank, awards) Vibe Jam | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Firebreak — daily puzzle (game page, How to Play and About panels) James Yorke | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| James Yorke — Senior iOS & Android Engineer (portfolio) James Yorke | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| J (@ekroysdj) — X profile X | Social post | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) James Yorke | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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