Florida Dan
Free · play online in your browser, no download
Dan, 44, has four days before court to prove he is not a Florida Man. He is extremely a Florida Man.
Official site tbone94.github.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked as the play link from the developer's own Reddit post on r/vibecoding and from the repository README.
Rights holder / original work: An Orlando theme park and its mouse mascot (parodied; not named in the sources)
The Orlando finale is set in “SqueakyLand”, a theme park with a mouse mascot (“Mr. Squeaky”), mouse ears for Dan, a “Cheese Castle” and a “Space Squeak Mountain” ride, run by “Squeaky Corp”. The repository's status notes call the region a “theme-park knockoff” and say “Parody only … No real names.” No real park, company or character is named, and no source shows permission from any rights holder. (GitHub (tbone94))
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- Play free — official siteBrowserReleasedFree
Runs in a desktop or mobile browser. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
- Play free — itch.ioitch.ioReleased · itch.io status: PrototypeFree
Plays in the browser on itch.io. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · itch.io
About Florida Dan
A free pixel-art comedy game for the browser, on desktop or phone. Dan is 44, lives in a cabin in the swamp with a jon boat, a motorized cooler and a grudge against a gator named Chuck, and goes to court on Friday for “The Flamingo Incident”; until then he has to stay out of the news. Everything Dan does that is typical of a “Florida Man” prints a breaking headline and raises an allegation meter, and the day ends with the Swamp Gazette, so the headlines are the score and a collection that carries across playthroughs. You fish (side-view, in the style the repository credits to the NES game Blue Marlin), punch and wrestle gators and pythons, dodge Deputy Rhonda, pick up favors and side jobs from neighbours, and take on court cases that move from the swamp to Miami, where Dan valets a pink Lamborghini with no brakes into the Atlantic. The developer's post at launch counted 5 cases and 79 headlines; within days the repository added Daytona, the Florida Keys and an Orlando finale ending at case 11. Beer, joints, mushrooms and “sinus medicine” change how the game looks and controls through a screen shader, and the README warns of swearing and cartoon substances. The game is plain HTML and JavaScript with no engine and no asset files: sprites are drawn in code and all sound is synthesized. The developer says it was made in a few hours one afternoon with Opus 5.5, and nearly every commit in its public repository is co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5. Keyboard, controller and touch controls; progress is saved in the browser.
Content note: The README says the game “Contains swearing, cartoon substances, and Florida”: Dan can drink beer and take joints, mushrooms and “sinus medicine”, which change how the game looks and controls, and a Miami case involves drug smuggling (“square grouper”) and a cartel yacht party. (GitHub (tbone94))
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/vibecoding titled “Vibecoded this game about a Florida man…” (23 Sep 2026, UTC) the developer writes: “Spent a few a hours earlier this afternoon making it with Opus 5.5”. The public repository shows how the work continued: the status file is written as notes for an “owner” who playtests and decides, merged branches are named “worktree-agent-…”, and almost every commit carries a Claude Opus 5.5 co-author line. The developer does not say which Claude product was used.
- Observed53 of the repository's 55 commits (22–26 Sep 2026, cloned on 8 Nov 2026) carry the trailer “Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>”; the .gitignore excludes a .claude/ folder. — GitHub (tbone94)
- ObservedSTATUS.md logs each build as work done for the “owner” (e.g. “Owner playtest pass”, “KEYS-PLAN.md (awaiting owner decisions)”, “NEXT (owner): Orlando”), with automated playtest suites run before each push. — GitHub (tbone94)
Plain HTML and JavaScript with no build step, no engine and no asset files: sprites are strings of pixels with palette swaps for the cast, every sound and the music are synthesized, and a WebGL post-processing shader handles time-of-day colour and the substance effects. Saves go to localStorage and the game can be installed as a web app. According to the repository's status notes, the first version was a risograph-style prototype, replaced the same night by the current version; over the next four days the work added a controller layout, a trailer “director mode” recorded frame by frame with Playwright and ffmpeg, Daytona, the Keys and the Orlando finale, dialogue and bug passes, and automated playtests that play each region end to end, with parallel agent branches merged back into main. The game makes no network calls beyond loading fonts and its own files.
- Engine / framework
- None (vanilla JavaScript)
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- A few hours (first version)Developer ReportedReddit (u/Gambo7592)
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Spent a few a hours earlier this afternoon making it with Opus 5.5”- Vibecoded this game about a Florida man trying to prove he's not a typical “Florida man” (r/vibecoding)
- Source code and README (GitHub)
Verification notes: AI use from the developer's post as u/Gambo7592 on r/vibecoding (23 Sep 2026, 05:42 UTC), read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 8 Nov 2026; the post links the GitHub Pages game. The post's own code claim is short (“Vibecoded…” in the title and “making it with Opus 5.5”); the repository supports it: we cloned github.com/tbone94/florida-dan on 8 Nov 2026 and found 55 commits from 22 Sep 2026, 22:22 to 26 Sep 2026, 23:28 (UTC−4), all by the author name “Happy Camper”, 53 of them with a Claude Opus 5.5 co-author trailer, plus merged “worktree-agent-…” branches and a STATUS.md written as handoff notes to the owner. STATUS.md also says the second version was first published as a claude.ai artifact. We record the tool as Claude because the developer names only the model. Dates: the first commit is on 22 Sep 2026 local time (23 Sep, 02:22 UTC); we use the UTC date. Features from the README and STATUS.md; the post's “5 cases and 79 dumb headlines” describes the launch build, and the repository added Daytona (from case 6) on 23 Sep 2026 and the Keys and Orlando cases (8 to 11) on 24 Sep 2026. STATUS.md also describes a local-only test mode that the developer kept off the public site; it is not described as a feature. The repository has no licence file, so it is not marked open source. itch.io: the account Gambo7592 also lists the game (HTML5, status Prototype, rated 5.0 from 1 rating, AI disclosure ticking AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text; its text counts 7 cases and 70+ headlines); STATUS.md records the itch.io upload on 26 Sep 2026, but no developer page links that URL, so the listing is not marked verified. The developer: GitHub account tbone94 hosts the game and the Reddit account Gambo7592 posted it in the first person; no name, team size or location is given. Fishing is credited in the repository to Blue Marlin (NES) and the reactive world to Goose Game and Goat Simulator as inspiration only; no names or assets from them were found. A Miami case has undercover detectives called “Rocket & Tubbs”. The game's code makes no requests other than its own files and Google Fonts (service worker included); no AI service is called. We did not play the game.
Development history
The first version is pushed to GitHub and published on GitHub Pages; hours later the developer shares it on r/vibecoding, made in a few hours with Opus 5.5.
Updates add the Florida Keys (cases 8–9) and an Orlando finale (cases 10–11, “THE END”), plus a dialogue pass and side quests.
ObservedGitHub (tbone94)Latest commit as of 8 Nov 2026 (26 Sep local time): court cutscenes, shorter trials and a mobile pass.
ObservedGitHub (tbone94)
Game performance
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Browser (official site)
Free in the browser with nothing to install; the developer says it works on phones too. Keyboard, controller (Gamepad API) or on-screen touch controls.
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Not publicly available: Concurrent players (site), Monthly revenue, Gross revenue.
itch.io
Free HTML5 build on itch.io, published by the account Gambo7592 (the developer's Reddit handle); keyboard, gamepad or touchscreen.
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Not publicly available: itch.io rating, Gross revenue.
Sales & revenue (all platforms)
Browser game — there are no downloads to count.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vibecoded this game about a Florida man trying to prove he's not a typical “Florida man” (r/vibecoding) Reddit (u/Gambo7592) | Social post | Sep 23, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| tbone94/florida-dan (README and commit history) GitHub (tbone94) | Repository | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Florida Dan by Gambo7592 itch.io | Store page | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Florida Dan — STATUS.md GitHub (tbone94) | Repository | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) tbone94 | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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