Go Get the Thing!
Free · play online in your browser, no download
A tiny incremental game: walk onto the glowing Thing for coins before the clock runs out, then buy upgrades, helpers and eventually a prestige reset. The developer says it was written with Claude Code.
Official site thegrumpygamedev.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. The developer's own itch.io page (The Grumpy GameDev).
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About Go Get the Thing!
Go Get the Thing! is a small free incremental game for the browser. You are a small blue person in a walled room with one glowing Thing; walk onto it and it pays out coins, then turns up somewhere else. When the clock runs out the run is over and you spend your coins in the shop on a higher Thing value, longer runs, more Things in the room, faster feet, and helpers that fetch Things for you and can be made quicker. When upgrades start to crawl you can prestige, trading the era's coins for gems and starting over, and spend the gems on perks that speed up the next era, such as a chance of extra seconds when a Thing is picked up and lucky coins worth five times as much. An update on 30 Oct 2026 added three new rooms to unlock and a gem perk called COIN BOOST; switches for automatic starts, purchases and play had arrived earlier that week. It plays with the arrow keys or a gamepad, with on-screen buttons for mouse or touch, and saves in the browser after every run and purchase. The developer, The Grumpy GameDev, says the game was written with Claude Code, while the art, the sounds and the room come from the developer's own asset tools, the Anvil of SPLORR!!. Free on itch.io and on a GitHub Pages build that the developer calls the latest version.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe itch.io page says: “The game was written with Claude Code (generative AI).” It credits the art, the sounds and the room to the Anvil of SPLORR!!, the developer's own asset tools. The page gives no share of AI-written code and names no model; its footer says the page itself was last edited by Claude, an AI agent, on behalf of The Grumpy GameDev.
Written with Claude Code, per the itch.io page; the art, sound effects and room come from the Anvil of SPLORR!!, the developer's own asset tools. The GitHub Pages build loads Odin's JavaScript runtime (odin.js) and a WebAssembly file (observed), the same Odin-to-WebAssembly setup as the developer's Torch Passers of SPLORR!!. Devlog posts are signed as posted by Claude, an AI agent, on the developer's behalf.
- Engine / framework
- None (Odin compiled to WebAssembly)
- Languages
- Odin
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“The game was written with Claude Code (generative AI).”Verification notes: AI use from the itch.io page, read on 6 Nov 2026: “The game was written with Claude Code (generative AI).” No share of AI-written code is given, so none is recorded. The page's footer says it was last edited by Claude, an AI agent, on behalf of The Grumpy GameDev, and the devlog is signed the same way, so the statement was written by an agent for the developer; the account is the same human developer already listed for Torch Passers of SPLORR!!. The itch.io AI disclosure ticks AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text, although the page credits the art and sounds to the developer's own tools. Publication (23 Oct 2026, 09:03 UTC) and the update of 30 Oct 2026 (09:05 UTC) from the itch.io page and devlog. itch.io lists the genre as Survival; we list it as casual and idle from the description. The GitHub Pages build loads odin.js and a WebAssembly file (observed 6 Nov 2026), and a check of the itch.io build found no calls to AI services. Team size is not stated. The game was not played.
Development history
Published on itch.io (09:03 UTC).
Observeditch.ioUpdate: three new rooms, the COIN BOOST gem perk and a GitHub Pages build that always carries the newest version; the devlog also recaps automation switches added earlier that week.
Game performance
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itch.io
Free in the browser (HTML5); arrow keys or a gamepad, with on-screen buttons for mouse or touch. Progress is saved in the browser after every run and purchase. The developer says this build can lag behind the GitHub Pages build.
Not publicly available: itch.io rating, Gross revenue.
Browser (official site)
Free in the browser; the developer calls this GitHub Pages build the “latest version, always current”.
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Not publicly available: Concurrent players (site), Monthly revenue, Gross revenue.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Go Get the Thing! by The Grumpy GameDev itch.io | Store page | Oct 23, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Three new rooms, COIN BOOST, and a Pages build itch.io (The Grumpy GameDev devlog) | Devlog | Oct 30, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Go Get the Thing! (GitHub Pages build) playdeezgames.github.io | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) The Grumpy GameDev | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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