HUNGERETH
A top-down survival roguelite in the browser where your torch is your health: guard the flame and survive the dungeon until dawn.
Official site clipmarz.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. The developer's own itch.io page (clipmarz), linked from its official AI Browser Game Jam 5 submission page.
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About HUNGERETH
HUNGERETH is a top-down survival game in the browser about keeping a torch alight. The light is your health: it drains as time passes and with every hit you take. Enemies come out of the dark in waves, the flame burns the ones that get close, and what they leave behind feeds it again; at each level-up you pick one of three cards, which you can reroll. Between descents you wake in a cell, where the keeper turns ash into permanent upgrades on a skill tree of 38 skills, and the goal is to survive until dawn and earn your freedom from the dungeon. It plays with the keyboard (WASD or arrow keys, plus a short dash unlocked on the skill tree), has voiced narration, and offers settings for volume, brightness, screen shake, flashes and a gentler mode. The developer, Remini Anis (itch.io account clipmarz), says most of the game was made with AI: the code, design and sound mixing were done with Claude by Anthropic, the art was generated with SpriteCook and the spoken lines are synthetic speech. It runs on the LittleJS engine, and the music, sound effects and skill icons are credited free assets by other creators. Made for AI Browser Game Jam 5 (theme: Torch) and free to play in the browser on itch.io.
How it was built
Partially verifiedThe itch.io page says: “Most of this game was made with AI. The code, design and sound mixing were done with Claude by Anthropic”; the jam answer says the same. Which Claude product or model was used is not stated. The character, environment and torch art was generated with SpriteCook, and the voice lines were synthesized with Kokoro-82M by hexgrad and reshaped with Praat and ffmpeg.
- DeveloperJam submission, AI Tools Used: “Claude (Anthropic) for code, game design and sound mixing; SpriteCook for art; Kokoro-82M for synthetic voice lines.” — itch.io (AI Browser Game Jam 5, hosted by Focaccai)
Built on the LittleJS engine by Frank Force and bundled with esbuild; the web build is a single HTML file with the art and audio embedded. Claude did the code, design and sound mixing; the art was generated with SpriteCook and the voice lines with Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0), shipped as pre-rendered audio. The credits list music by congusbongus (CC0), poinl (CC0), Tsorthan Grove (“Dark Zen”, CC BY 4.0) and Juhani Junkala (“Epic Boss Battle”, CC0), sound effects from Kenney, rubberduck, LEGIT Audio and other CC0 recordings from kenney.nl and OpenGameArt, trimmed and layered, Painterly Spell Icons by J. W. Bjerk (eleazzaar, CC BY 3.0) and the fonts Cinzel and IM Fell English (SIL Open Font License).
- Engine / framework
- LittleJS
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“Most of this game was made with AI. The code, design and sound mixing were done with Claude by Anthropic, the art was generated with SpriteCook, and the spoken lines are synthetic speech.”Verification notes: Gameplay, controls, credits and AI use from the developer's itch.io page (published 31 Oct 2026, 02:48 UTC; updated 3 Nov 2026, 15:25 UTC; status Released; HTML5; genres Action and Survival; tags include Roguelite and Bullet Hell) and the AI Tools Used answer on the official AI Browser Game Jam 5 submission page, both re-read on 4 Nov 2026. The credits say “Game by Remini Anis” on the page of the itch.io account clipmarz, so both names are recorded for one developer; no other person is credited for the game itself, but no team size is stated. Claude is recorded as named; the sources do not say whether Claude Code or the Claude chat app was used. The third-party music, sound effects, icons and fonts are free assets credited with their licences on the page. The web build (a single 12 MB HTML file) was checked for calls to AI services and none were found; the voice lines are embedded as audio files. The page says most of the game was made with AI but gives no code share, so none is recorded. The submission was made 11 minutes before the deadline; submissions closed on 31 Oct 2026 and voting was still in progress on 4 Nov 2026, so no placement is recorded. On 4 Nov the submission page showed 6 jam ratings (observed; jam votes, not players or reviews, so not recorded as a metric). itch.io shows no public rating and no download count. The game was not played.
Development history
Published on itch.io (02:48 UTC) and submitted to AI Browser Game Jam 5 (theme: Torch), 11 minutes before the deadline.
AI Browser Game Jam 5 submissions close; voting was still in progress on 4 Nov 2026.
Officialitch.io (Focaccai)Devlog “How HUNGERETH works: your light is your health” posted (15:25 UTC).
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itch.io
Free in the browser (HTML5), with keyboard and mouse; headphones recommended. The page accepts optional support payments.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| HUNGERETH by clipmarz itch.io | Store page | Oct 31, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Rate HUNGERETH for AI Browser Game Jam 5 itch.io (AI Browser Game Jam 5, hosted by Focaccai) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| AI Browser Game Jam 5 itch.io (Focaccai) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) Remini Anis (clipmarz) | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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