OUT OF OFFICE: European Business Simulator
Free · play online in your browser, no download
An idle parody of the European summer: keep your company technically alive while you do nothing but send out-of-office replies.
Official site business-tycoon-european-summer-edi.vercel.app, verified Nov 3, 2026. Entry URL submitted by the entrant in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data under the handle @jicecream; the page's credit “Made by @jicecream” links the same profile. No other developer-owned page links the game.
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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 OUT OF OFFICE: European Business Simulator
An idle clicker in the browser that the page calls “a loving parody of the European summer work ethic”. You run a business somewhere in Europe, it is summer, and the goal is to keep the company technically alive while actually doing nothing. Out-of-office replies are the currency: you farm them, turn them into cash flow and keep production above the business's demand, buying ways to automate your absence, from an Auto-Reply Bot and an Intern on Gap Year to a Ferme en Août Protocol, a Ministry of Long Weekends and a Continental OOO Grid. Longer vacations, from a cheeky fortnight to June-to-September and finally Infinite Summer, speed up the replies, and retiring resets progress for Tycoon Points that permanently add 10% to production each. A joke “European Superintelligence” trained on delayed replies is part of the satire, not a call to an AI service. The entrant pitches it as “A 100% realistic simulation of running a European Business in the summer”. 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 Claude Code as the tool. It finished 401st of 945 entries. Free in the browser.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn the official Vibe Jam 2026 submission the entrant lists Claude Code as the tool and answers Yes to the AI-written field. No devlog describes how Claude Code 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 for the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 as a single HTML page with its own JavaScript and CSS and no game engine, with Claude Code named as the tool. Progress is saved in the browser.
- Engine / framework
- None (vanilla JavaScript)
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“A 100% realistic simulation of running a European Business in the summer”Verification notes: Tool (Claude Code), engine (HTML/CSS/JS), genre (Simulation), pitch, inspiration and the multiplayer (No), mobile (Yes) and portal (No) flags from the entrant's answers in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data (submitted 30 Apr 2026, 16:20 UTC; final rank 401 of 945 entries, no award), re-read on 5 Nov 2026; rule 3 on the jam page requires at least 90% AI-written code. In the inspiration field the entrant says they run a European business themselves. Developer: the jam data gives the handle @jicecream (display name Jonathan Courtney, location Berlin; the X bio reads “Founder facilitator.com, ajsmart.com and host of The Unscheduled CEO podcast”), and the page credits “Made by @jicecream”. The game is on a generic vercel.app address, so the attribution rests on the jam entry and that credit. Team size is not stated. Upgrades, vacation tiers and the retirement system come from the page and its inline script; the game was not played. The page loads no scripts other than the jam widget and makes no calls to AI services. The release date is not stated; the jam submission is dated 30 Apr 2026.
Development history
Entered in the Cursor Vibe Jam 2026 (submission date in the official games data, 16:20 UTC); the jam required at least 90% AI-written code. Final rank 401 of 945 entries, no award.
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Sales & revenue (all platforms)
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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 |
| OUT OF OFFICE: European Business Simulator (game page and script) Jonathan Courtney | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Jonathan Courtney (@jicecream) — X profile X | Social post | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) Jonathan Courtney | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
