RAM Altman
Free · play online in your browser, no download
A browser stealth parody: put on the hoodie, creep through a sleeping suburb and pull the RAM out of people's computers before the quarter ends.
Official site ckxlab.itch.io, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked as the free browser version from the developer's own Reddit post on r/aigamedev; the itch.io page is published by CKx Lab.
Rights holder / original work: Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) — name and public statements
The title is a play on the name of OpenAI's chief executive, Sam Altman. The game page and the developer's post do not name him; they refer to “a tech CEO” who said on a podcast that it is terrible that people keep RAM a data centre could be using, and the post says he later changed his display name to “Ram Altman”. The player character is a hoodie-wearing tech CEO. The page states that the game is a parody, that its characters, companies and tickers are fictional and that it is not affiliated with or endorsed by anyone. No source shows permission from the person parodied. (itch.io)
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- Play free — itch.ioitch.ioEarly access · itch.io status: In developmentFree
Plays in the browser on itch.io. No download.
Browser (no download) · Mobile · Official link verified Nov 3, 2026.
About RAM Altman
A short stealth parody for desktop and phone browsers. Its starting point, in the developer's words, is a tech CEO who said on a podcast that it is quite terrible that ordinary people keep RAM in their own computers when a data centre could be using it; the game “takes him at his word”. You play that CEO, out at night in a hoodie with a sack, going house to house through a sleeping suburb, pulling memory sticks out of gaming PCs and other devices and talking half-asleep residents into accepting forty pages of terms of service. Opening anything with RAM in it cuts to a pixel-art close-up (seventeen of them, from gaming rigs to smart fridges), where every mistake shows on a noise bar. Getting between houses is its own problem: the garden gnomes take it personally and the traffic stops for nobody. There is a quarterly target, a share price that dips if a paparazzo photographs you on someone's lawn, biohack power-ups and a world leaderboard where your score is your gigabytes times the share price; miss the quarter and the board replaces you with an AI agent. The page calls it a parody whose characters, companies and tickers are fictional and not affiliated with anyone. The developer, a 3D artist who says they do not code, writes that the ideas and the look are theirs and that Claude wrote the code. Free in the browser on itch.io with keyboard or touch controls; the itch.io status is In development.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn a post on r/aigamedev (7 Nov 2026, UTC) the developer writes: “I'm a 3D artist and I don't code. The ideas and the look are mine, and Claude wrote the code.” The post does not say which Claude product or model was used. Under the post the developer took player requests and pushed updates the same day, including controller support that a commenter then reported working.
- Developeritch.io AI disclosure ticks AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Sounds and Text, with the note: “All of it, apart from the concept. And the title. And the design, the game mechanics, the characters, the jokes, the designer's walk, and a long list of notes on why things weren't funny yet. … Apart from that, an AI in a data centre built the game”. — itch.io
A single-page HTML5 game built on Three.js (r128, loaded from a CDN in the build we checked), with voxel houses, an isometric view and pixel-art close-ups for each device you take RAM from. The developer says the ideas and the look are theirs and the code was written by Claude; the itch.io AI disclosure also ticks graphics, sounds and text, and its note credits the developer with the concept, title, design, mechanics, characters and jokes. The only network call we found in the build is to the game's own leaderboard API; the game does not call an AI service.
- Engine / framework
- Three.js
- Languages
- JavaScript
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Initial build time
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“I'm a 3D artist and I don't code. The ideas and the look are mine, and Claude wrote the code.”- I'm a 3D artist who can't code. Didn't stop me making a browser topical stealth game (r/aigamedev)
- RAM Altman is out (devlog)
Verification notes: AI use from the developer's post as u/cormaction on r/aigamedev (7 Nov 2026, 13:21 UTC) and the developer's replies under it, read from the Arctic Shift Reddit archive on 8 Nov 2026; the post links the itch.io page. Features, controls, the parody disclaimer, tags and the AI disclosure from the itch.io page and the launch devlog, re-checked on 8 Nov 2026. The developer: the itch.io page is published by CKx Lab; the Reddit poster writes in the first person and gives no name, team size or location. The post names Claude without saying whether it was the chat app or Claude Code, so the tool is recorded as Claude. The post says the look is the developer's own, while the itch.io AI disclosure also ticks Graphics; both are recorded as stated. itch.io: published 5 Nov 2026, 11:38 UTC (devlog 11:36 UTC), updated 7 Nov 2026, 22:12 UTC; status In development; HTML5; keyboard and touchscreen inputs listed; no rating or download count shown. Under the post a commenter asked for gamepad support with rumble and later reported that it worked after the developer's update; the itch.io inputs field did not list a gamepad on 8 Nov 2026. We checked the HTML5 build (a single index.html loading Three.js r128 and Google Fonts): its only remote endpoint is the game's leaderboard API on vercel.app; no AI service URL was found. The page also has an unnamed designer character who joins “in an advisory capacity”; no source says whom it refers to, so it is not recorded as IP. The post's score on Arctic Shift was 185 with 40 comments (observed; not a metric). We did not play the game.
Development history
Published on itch.io as a free browser game for desktop and phone, with a launch devlog.
The developer shares the game on r/aigamedev, saying the ideas and the look are theirs and Claude wrote the code, and pushes updates in response to players' comments.
DeveloperReddit (u/cormaction)
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itch.io
Free in desktop and phone browsers (HTML5). Keyboard (WASD, sneak, act, item, FLIR) or touch controls with on-screen buttons.
Not publicly available: itch.io rating, Gross revenue.
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Sources
| Source | Type | Published | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|
| I'm a 3D artist who can't code. Didn't stop me making a browser topical stealth game about a “certain” tech CEO who stalks your neighbourhood for unsupervised RAM. (r/aigamedev) Reddit (u/cormaction) | Social post | Nov 7, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| RAM Altman by CKx Lab itch.io | Store page | Nov 5, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| RAM Altman is out itch.io devlog (CKx Lab) | Devlog | Nov 5, 2026 | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) CKx Lab | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
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