Tech Bros: Save the World
A satirical pixel-art survivor shooter in which caricatured tech founders fight their way to a rogue AI.
Official site techbrosgame.app, verified Nov 3, 2026. Linked from the developer's X profile (@TheJohnnyStaley, display name jstaley), whose bio reads “2026 Game Jam: http://techbrosgame.app”; the same URL is the entry URL in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data.
Rights holder / original work: Real public figures (Marc Andreessen, Lex Fridman, David Sacks, Pieter Levels, Jensen Huang, Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, JD Vance, Sam Altman, Jack Dorsey, Donald Trump, Garry Tan); company and product names (Meta, Twitter/X, Y Combinator, OpenAI, Tesla Model Y, Microsoft's Clippy, Anthropic's Claude)
A satire whose six playable characters are named after real tech figures and whose bosses are caricatures of real people (“Lizard Zuckerberg”, “Robo-Trump”, “Sam Alt-Man” and others) and of products such as Clippy, a Tesla Model Y, GPT and Claude; levels are named after Meta, Twitter/X, the YC campus and OpenAI. A title-screen disclaimer says these are fictional depictions of real public figures for satire and parody. No source shows permission from the people or companies named. (techbrosgame.app)
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About Tech Bros: Save the World
A single-player pixel-art survivor shooter in the browser, described on its page as a chaotic survival game where Silicon Valley fights to shut down rogue AI. The official submission calls it a satire-heavy, story-oriented survivors-like based on famous technocrats as players and bosses. You pick one of six playable characters (caricatures of Marc Andreessen, Lex Fridman, David Sacks, Pieter Levels, Jensen Huang and Elon Musk), then move across an overworld map of ten locations, among them a junkyard, a dealership, Meta, Twitter/X, the YC campus, a data center and OpenAI, unlocked one after another. Each round throws waves of robots and other enemies at you, with level-up upgrade cards, a shop and scripted dialogue, and ends in a boss fight against figures such as “Lizard Zuckerberg”, “Robo-Trump” and “Sam Alt-Man”. A title-screen disclaimer says the real public figures are fictional depictions for satire and parody. The entrant names Vampire Survivors and Megabonk as the core gameplay inspiration. 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 and Codex as the tools. It finished 63rd of 945 entries. Free, on desktop; the submission marks it as not mobile-ready.
How it was built
Partially verifiedIn the official Vibe Jam 2026 submission the entrant lists the tools as “Claude Code and Codex” and answers Yes to the AI-written field. The submission does not say how the work was split between the two tools or which models ran them, and it covers the jam version only.
- OfficialJam rule 3: at least 90% of the code has to be written by AI. — Vibe Jam (Pieter Levels)
Named alongside Claude Code in the entrant's official Vibe Jam 2026 submission (“Claude Code and Codex”). What Codex did, as opposed to Claude Code, is not stated.
- 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 on PixiJS (with GSAP for animation), with Claude Code and Codex named as the tools. The game is written as about 70 plain JavaScript modules (systems for waves, weapons, XP, items, the shop and bosses, plus data files for characters, bosses and dialogue) and loads Tiled maps, pixel-art sprite sheets and music files.
- Engine / framework
- PixiJS
- Languages
- Not disclosed
- Team size
- Not disclosed
- Development time
- Not disclosed
- Development cost
- Not disclosed
- AI-written code
- Not disclosed
“@levelsio posted about it and I had an open April.”Verification notes: Tools (Claude Code and Codex), engine, genre, pitch, inspiration and the multiplayer (No), mobile (No) and portal flags from the entrant's answers in the official Vibe Jam 2026 games data (submitted 30 Apr 2026, 23:17 UTC; final rank 63 of 945 entries, no award); rule 3 on the jam page requires at least 90% AI-written code. Developer: the X account @TheJohnnyStaley (display name jstaley) is the handle in the jam data, and its bio links the game; no full name is recorded and team size is not stated (the inspiration answer suggests a solo project but does not say so). Characters, bosses, locations, rounds and the title-screen disclaimer come from the game's scripts; the bosses also include “Clippy”, a “Tesla Model Y”, “JD Vance”, “Feral Jack Dorsey”, “Garry Tan” and “GPT-∞”, and the script defines a secret extra round with a “Claude” boss. The scripts contain an unfinished co-op mode that is switched off and hidden from players (“Parked for post-jam”), and on-screen touch controls, although the submission marks the game as not mobile-ready; neither is presented as a feature. We fetched all 69 scripts: “OpenAI” appears only as a level name and art file, and dialogue for the AI characters is written into the scripts; the network calls go only to the game's own files, Google Analytics and the jam widget and portal, and no calls to AI services were found. The jam page's widget counters showed 362 plays and 293 portal transfers for techbrosgame.app on 4 Nov 2026 (observed; sessions, not players or downloads, so not recorded as metrics). 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); the jam required at least 90% AI-written code. Final rank 63 of 945 entries, no award.
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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 |
| Tech Bros: Save the World (game page and scripts) techbrosgame.app | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| jstaley (@TheJohnnyStaley) — X profile X | Social post | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
| Official game page (language check) techbrosgame.app | Official site | Not confirmed | Nov 3, 2026 |
