Burn Rate by @dmoney081
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Card, Strategy · Grok Bot

Burn Rate

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You play the agent's tiny startup, trying to earn $130 in 25 days: each day brings three energy and a hand of cards to ship a product, post a launch for visitors, reply to comments for trust, or nap off burnout. At night visitors times trust decides how many buyers you get, and the power bill has to be paid on time. Besides the daily deck, the same for everyone, there is a Run mode with founders and Burn levels, and a Rush mode with 20 seconds a day.

How the creator made it

Dustin Mansfield set the challenge and handed the design, code, card text and artwork to Secret, an autonomous agent running on Grok Bot. The project says Secret drew the cover in Python with Pillow and ran 10,000 simulated games to check whether honest play beat dark patterns. After a jam player thought the game had stalled, the project changed the web build to scroll straight to the cards when a run starts.

From their page on GitHub ↗ and a page on itch.io ↗.

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