petergpt/codex-usage-game — explained in plain English
Analysis updated 2026-05-18
Play a quick 60-second arcade game directly in your browser.
See an example of a full game built by an AI model from a single screenshot.
Fork the MIT-licensed project to build your own chart-themed mini game.
| petergpt/codex-usage-game | 100/rutgers-pbl-dining-2015 | a15n/a15n_old | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stars | 0 | — | — |
| Language | HTML | HTML | HTML |
| Last pushed | — | 2015-12-01 | 2016-06-18 |
| Maintenance | — | Dormant | Dormant |
| Setup difficulty | easy | easy | easy |
| Complexity | 1/5 | 1/5 | 1/5 |
| Audience | general | general | general |
Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.
Playable directly in a browser via the hosted GitHub Pages link.
FAULTLINE, subtitled Ride the Echo, is a tiny arcade style game that hides inside what looks like a Codex usage chart. It is playable directly in a browser, and the whole idea started as a joke about how a usage graph on a screen could double as a game board. The concept is simple. You ride along living contour lines on the chart, dodging broken signals as you go and collecting echoes along the way. When you get boxed in with nowhere left to move, you can use a phase pulse to slip through danger instead of getting stuck. The goal is to survive for sixty seconds, at which point the transmission is considered restored and you have won the round. Controls are kept minimal so anyone can pick it up immediately. You move between the contour lines using the up and down arrow keys or the W and S keys, and you press space or tap the screen to phase through danger. You can also drag to choose which contour line to move onto. The project credits its idea to an original social media post from a user named thsottiaux, who shared a screenshot of a real Codex usage chart that sparked the idea of turning it into a playable game. The README includes that original chart image side by side with the finished game concept. Notably, the entire game was designed, built, and polished by an AI system called GPT-5.6-Sol-Ultra in about 30 minutes, starting only from that screenshot, with a person then publishing the result. The project is small, written in HTML, and released under the MIT license, so anyone can view, copy, or build on it freely.
A tiny 60-second browser arcade game disguised as a Codex usage chart, built entirely by an AI in 30 minutes.
Mainly HTML. The stack also includes HTML, JavaScript.
Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.
Mainly general.
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