Week 45: Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026
This week so far (Nov 2 – Nov 8, 2026): 3 stories, 5 games and 10 new tools. The full roundup goes out on Monday.
Leading this week
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A deckbuilder roguelite on a 512 KB Super Nintendo cartridge, balanced by bots that play the real game. The developer says generative AI was used for its code, sound, music and text.
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Zero Escape creator Kotaro Uchikoshi defends AI use and clarifies 3 interview remarks
He says AI wrote the HTML, CSS and JavaScript for the CRASH KEYS website from his own design, leaving it under 30% done before about a month of hand-tuning.
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Pieter Levels ports the Battlefield 1942 demo to the browser with Claude Code
Levels says the agent decompiled the 2002 demo's x86 code into C, compiled it to WebAssembly and added multiplayer, using about 1 million output tokens.
Report: Nearly half of October's new Steam games disclosed AI, community count finds
A Redditor's count of 63,596 Steam releases since January 2024 puts AI disclosures at 49.9% in October 2026, up from 1.7% when Valve's rule began. Small games disclose far more often.
More games
Courtside Crew: Pickleball
A free, turn-based 3D pickleball game and rules teacher for the browser and desktop. Its developer says Claude Code wrote all of the code, in Godot, over about 1,500 commits.
Aurora: Salvage
A free top-down extraction shooter for Windows, macOS and Linux: your gun shoots on its own, and any loot you're carrying when you die is gone.
Lantern Hollow
A free, low-poly Halloween survival game made in Godot: craft, cook and keep a hand-held lantern burning through the nights, in your browser or on Windows.
Word Spies
A free browser team word game in which people and AI models can fill any seat, with every clue graded and live win odds. Guests play simple bots; a free account unlocks LLM players.
