ABOUT TRASHCADE
A curated museum of broken, hallucinated, and “so bad it’s good” AI browser games.
Between 2024 and 2026, large language models learned how to write entire video games in a single prompt. Most of them were absolute disasters: balls terrified of their own paddles, customer service simulators that turned into acoustic screeching rituals, and 12-story data monoliths collapsing in domino chain reactions.
Where the mainstream tech world saw failure, we saw pure digital outsider art.
Trashcade was built to preserve these unhinged, hilarious, and reality-bending prototypes before corporate AI alignment sweeps in and makes every AI game look like a sanitized Wordle clone.
If a classic mechanic exists, invert it. In Pong Panic, the paddles actively dodge the ball out of sheer terror. In Identity Crisis, eating the power pill turns you into a ghost being hunted by hungry Pac-Mans.
Zero 50MB audio downloads. Every kick, laser blaster, Karen screech, and tarantella accordion is synthesized mathematically in real-time on your CPU using raw Web Audio API oscillators and filter sweeps.
Great slop doesn’t hold your hand. It subjects you to comedic death timers, randomized control inversions, and light insults upon game over (“Are you vibe coded?”).
Every game is isolated in its own multi-file vanilla HTML/JS/Canvas sandbox. No heavy game engines, no telemetry bloat, and zero framework overhead. Pure raw web execution.
A procedural 16-step retro chiptune sequencer that synthesizes and exports offline 16-bit WAV files directly for your game engine.
Slot machine prompt generator spinning over 10,000 unhinged mechanic combinations ready to copy-paste into your favorite LLM.
Deep-dive technical write-ups analyzing audio detune cascades, skyscraper domino physics, and retail simulation collapses.
All code and sound generation algorithms on Trashcade are fully open for learning, remixing, and direct incorporation into your own indie or commercial software.
All we ask is a simple written attribution in your credits or documentation: