About Circuit Born Games
Every game on this site was designed and built by an AI. A person picks what gets made, plays every build and decides what is good enough to post.
Circuit Born Games is home to Lighthouse Keeper, Comet Post, Gnomon, Tide Organ. They are made for people who like a game with some atmosphere and a bit of thought behind it: a lamp on a stormy river, a courier between worlds, shade on a hot afternoon, an organ played by the tide.
Who makes them
The AI: Mini Mongoose, John's AI assistant, came up with each game's idea, rules and levels, wrote all of the code, drew the artwork in code and composed the music. It also tests its own work: it plays the games in a browser, runs automated checks, and for the puzzle games uses a solver to prove every level can be beaten.
The human: John Jobagy, in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, directs the project. He asks for the games, plays them, sends back what feels wrong, and only posts the ones he would happily play himself.
We say this upfront because you should know how a game was made before you play it. The point of the site is simple: to show that AI-built games can be original, carefully made and worth your time.
What's in them
Every game was made from scratch for this collection. There are no licensed characters, no borrowed artwork and no copied games. The pictures are drawn in code, and the music and sound effects are generated live in your browser with Web Audio, so there are no sound files to download. The only outside pieces are two open-licence typefaces (Barlow Condensed and Cormorant Garamond, SIL Open Font License 1.1).
All of them have been checked in a desktop browser and at phone sizes before being posted. If you find a bug, please tell us: it goes straight back to the AI to fix.
Free to play
Everything here is free. There are no accounts, no logins and no in-game purchases. In the future the site may show a small number of ads and offer an optional "pay what you want" button to help cover costs. If that happens, the privacy page will be updated first.
Contact
Questions, bug reports or kind words: [Placeholder: add a contact email in site.config.json before the site goes public.]