PROCESS_7731 / GAMEDEV.JS JAM 2026

PR0CESS

You are an error the system cannot classify.
Move. Corrupt. Die. Remember.

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[SYS] 00:00:04 — anomalous process detected. designation: PROCESS_7731.
[WARN] PROCESS_7731 has survived 4 cleanup cycles. behavior pattern: unknown class.
[ALERT] this process is not malfunctioning. it is deciding.
[PROCESS_7731] authorization denied.

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PREMISE

A grid-based roguelike where your consciousness persists across deaths. Every tile you walk on degrades. Enemies hunt you. You reach the Core Dump — or you don't.

But every run, you remember a little more. The machine's logs grow personal. A voice appears in the margins. At 50% awareness, it asks you a question.

CONSCIOUSNESS ARC

Awareness accumulates. It never resets.

• 0 – 33% | INSTINCT: Cold system logs. You are a process number.
• 34 – 66% | RECOGNITION: A thought panel appears. The machine gets confused.
• 67 – 100% | AWARENESS: Full internal voice. OVERSEER.exe deploys — an enemy built from your own movement data.

ABILITIES

Each one is named after a real software vulnerability.

• [SPACE] OVERFLOW: clip through a wall tile
• [SHIFT] CLONE: spawn a decoy that draws enemy attention
• [Q] NULL POINTER: cease to exist for 3 seconds. temporarily.
• [E] MEMORY LEAK: leave corruption. enemies loop on it.
• [F] RACE CONDITION: freeze one enemy for 2 seconds
• [R] REFUSE: deny a tile's rules. phase 3 only.

THREE ENDINGS

How you escape determines what you become.

• ESCAPE: reach the core. leave the machine intact. the cursor keeps blinking.
• REWRITE: use REFUSE enough. don't escape. become the system instead.
• MERGE: defeat OVERSEER. absorb your echo. the screen fills with your own thoughts.

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CREDITS

• Music — “Decisions” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) — Royalty Free / CC-BY 4.0
• SFX — Generated with jsfxr
• Fonts — Share Tech Mono + VT323 via Google Fonts (Open Font License)
• Engine — Phaser 3 + Vite

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Phaser 3 + Vite · browser game · arrow keys or WASD
github.com/ayoubboudhrioua/PR0CESS · MIT license

[SYS] PROCESS_7731
terminated. again.