OpenIdle vs From The Mud

You've got a laptop, a credit card, and an opinion about AGI. Time to found your own AI lab. OpenIdle is a satirical idle game about the race to artificial general intelligence — and the way the finish line keeps politely moving. Found a company in a garage, train a model lineage, hire a workforce, generate hype, and allocate compute, data, and influence as you climb toward a post-AGI prestige loop. Hire, ship, hype, rebalance, and watch the target move with institutional grace. Cross an AGI goalpost and the definition quietly advances. Prestige, refound, and run the same race a little sharper. The numbers go up. The goalposts go further. - Bootstrap an AI lab from a garage to a sprawling research org - Train a model line with a personality — and opinions - Split compute, data, and influence across competing priorities - Ride market events, generate hype, ship on schedule - Cross AGI goalposts that refuse to hold still - Prestige into a faster, stranger version of the loop All companies and models depicted are fictional. The compute, tokens, alignment budgets, and moving goalposts they abstract are not. The treadmill, as far as we can tell, is perpetual.

FROM THE MUD is a come-up life simulator. You start broke with a ticking life clock, and every action spends a day. Turn pocket change into an empire before time runs out. - Grind the block: buy low, grade your product, flip it or put runners on it. - Build a music career: cop beats, drop singles, press CDs, sling merch, earn royalties. - Play the market: a live, volatile in-game crypto market and a buy-low sell-high pawn game. - Go legit: buy businesses and real estate for passive income every single day. - Beat the clock: better housing, food, and insurance buy back years of life. - Achievements, save/continue, and a full run recap when your time runs out. Everything is fictional. All currency is virtual and cannot be cashed out.