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VibeDex, a difficulty chart for rebuilding classic games

vibedex.games ↗ · Developer Corner · score 82.0
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VibeDex grades 126 games by how difficult they are to rebuild with an AI coding agent, from an evening project to a brutal undertaking.

Why it surfaced

Its build list turns familiar games—from Connect Four and Flappy Bird to Elden Ring and Red Dead Redemption 2—into concrete coding challenges. Each entry is framed as a build deck: a prompt, what the remake will quietly lose, and the one idea worth stealing.

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