ABOUT

DESIGN OR DIE is a tiny arcade game about the creative process. You are a designer. You push pixels. Stakeholders queue up behind you with baseball bats. Eventually you die. It is extremely realistic.

HOW TO PLAY: alternate A and S to keep designing. Every press nudges a shape around the canvas and keeps you alive. Stop pressing — or press the same key twice — and your health drains. The coffee wears off at 15 seconds. The whole company has joined in by 32. Nobody survives. Your EDITS score is all that remains.

Built with one HTML file, a 3x5 pixel font, and several unresolved feelings about feedback rounds. No frameworks were harmed.

CONTACT US

Praise, bug reports, urgent requests to make the logo bigger:

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