Hamster Hustle

Hamster Hustle is a pixel-art adventure about the very relatable dream of just… getting off the wheel - Game Boy Color nostalgia, corporate absurdity, and zero HR approval.

Why I made it

I wanted to capture the nostalgia and joy of my favorite Game Boy Color games from childhood - that feeling of escaping into a pixelated world after a long day. Hamster Hustle started as a way to decompress from work by building something I genuinely enjoyed, while sneaking in the kind of workplace satire that's a little too real to say out loud in a meeting, lol. Working on it made me feel like a kid again - just in an adult body, lol.

The details

• Genre: Adventure, Puzzle, Strategy
• Engine: custom game engine in TypeScript (learned a crap ton) - use the cheat code "redacorn" to skip to the end of the game, so you can see how the game ends
• Made with: Claude Code
• Mobile: playable on a phone