Everybody Dies, a one-life multiplayer runner
A one-button endless runner where everyone in a lobby gets one life, built in a few days with Claude Code and load tested with lobbies of over 1,000 players.
Credits
- Reddit poster Secret-Glass-1047 Source ↗
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The full story
Everybody Dies is a one-button endless runner where everyone in a lobby shares one run: when you die, the next player takes over, and the waiting crowd can throw tomatoes. Built in a few days with Claude Code by someone with little coding experience, it has world and private lobbies, a world record, Stripe skins and a page for streamers, and the server replays every run so scores can't be faked. Claude wrote a load test, and one Fly machine held 1,000 players in one lobby at about 40% of a CPU core. It's TypeScript with about 550 tests.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I built a multiplayer browser runner game and load tested it with 1,000 player+ lobbiesReddit poster: Secret-Glass-1047Posted
The maker's post.
- The project: everybodydies.gg
The game.