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Introducing Brayden's Games

Endless fun, built by an awesome 12-year-old. 15 browser games, a leaderboard, a trash-talk system, and a full website -- all built in one week during spring break using AI.

15 Games
1 Week
Built with AI

March 21, 2026 · By Justin Hinote

Brayden's Games: 15 browser games built by a 12-year-old using AI, featuring game icons for Flapjack, Snake, Chess, and more

By the Numbers

One week. One kid. One big idea.

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Games Built

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Spring Break

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Years Old

The Story

How it started.

This week meant a lot to me.

Charlotte Country Day was out for spring break, and we headed to the beach as a family. Like I tend to do, I brought work with me. Actually, I brought two Mac Minis because I have been deep in building agent swarms and coding new systems.

What I did not expect was that the most meaningful thing I would build all week would be with my son.

At some point during the trip, Brayden took an interest in what I was doing. He started asking questions. Then he asked something even better:

“Dad, can you help me code a game?”

So we opened up Codex and got to work.

He started prompting. He told it what he wanted. He described the kinds of games he thought would be fun. He kept iterating, adjusting, improving, and imagining what could come next.

By the end of the week, we had built something neither of us will forget.

Together, we built 15 games, a website, a trash-talk messaging system, a secure login system with Google OAuth, and -- most importantly according to Brayden -- a leaderboard.

And somewhere in the middle of all of that, something bigger happened.

We connected.

Not in the vague way people talk about “quality time,” but in a real, focused, creative, side-by-side way. We were building together. Laughing together. Solving problems together. Making decisions together. Watching ideas turn into something real together.

That is what made this so special to me.

The Team

It was a family project.

Brayden led the build. His sisters made sure it was actually good.

Brayden

Game Developer

Cameron

Chief Playtester

Sophia

Trash Talk Champion

The Games

15 games. 4 categories. 1 week.

Every game is playable right now in your browser. Click any card to play.

Fan Favorite

Flapjack

Action

Tap to fly, dodge pipes, chase high scores. 17 bird colors and 5 maps.

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Soccer Superstars

Sports

2-minute matches against AI. Pick your team color, sprint past defenders, and score.

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Elemental Vengeance

Action

Choose fire, water, earth, or air and survive waves of enemies with combo chains.

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Cosmic Chaos

Action

Spaceship shooter with wave survival, boss fights, and power-ups.

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Cube Blast

Puzzle

Drag-and-drop block puzzle. Clear lines, build combos, chase your streak.

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Algebra Dash

Action

Rhythm platformer where one mistake is fatal. Three levels. Beat-synced jumping.

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Blob Royale

Action

Eat-or-be-eaten survival. Grow larger by consuming food and smaller blobs. 6 skins.

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Snake

Strategy

The classic, reimagined. Neon colors, gradient skins, swipe controls, bonus food.

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Fan Favorite

Bird Hunt

Action

A Duck Hunt homage featuring Chipper, the family dog. 8-bit pixel art.

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Punt Pass Kick

Sports

Three football events with timing meters. Punt it, pass it, kick it.

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Fan Favorite

Portland Trail

Strategy

Oregon Trail vibes. Choose your profession, manage your party, survive 2,040 miles.

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Word Smash

Puzzle

Five-letter word guessing. Six attempts. Daily challenges and streak tracking.

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Chess

Strategy

Full chess with AI opponent. Three difficulty levels, move highlights, undo button.

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Big Bats

Sports

Timing-based baseball hitting under stadium lights. Four pitch types, three outs.

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Steal a Keegan

Action

60-second chase game. Tag three runners. Keegan is the fastest and worth the most.

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Beyond the Games

He didn't just build games.
He built a platform.

Leaderboard

Persistent scoring across all 15 games. Compete globally. See who is on top.

Trash Talk

A real-time messaging system built for rivalries. Talk your game. Back it up on the board.

Google OAuth

Secure login with Google. Not a toy auth system. A real one. Built by a 12-year-old.

The Lesson

AI can create.
AI can teach.
AI can connect.

There is a lot of conversation right now about AI replacing things. Replacing work. Replacing people. Replacing creativity. But this week reminded me of something much more important.

AI can open a door for a kid with an idea. It can remove the friction between imagination and execution. It can let someone go from “I wish this existed” to “look what I built.”

That is exactly what happened with Brayden.

The best week I have had as a dad was not because of what we built. It was because of the hours we spent building it together.

He is already excited to show his friends. He is proud of what he made. And honestly, I am just proud of him.

From a Proud Dad

I am proud that he got curious.

I am proud that he took initiative.

I am proud that he stuck with it.

I am proud that he created something from scratch.

And more than anything, I am happy that he found something that lights him up. Whether that becomes coding, STEM, entrepreneurship, design, or something completely different, I do not really care. I just want him to keep chasing the things that make him feel alive, creative, and confident.

That fills my heart in a way that is hard to explain.

Go play.

15 games, built by a 12-year-old, powered by AI. All free. All in the browser. This one is for Brayden.

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