CodeTale Idle

Start as a broke intern in a cramped boarding room and grind your way to Senior Developer. Write code, fix bugs, copy from Stack Overflow (nobody saw anything), take freelance contracts, upgrade your gear and workspace, and specialize your career with skill trees.

Features

- Classic incremental loop: click, upgrade, automate — then watch the numbers fly

- 6 places to live & work: from a foldable mattress to owning the big office

- Contract board: freelance gigs with real-time timers (and skippable clients)

- Skill tree: Craft / Systems / Business — pick your specialization

- Rebirth: sell your software house and start over, stronger

- 21 achievements, offline progress, and a pixel-art workspace that evolves with your career

- Everything is programmatic pixel art — hand-built, no stock assets

About this release (v0.4 — soft launch)

This is an early build and I'm looking for feedback, ideas and bug reports. Play for ~10 minutes to get your first comeback boost.

Built with TypeScript + PixiJS. Your save lives in your browser — use the in-game Save Transfer panel to move progress between devices.

Thanks for playing — have fun climbing the ladder!