FEEDFALL, hold the last human feed

IMPORTANT NOTE

This game is educational. It showcases the patterns of low-quality "slop" content flooding our feeds, and reminds us we already have the common sense to spot and resist it. It grew out of my own daily struggle as a consumer and creator of online content.

THREE THINGS WORTH STATING CLEARLY

AI is not the cause of slop. Intention and behavior are. AI is just a tool for bringing original ideas to life faster.
These patterns are indicators, not verdicts. Plenty of genuine human-made content shows one or more of these traits, often because the format seems to work. Matching a pattern doesn't make something slop.
The ten categories aren't exhaustive. More exist, and more will come.

Some elements here are exaggerated on purpose. It's a game, not a research paper.

Fittingly, it was built with AI: mainly Claude Fable 5 and Opus 5, plus GPT Image 2 and Kling 3 for images and video.

I'm Tianyu Xu, an AI educator. I help teams use AI safely and effectively at work. Follow me on LinkedIn or reach out if your team needs training or content help.

FIELD MANUAL

Stop the slop from reaching the Beacon. Every leak corrupts Signal Integrity, and at zero the feed is lost. THE ALGORITHM arrives every tenth wave, and past wave 20 the feed stops playing fair: the slop gets exponentially meaner. How deep the run goes is yours to find out. Survive to the end and the feed is human again.

Building the line

Towers go on concrete pads. Tap a pad, or press 1 to 6 and then pick a pad. Tap a tower you already own to upgrade it through three levels, or sell it back for 70% of everything you spent on it.

Cat squads go on open ground beside a street. Press 7, 8, 9 or 0, or tap a SQUAD card, then pick the ground. Melee cats hold ground slop where they stand and respawn at their rally point. Select a squad and pick new ground to move it.

Attention

Deleting slop earns Attention, and Attention buys everything. Calling the next wave early pays a bonus on top. PROTOCOLS are permanent upgrades that carry across every wave of the run.

Reading the slop

Tap any enemy to pause the fight and open its dossier: what it is in the real world, how to fight it in real life, and what beats it here. A live Copy-Paste Machine can be reported straight from its dossier.

Counters

Muse splash breaks Hound packs. Agent Turrets bring down Vultures.
Kill Influencer Husks first: their aura hastes everything near them.
Slop Golems split into Sloplings when they die, so leave room behind the line.
The Critical Lens unmasks Deepfake Mimics.
A slowed Engagement Farmer takes +40% from everything, so one Community Watchtower makes the whole line hit harder.
Analytics Hubs flag Copy-Paste Machines and crack Botnet shields.
Comment Bait cannot bait Ballistas, Analytics Hubs or cats.

Camera

Drag orbits, right-drag or two fingers pan, wheel or pinch zooms. CINEMATIC, or the V key, watches the battle like a film.

About this game

It is educational, and the patterns it teaches are indicators rather than verdicts.

RESILIENCE PROTOCOLS

FEEDFALL