This repository preserves the first AI Game Jam build and is no longer the active version. Development has moved to Grand Theft Austerity: Open World — a proper open-world Bucharest with a larger map, full characters, free roam, traffic, trams, police, progression, interiors and the same story rebuilt at a much bigger scale.
Take back the House.
Built with Codex + GPT-5.6 sol for AI Game Jam #1. Play the browser build.
Grand Theft Austerity is a five-to-eight-minute third-person satire set in a compressed Bucharest. Fictional president George Georgescu has closed Builders House; Ilie Bolojan-Agatinei answers by recovering the Last Server, collecting Recorder evidence and network credentials, hijacking the national broadcast, escaping a five-star police chase in a battered Dacia, and liberating the House from within.
The game is an affectionate homage to Recorder and its YouTube journalism, and to Builders House—Bucharest's builder community, initiated by How to Web and run by Alexandru Agatinei, who leads How to Web.
bun install --frozen-lockfile
bun run dev:webOpen http://localhost:5173, make one focused change, then run bun run check-types, bun test, bun run build, and bun run build:itch. See CONTRIBUTING.md for the short workflow.
This is an independent, non-commercial jam parody. Fictional composite characters do not represent or imply endorsement by the people or organizations referenced.
- Adrian Ciubotaru — co-developer
- pax-k — AI Game Jam organizer


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