Hyperspell · est. incidents 2026

HYPERSPELL ARCADE

Small games about big infrastructure. Real incidents, deliberately outrageous numbers, playable in minutes.

Frantic console panic, crew of one · ~4 min

Six-Second Shift

You are the on-call engineer. Orders arrive under a countdown, every instrument is a real production knob, and the waves replay a real five-month incident — the one where five reasonable decisions starved an LLM summarizer. When the ordered knob is hardcoded, slam the big red bar. Survive to the end and run the real fix (fallbacks −98%).

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Bureaucracy simulator · ~6 min

Ingestion Inspector

Checkpoint bureaucracy at the Ministry of Ingestion. You are the LLM content classifier: stamp documents against the filters, survive the fail-open jump scare, run the two-key dry-run → apply sequence on the stored corpus, and face the coworker whose charity fun run you soft-deleted. Citations quote the real spec.

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