Infinite Craft

About

Infinite Craft is a browser game designed by Neal Agrawal in which the player combines crafting components together to discover new components to craft with. The game is powered by Together AI, allowing for near-limitless and humorous outcomes from crafting. Released in early 2024, Infinite Craft went viral shortly after its debut, prompting discussions and memes on social media referencing the game.

History

On January 31st, 2024, game designer Neal Agarwal released Infinite Craft,^[1] a browser game in which the player crafts an ever-expanding list of components together. On that day, Agarwal made a post about the release on X^[2] / Twitter, where it garnered over 15 million views, 11,000 reposts and 37,000 likes in one week (shown below).

The first version of Infinite Craft, an endless crafting game, is out now!

> https://t.co/tb51ejeqsK pic.twitter.com/QWQMleRHjw

— Neal Agarwal (@nealagarwal) January 31, 2024

Features

Infinite craft allows players to combine various components together to craft new components to be used in future crafting attempts. The game starts with players having access to Fire, Wind, Earth and Water, with the player dragging and dropping two components onto each other to get a new result. Powered by an AI, the game allows for near limitless crafting options, including people, events, characters and unique results (e.g. "Clockwork Kong," "PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale," "Touhou Yuri").

Highlights

The release was followed by players sharing unique crafting results on social media, as well as failed attempts to craft certain something that didn't work as expected. For example, on February 1st, 2024, X^[3] user @h0mmelette posted a video in which they crafted together "Gay Hitler" and "Pedophilia" that received over 2.8 million views, 5,200 reposts and 56,000 likes in four days (shown below).

https://t.co/EO6jWLJhHm pic.twitter.com/zoNrWtj17K

— jules (@h0mmelette) February 1, 2024

More posts sharing images and videos of gameplay went viral on X / Twitter in early February 2024. For example, on February 3rd, 2024, X^[4] user @_penroze posted a screenshot of the first-ever craft of Scott Cawthon, the developer of Five Nights at Freddy's. The post (shown below, left) garnered over 4,500 reposts and 56,000 likes in two days.

Traffic

On February 2nd, 2024, developer Neal Agarwal reported^[5] that players were crafting nearly 1,000 items per second, and attempted to contact Together AI to increase the site's rate limit.^[6]

Related Memes

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