These Vibe Coding crypto games are so immersive

Secretion of dopamine, as fast as 0.2 seconds.

This is why vibe coding is so popular in the crypto world today.

For a long time, the market environment has not been good, and I have lost interest in new things, such as the "little things" made by vibe coding. Even the CCTV-acclaimed "Life K Line" has not changed my disappointment in industry innovation.

In my original understanding, what vibe coding is producing now can only be games at the level of the "Emperor Growth Plan" made by the Octopus Studio, which has nothing to do with "serious work." They create excitement, not accumulation; emotions, not value. I prefer to believe the words of those who will still be influencing the world twenty years after their death, and I prefer to devote time to products that may still be great twenty years later, rather than this noise that seems ready to be overwhelmed by the next wave of trends at any time.

Until today, under the popular science guidance of Cryptove's teacher and almost being endorsed by colleagues, I spent several hours playing in succession Rug Pull Simulator (Coin Launch Simulator), the meme escape game Rug Pull Simulator from GMGN Boss Haze Brother team, and Tykoo Brother's FDV guessing game Vesting Victim, these consecutive vibe coding products.

Too awesome.

How to describe this awesome feeling? It's like you've been watching long videos on Site B (Bilibili), and suddenly you're scrolling through TikTok for the first time; or you're used to a slow-burning romance, and suddenly you experience a fast-food love; or it's like being a person suppressed by life for a long time, tasting that high brought by a drug for the first time.

For example, in the Coin Launch Simulator, at the start, you enter from the perspective of the project team, which may not be considered ethical, with a not-so-large initial fund in the account, the product is still in the PPT stage, and you decide what to do next, and how to manipulate your users and community.

A small operational cycle is one month, during which only two tasks can be done, so resources are limited. Putting limited resources and money into product development, or narrative dissemination, or community operations, etc., the game will not tell you which path is the right one. So there will be one uncertain event after another, sometimes smooth fundraising, sometimes regulatory scrutiny, sometimes sudden community unrest, sometimes the emergence of security risks.

Coin Issuance Simulator Game Screenshot

The sense of coolness appears here.

This kind of coolness does not come from finally winning A9, A10, but from continuous, continuous, continuous real-time feedback that just can't be stopped.

For example, Chicken's Rug Pull Simulator is a test field for memecoin trading, GMGN's express game, where the coolness comes from the rhythm of "escaping the top." Buy low-price coins, use up marketing points to pump the price. Scared of being rugged if it rises too fast, itchy if it rises too slowly. Successfully exit at the peak, profits immediately credited to your account, making you feel like you really master the market's rhythm; if failed, you can immediately try again.

0.2 seconds can secrete dopamine, faster than the feedback speed in live trading.

Then there's Vesting Victim, although it doesn't have high-frequency clicks or the intuitive stimulation of a price curve, it plays on your intuitive valuation. By judging the FDV through a project's TVL, number of users, financing situation, inputting numbers, the system tells you the deviation in the next second. This second-level validation makes people unable to stop. You will unconsciously in your mind want to play another round, this time I will definitely guess more accurately, and the nervous system is directly receiving the reward signal.

Left: Rug Pull Simulator, a mini-game about escaping the peak; Right: Vesting Victim game, guessing FDV

This is also the most addictive part of vibe coding. It doesn't need a grand narrative, doesn't require long-term commitment, Copilot, Cursor, AI templates, allow "an idea to turn into a playable demo" time to be extremely compressed. It also doesn't rely on any future promises. No one expects today's vibe coding to produce a great project; as long as today is cool, that's enough.

We only need to make a choice in the present moment, receive immediate feedback, and experience the pleasure of having our actions and results directly mapped to our neurons. This kind of pleasure is more direct and real than any complex economic model, long-term strategy, or whiteboard prediction, and it is also more easily viral on social media.

At the core of vibe coding is the ability to monetize attention instantly at the lowest delivery cost in a market where no one believes in long-term narratives anymore.

In a sense, this is the industrialization of dopamine—a low dose, fast feedback, low addiction, high repurchase form of cruelty to the project party and honesty to the user. It is also a natural product of today's market environment.

So when this era comes, do not resist it, and do not pontificate about deep cognition and morality. Let's all immerse ourselves in these fast-food toys, enjoy the pleasure of immediate feedback, and savor dopamine together.

Even if perhaps it is destined not to be great.