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"Infinite Craft": The endless word building game

Kim Muntinga
20/2/2024
Translation: machine translated

"Infinite Craft" is a simple yet captivating browser game. As a player, you start with the four elements of earth, wind, fire and water. Your goal is to freely combine new terms.

Water and earth make a plant. "Infinite Craft" is a word formation game in which you have to combine two words to form a new word. You can then combine these words further to create even more words. You can play the sandbox game for free in your browser. You can find the link here. Incidentally, the game is completely in English.

"Infinite Craft" as a trend game: Where did it come from?

The game was developed by Neal Agarwal aka Neal.fun, who previously created the excellent "The Password Game", among others. The game uses generative AI software. The language model LLaMA invents the elements, while Together AI hosts the servers. According to Agrwal on X, more than 200,000 unique combinations were tried out in the first 24 hours after release.

In the last few weeks, the game has become a bit of a hit. On 13 January, Agarwal tweeted a picture: 30,000 users had played his sandbox game in the last half hour. He wrote that he had spent the last week just keeping the servers running because the rush was so great. In addition, more than 50,000 people have followed the first "Infinite Craft" competition.

How the game works

You start the game with the four elements: Water, Fire, Wind and Earth. You gradually combine these terms with each other. This unlocks new elements. These are saved in your deck at the same time. You can now continue to use the new terms to obtain even more elements.

The start screen is very simple. On the right you have your deck with your existing terms. On the left is your playing field.
The start screen is very simple. On the right you have your deck with your existing terms. On the left is your playing field.
Source: Kim Muntinga / Screenshot
  • Water and fire become vapour
  • Fire and earth become lava
  • Vapour and lava become a volcano
  • Volcano and wind become a volcanic eruption

You can let your creativity run wild. For example, you can create stars like Katy Perry or Kim Kardashian, mythical creatures like Dracula

In one of my game runs, I unlocked my first name, among other things: Kim.
In one of my game runs, I unlocked my first name, among other things: Kim.
Source: Kim Muntinga / Screenshot
Also, I was the first person ever to unlock the Neopolygrilling element.
Also, I was the first person ever to unlock the Neopolygrilling element.
Source: Kim Muntinga / Screenshot

Do you like the game? What interesting terms have you unlocked? Let me know in the comments

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