The irritation
I wanted an excuse to learn Three.js and landed on a simple challenge: could a player talk a deeply unsettling frog into betraying its own password before the timer ran out?
GameReleasedReleased browser game
Ribbit or Admit It
A two-minute browser game where you interrogate an AI frog and try to make it reveal its secret password.
- Current state
- Released — Released browser game
- Jack’s role
- Game design, 3D web development, AI prompt design, Backend engineering
- Find it in the workshop
- Arcade & Menagerie · Opinionated desk frog
Built because…
The real build story.
What I built
I built a 3D browser interrogation game with a server-generated secret, a two-minute conversation, three difficulty levels, model-backed frog responses, anti-cheat checks, and a completion-time leaderboard.
The hard part
The frog must protect a real server-side secret while still being persuadable enough to make the game fun. Difficulty, prompt behavior, latency, timer state, and leaderboard integrity all affect the same short round.
Under the casing
Proof, not decoration.
Build evidence02 items
- A timed AI conversation with a server-side password and three difficulties
- A public Three.js game, completion leaderboard, and open-source build
- Three.js
- JavaScript
- PHP
- OpenAI API
- JSON leaderboard
Scope of work
What I owned.
- Game design
- 3D web development
- AI prompt design
- Backend engineering
No victory-lap math
Outcome and lesson.
Where it landed
Ribbit or Admit It shipped as a free browser game with a Three.js scene and PHP backend. The source was also published so the build could double as the learning record that inspired it.
What stayed
A strange character can carry a game when the objective is unmistakable: extract the password in under two minutes, then see how your time ranks.
Field notes
This project has a physical address.
In the playable workshop, Ribbit or Admit It lives in the Arcade & Menagerie as a opinionated desk frog. You can inspect it without unlocking anything.