In the not-so-distant future, humanity faces its greatest threat yet: noodles.

As Supreme Leader of the Western Hegemony, it falls to you—and you alone—to impose the perfect tariff. Too low, and the economy collapses under a flood of foreign pasta. Too high, and... well, let’s just say the consequences are al dente.

It may sound simple. It is not as you step into the mind of the man who must decide the noodle fate of the free world. 

Glory to the West.

Glory to the Supreme Leader.

Note: This game uses a lot of effects optimized for WebGL. You'll need a decent GPU to run this game with decent performance.

This is my submission for the Gamedevjs 2025 game jam. Made with Phaser. "Vibe Coded" via assisted programming with Aider and Google Gemini Flash 2.5.

How-to Play:

Objectives

You have 5 minutes to make a balanced decision regarding how much to tax noodles. The TAX SLIDER at the top of the screen tips left or right depending on whatever falls off that side of the screen: noodles and enemies. There are 3 endings, and to achieve "Victory", the TAX indicator must remain somewhere in the middle.

Controls

• Arrow keys to move. 
• Spacebar to consume SUPREME JUICE.
• Press E to skip the intro

Upgrades and Skills

SUPREME JUICE aka energy aka resource is something that builds up over time. You can get the juice faster if you bounce stuff off your head. (The original idea was to balance noodles on the head but I couldn't get the mechanic to work to my liking.)

Skills are upgraded the more you use them. The bar changes color indicating which skill will activate and upgrade.

You also recover some health consuming the juice.

Smack Talk (Green)

Basic auto attack. Consistent. Reliable. Sh*t talk. Upgrades makes it faster and pushes further.

Meatbomb (Yellow)

Drops explosive meatbombs that explodes and damage enemies. Upgrades make it blow up bigger and you drop them more often.

Executive Hole (Blue)

Spawns black holes sucking in enemies and blowing them away. Upgrading make them bigger, appear more often, and...you get the idea.

Ultimate (Purple)

If the SUPREME JUICE is full, you can unleash the ULTIMATE attack killing everything on screen, and recover a lot of health. It also upgrades ALL skills.

Hints

There's no jumping in the game but if you fall off the platform you respawn in the center. You can use this strategically, but don't use it too often or you will die.

Bouncing things on your head increases the JugCombo multiplier which means you get Supreme Juice FASTER.

Disclaimers

All content in this game was generated in some form or another.

Please EXCLUDE MUSIC AND ART from your judging criteria.

My opinion on AI

Tools Used

• VS Code
• Aider with Google Gemini 2.5 Flash
• SDLX, Flex, ControlNet, all sorts of models and loras from Civitai
• Photopea, Paint.net, Aseprite
• SUNO

My dev PC has a 3060 Ti so I didn't realize how awful this game runs on a lower end PC. If enough people request it, I will release a low-end version or implement a settings to disable most of the VFX. As for the game jam, I feel this is the version that should be judged.

I liked the game