# xikhar/spiderbench

> A browser-based 3D web-swinging game built by Claude under human direction as a non-commercial fan project and benchmark of AI game-development capabilities.

- Magnitude: 6.3 out of 10 — Early signal
- Stars: 103 total · +98 stars today, ≈ 135 by evening
- Star trust: star growth looks organic
- Category: Games & graphics · Language: JavaScript · Created: 2026-09-27 · Last push: 2026-09-27
- GitHub: https://github.com/xikhar/spiderbench · Page: https://gitnova.dev/en/r/xikhar/spiderbench

## Useful for

- Run locally via npm run dev to assess the quality of AI-generated code and assets
- Study the procedural city generation and Three.js shaders as examples for your own project
- Compare Claude Code's capabilities with other AI tools on a game-development task

## Why it’s here

- 98 stars so far today, about 135 expected by the end of the day.
- The repository is 0 days old and already has 103 stars. With less than two weeks of history, there's no usual pace to compare the spike against yet.
- Top new repositories this week: #132.
- About 105 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @jaggedsoft (467 followers).

## Star trust

Star growth looks organic.

Star-trust labels are heuristics based on the repository’s behavior, not a check of every stargazer.

## Numbers

- Forks: 28
- Issues and pull requests: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Average over the last week: 135 per day
- Usual pace: too little history (under two weeks)
- Stars in the last hour (measured): 19

## Stars per day, last 8 days (oldest → newest, today is partial)

2026-09-20 … 2026-09-27: 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 8, 98

## Spotted in now

- Top new repositories this week: #132

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Magnitude (0–10) measures how fast and how unusually interest in a repository is growing right now. It is not a quality score.
Days are UTC. “So far today” is a fact; “expected by the end of the day” is a forecast.
Summaries and use cases are written by an LLM (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) from the README and may be inaccurate: verify specific claims (benchmarks, speed, hardware) in the repository itself.
Data as of 2026-09-27 14:58 UTC, updated every 30 minutes.