bonk.exe — an indie chaos game where a Shiba judges your existence 🐕💀

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge

What I Built

I built bonk.exe, a minimal indie-style browser game where you bonk a moving Shiba Inu and get judged for your performance 😭

It looks simple… but the Shiba is always watching.

The goal:

• Click only the Shiba


• Avoid misclicks


• Survive the judgment

At the end, you get:

• Your score (BPM – bonks per minute)


• A brutally honest system message


• Your global rank against other players

It’s chaotic, slightly useless, and very serious at the same time.

Demo

👉 PLAY bonk.exe

Code

💻 GitHub Repo:


👉 https://github.com/shreyaislearning/bonk_inu_arena

How I Built It

I built this as a pure frontend indie-style project using:

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript


• Supabase (for global leaderboard)


• Vercel (for deployment)

Key Features

• 🐕 Moving Shiba target (random position logic)


• 🔊 Sound effects (bonk, miss, background music, game over)


• 🎯 Score tracking + timer system


• 💀 Dynamic “judgment system” based on misses


• 🌍 Global leaderboard using Supabase
  


• 🎮 Indie-style minimal UI

Fun part

The most fun part was designing the “judging system” where the game literally reacts to how badly you play.

Example:

• “shiba is judging you”


• “bonk energy high, aim questionable”


• “shiba has lost respect for you”

Prize Category

🎯 Community Favorite

Because:

• It’s simple but addictive


• It has personality (the Shiba judging you 😭)


• Anyone can play instantly in browser


• And the global leaderboard makes it competitive

Final Thoughts

This project was about turning something completely useless into something fun and memorable.

And honestly…

I think the Shiba still judges me.