{"rewrite":{"id":"r_a85e2abdbad61c0cfb9ff607","clusterId":"c_3d9ece8bbf4fe73653628066","slug":"mike-klubnika-releases-kuso-ui-championship-game-volume-art-for-free-in-browser","model":"deepseek-v4-1-flash","headline":"Mike Klubnika Releases Kuso UI Championship Game Volume.art For Free In Browser","summary":"Mike Klubnika, known for Buckshot Roulette and Machine Party, released Volume.art on October 1, playable free in a browser. Development began in June, and 29 works from 23 developers arrived by the end of August. Every mini-game uses a slider-style UI resembling volume adjustment, with a bar and a crown mark showing the target. The collection credits the Reddit community r/badUIbattles as an inspiration, and a soundtrack by IODINE is free on Bandcamp.","whyItMatters":"Volume.art turns the pastime of building deliberately terrible UI into a playable collection, and its r/badUIbattles credit ties a browser toy to a community that has been trading bad sliders for years.","webCardHtml":"\u003cp\u003eThe pitch is one control repeated 29 times: a slider, a volume bar, a crown marking the target. What sits behind the slider is the joke. In \u0026#34;A man named Bow,\u0026#34; players draw an arrow to launch it and the distance flown sets the volume, so the task becomes archery until the bar nears the crown. In \u0026#34;CTRL+ALT+DATE,\u0026#34; correct answers in a robot-girl romance scene raise the volume and wrong ones lower it. \u0026#34;capital gains\u0026#34; has players buying and selling four stocks with left and right clicks while the volume tracks the money held, and the fallen prices stay fallen long enough that the volume objective fades into trading.\u003c/p\u003e","blueskyPost":"Mike Klubnika released Volume.art on October 1, free in a browser: 29 mini-games from 23 developers, each a volume slider that is secretly archery, stock trading, or a monster shell game. IODINE's soundtrack is free on Bandcamp.","twitterPost":"Volume.art is out now, free in a browser. Mike Klubnika's project gathered 29 mini-games from 23 developers, all disguised volume sliders. IODINE's soundtrack is on Bandcamp for free.","threadsPost":null,"newsletterBlurb":"Volume.art, hosted by Buckshot Roulette developer Mike Klubnika, is free in a browser as of October 1. The collection holds 29 miniature games by 23 developers, each one a weird metric dressed up as a volume slider. IODINE's soundtrack is also free on Bandcamp.","attributionJson":"[{\"source\":\"Automaton\",\"url\":\"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261019-474291/\",\"title\":\"\\\"Kuso UI Championship\\\" Game Volume.art Released for Free: The Worst UI That 23 Game Developers Somehow Made Seriously, Full of Frustration to Play\"}]","lintFlagsJson":null,"lintHits":0,"costUsd":0,"inputTokens":4658,"outputTokens":616,"status":"published","repairAttempts":0,"nextRepairAt":null,"factsAttemptedAt":1792403536,"createdAt":"2026-10-19T09:47:40.000Z","publishedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:08.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:08.000Z"},"cluster":{"id":"c_3d9ece8bbf4fe73653628066","canonicalTitle":"「クソUI選手権」的ゲーム『Volume.art』無料公開。23人のゲーム開発者がなぜか本気で作った最悪のUI、遊んでイライラし放題","representativeArticleId":"a_4a631e3378bc8350ea0076dc","sourceCount":1,"writtenSourceCount":1,"writeAttempts":0,"isSolo":true,"entitiesJson":"{\"anime_titles\":[],\"manga_titles\":[],\"work_titles\":[\"Volume.art\"],\"studios\":[],\"people\":[\"Mike Klubnika\"],\"type\":\"release\",\"domain\":\"games\",\"is_roundup\":false}","contentType":"news","status":"published","firstSeenAt":"2026-10-19T08:41:04.000Z","lastSeenAt":"2026-10-19T08:41:04.000Z","updatedAt":"2026-10-19T09:51:07.000Z"},"attribution":[{"source":"Automaton","url":"https://automaton-media.com/articles/newsjp/20261019-474291/","title":"「クソUI選手権」的ゲーム『Volume.art』無料公開。23人のゲーム開発者がなぜか本気で作った最悪のUI、遊んでイライラし放題"}],"entities":{"anime_titles":[],"manga_titles":[],"work_titles":["Volume.art"],"studios":[],"people":["Mike Klubnika"],"type":"release","domain":"games","is_roundup":false},"keyFacts":null}