We Become What We Behold

Working

a game about news cycles, vicious cycles, infinite cycles

Runs in the browser1 checkGames and play

Open We Become What We BeholdChecked 2 days ago

What stands out

Taken from the page and the access facts we recorded. Nothing here is guessed.

play a news-cycle parable
remix the public-domain source
No account required
Free

What we checked

A missing tick means we have not measured it. A red mark is a check that failed.

App accessible
The last check reached a working page.
Page rendered
Hosted on a platform that wraps the app in an iframe — we cannot read inside it.
Screenshot kept
We captured a picture of the page.

Looked: 0
Opened: 1
Checks: 1
Watching: 0

Looked and opened count distinct browsers on this site, not verified people. Checks are requests we made. None of these come from the app itself.

Screenshot of We Become What We Behold — Screenshot from our last capture

Evidence

Each bar is one request we made

Checks: 1
Working: 100%
Median response: 550ms
Watching since: 2 days ago

Browser render check

Checked 1 day ago in a real browser

0 of 1 page rendered

Pages loaded in a real browser, not just an HTTP request. Route discovery is best-effort — nav links not in the initial DOM are not followed. How we check

Activity

Watching since 2 days ago

Last content change: None seen yet
Unchanged for: 2 days
Certificate expires: in 61 days

We hash the visible text on every check, so a redesign registers and a rotating advert does not. An app that has not changed in a long time is not necessarily abandoned — but it is a fact worth knowing before you depend on it.

What it does

We Become What We Behold is a short game by Nicky Case about news cycles and feedback loops. Code and art are released to the public domain, with source on GitHub. Fan translations and screenshot assets are linked from the page.

What people say

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