git-invader Space Invaders animation running on a real GitHub contribution graph

0x02 | git-invader: Your GitHub Contribution Graph Is Now a Battlefield

The Idea Every developer has that one GitHub profile widget they wish existed. For me it was something that felt alive — not a static badge, not a bar chart, not even the classic snake. Something that actually used your contribution data as game state. git-invader is exactly that. It reads your last 52 weeks of contributions via the GitHub GraphQL API, maps every active day to a Space Invaders alien, and generates a looping SVG animation where a ship hunts them all down — column by column, lowest row first — in a battle that is completely unique to your commit history. ...

May 3, 2026 · 11 min · 2196 words · PATEL96