WHAT IS THIS?
One day I decided to see if Claude could do one-shot prompts of something resembling a game and make it playable, all on its own, with no follow-up responses. The answer is yes, it can. Tell it you want a browser based game inspired by the retro game of choice you'd like to ruin and away it goes.
I, of course, ran with this and now this page exists.
Are they good games? No. But they are what you could reasonably call games. And they're playable. And they were each made with a single prompt no more than three or four sentences. Maybe I'll go back and forth with it one day and see what happens.
Honestly, the impressive part to me is that there's no images or sound files on this site. None. Everything you see and hear is generated at runtime via code. An entire “game” here is like 125 KB and consists of one HTML file and a few JavaScript files. It's incredibly lean.
FAQ
- Q: Why?
- A: Why not? I've been a shitposter most of my life and I have no intention of changing that. Also because it's kinda sketch sending zip files full of html and javascript files to buddies on Discord and saying “just unzip it and run the html file. Totally safe, I swear.”
- Q: How much of this site was made by a human?
- A: The words on this page and the blurbs for the game cards. Everything else was made by the clanker.