Indie Dev Uses Claude for Test-Driven Development of AI Strategy Game
Reasonable-Ad-2070 · reddit · 2026-08-04
A developer with no prior game dev experience shared their workflow of building the strategy mobile game Singularity: AI Tycoon in just 6 weeks using AI.
- Gameplay: Players run an AI lab racing toward superintelligence, with outcomes ranging from utopia to world destruction based on strategy.
- Tech Stack: The core engine is built with pure deterministic TypeScript, ensuring exact replays from a seed.
- AI Development: Claude was used for test-first development, generating around 400 tests to guard the engine. Claude also built a headless bot to simulate thousands of full campaigns in seconds to validate difficulty balancing.
- Assets: Art was generated locally using SDXL, and the soundtrack was AI-generated, all hand-curated.
The game is currently available on Google Play and the App Store, with the full campaign being free and offline.
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