Indie dev builds Kinhold colony sim with Claude; ranching system nears completion
SweetKarmaz · reddit · 2026-09-04
Indie developer SweetKarmaz shared a progress video for Kinhold, a colony sim built entirely with Claude — it took 35 takes over two days to capture the demo.
Key updates:
- Ranching: animals can be captured and bred in pens; larger pens hold more animals, and single-species pens grant a bonus
- Farming/ranching are 90% complete; villager jobs (harvesting, mining, crafting, etc.) are nearly done
- Combat is next, followed by enemy settlements and raids
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