Solo Dev Uses Claude for All Code and Weapon Design in Unity Roguelite Steel Maiden
Keicee315 · reddit · 2026-09-29
A solo developer with years of directing experience shared how Claude powered nearly everything in his Unity action roguelite Steel Maiden (free demo on Steam), developed over 8 months: he acts as creative director while Claude executes.
The breakdown:
- Game design: Claude designed all weapons, evolutions (Lightning Rod → Tesla Coil), and relics;
- Code: Claude handles all coding, refactoring, and bugfixing — moved from Sonnet to Fable;
- Custom tools: Claude built an After Effects sprite-sheet packing tool and a balance-tuning tool; Astra added depth-map extraction;
- Art: style set in Photoshop, retouched with Astra; animation clips from Kling 2.5/3.0 and Seedance 2.5, edited in AE;
- Environments: Seedream 5.0 layered parallax backgrounds; Astra + Blender MCP for 3D;
- Audio: Suno for BGM, mouth-recorded sound effects processed in Premiere/Firefly.
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