Solo dev builds game with zero asset files: Claude draws 100 cards, 22 ships, composes live music in code
jaboos91 · reddit · 2026-10-21
A solo developer built Star Hop, a browser space game with zero image or sound files — everything is code Claude wrote. Opus built a small SVG kit and composed 100 collectible pilot cards from three parallax layers (152 kB total for all 100), drew 22 ships with canvas paths plus 19 recolors, and synthesized two generative music scores live in the browser: combos layer in instruments, hyperdrive brings the full arrangement, crashes mute the band for two bars, and tempo climbs per sector. Prompt-to-production for the music took half an hour. Lessons learned: SVG filters re-rendered on phone tilt (moved to pre-painted canvas layers) and the starfield needed WebGL on Firefox for Android. Whole game is 0.5 MB gzipped.
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