Solo dev ships 3D tower defense game built with Claude and GPT images, now on Steam
MosskeepForest · reddit · 2026-10-31
A solo developer's AI-assisted 3D tower defense/adventure game Wanderlight is live on Steam, a follow-up to Magehold Fairwinds and their first AI-built 3D game with an RTS-style view. Key workflow takeaways: Claude modeling characters in Blender helped only modestly, while redoing environment textures with GPT images was the real quality leap; requesting GIF previews made bulk-reviewing animations feasible; Claude proved surprisingly strong at RTS-style animations (platform deploys, collapsing bridges). The core loop: test, list what's off, feed bug reports back for another pass. 3D dev went slower than the previous 2D game.
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