Claude Iteratively Builds AAA-Style Swapshot FPS In Unity WebGL

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Hey, Fable: "No like "AAA" in what everyone online thinks AAA is, you know what I mean."

This was pretty funny, there are lootboxes, EULAs, achievements, useless graphical settings, elaborate boot screens, etc. All Fable's ideas, so don't blame me

Play: https://swapshot-ultimate.netlify.app/

Ethan Mollick@emollick

I kept asking Claude Fable to make the game "more AAA" over and over again. The results are... interesting.

In Claude's view, this meant upgrading graphics, boss fights, mechanics adding custom sounds and soundtracks until it reached the limits of WebGL. https://swapshot-arena.netlify.app/

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Cario Lee@QCL15

@emollick I've started doing this with code agents. just repeating "make it production ready" gets you error handling, retries, and logging that a detailed first prompt somehow misses. the model knows what good looks like, it's just waiting for you to ask twice.

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Harley Lewis Foote@harleyfoote_

@emollick Say "more AAA" enough times and Claude quietly promotes itself to creative director.

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Edward Frank Morris 🦇@ThatsEFM

@emollick Now I want to see if Fable 5 can make combinations of Chess...

Chess + Snake Chess + GTA Chess + Tekken

Etc

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Bradley@bradley_9000

@emollick been making a game with fable since the original release. my contribution to the process is primarily giving permission to delete/subtract.

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TruthtideTV@TruthtideTV

@emollick The level of vibe coding expertise is truly craptacular.

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Jonathan Ellis@spyced

@emollick So it basically gave you Quake 3 Arena?

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Nolan McDonough@nolanmcdonough_

@emollick Bro absolutely trashed you

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𝕱𝖚𝖑𝖑 𝕶𝖊𝖑𝖑𝖞@full_kelly_

@emollick This is what they put on the TV in smiling friends

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Ilya Venger@ivenger

@emollick Cheap production value signaling.

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T@mprey

@emollick AI taste levels still insufficient. They’ll just add more glow and other nonsense and it all converges on the same aesthetic if you don’t actively steer it away from that

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Braydon Dymm, MD@BraydonDymm

@emollick Omg the soundtrack

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𝕘𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕥@for_the_chill

@emollick can ya ask fable for keybinds so i can scroll wheel jump

custom reticle options faux wiki for movement tech lovers? (swapshot rollouts? or the swapshot movement wiki)

oh, since it’s fps why not a $20 skin shop that is pure lootbox hell?

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MUTHRI ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY@MuthriGames

@emollick I'm not sure what your experiments misusing Ai models are supposed to prove.

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SULTAN@a5sd4

@emollick Vague adjectives are a free window into a model's priors.

More AAA means whatever the training data thinks premium looks like, the same way make it professional always lands on corporate blue.

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超级幸运星~@luckybibiw1p

@emollick 有意思的是，人类对AI的指令方式本身就暴露了我们对事物的理解方式。让Claude做AAA游戏，它会去堆抽奖箱、EULA、闪屏警告——因为人类训练数据里“AAA”这个词本身就带着这些标签。这种偏见不是AI的问题，是我们自己的。

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MaatWork@MaatWorkX

@emollick You asked for more. It hit the platform's limit before hitting a constraint you defined. The core lesson for building agents: prompts give direction, you must give the ceiling.

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Mikle Lalak@miklelalak

@emollick The gun being 100% backwards is fucking hilarious.

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fast pants@MarqMarkMarc

@emollick Eh, Better than newgrounds

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晚晚@An_yhl

@emollick 感觉它对 AAA 的理解还挺“堆料”的

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