Show HN: My 4 year old made a game

mychickengame.com

4 points by pinchydev 19 hours ago

Bored playing the nth round of Uno, I thought it would be fun to write a game with my 4 year old daughter.

Using Claude Sonnet 3.7 as our "developer" and me acting as the "Product Manager" aka LLM translator, I tried to capture her instructions as verbatim as I could, only adding context to make the prompts work.

The result is a simple browser game which you can play. I added a writeup of all the prompts along the way so you can see how this was put together.

It was only after I realised where she drew her inspiration from.

If you have kids, it's definitely a fun exercise. My wife and I were blown away with how quickly we got something working, my daughter grew tired of it after about a minute.... I fear that this generation will never really appreciate how much effort this used to take.

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parrit 17 hours ago

How to play? Do I need keyboard?

  • pinchydev 17 hours ago

    unfortunately yes :( (needs arrow keys)

    [edit] I added touch controls for you :) I put these in seperate includes.

    • parrit 16 hours ago

      Oh nice! Thanks!

cranberryturkey 19 hours ago

what i love is with my 30+ years of experience this game will probably make more money than I ever did.

  • pinchydev 19 hours ago

    LOL Given the game is free that's a double ouch!