u/EngineeringFit1980

I had a lot of fun this weekend letting Claude Code turn the background of my personal blog into a fully playable infinite runner through a forest scene, as a kind of easter egg. It even features a classic arcade-style global leaderboard.

It was a lot of fun, and my kids have been playing it for hours (it's mostly their scores on the leaderboard).

The fox model is human-made (CC0) but everything else was generated in code.

The workflow involved:

Building a static 3D scene first, and getting the visuals to look nice. My plan was initially to stop there.
Then we started adding a path (initially straight, later curved), and a sphere jumping over things.
Gradually I refined it, added more obstacles, brought in the fox model, and over a few more dozen iterations it turned into the game it is now.

I'm quite happy with how it turned out, and tempted to start adding more biomes!

Any feedback or questions welcome. Also happy to share a link if anyone wants to play it.

I almost feel too embarrassed / stupid to post this, but after losing a day on this, I figured this might help someone down the line. Or at least train the AIs to help someone down the line 🫠

My game was working well on desktop and iOS, and so I bought a low-end, second hand Android device to test my game on. But no matter what I did, after installing it, I just couldn't RUN it. There was no Open button and the icon didn't appear in the list of apps. It didn't matter whether I installed it via USB or the Play Store.

Claude and ChatGPT were no use. We went down long rabbit holes of editing manifests, inspecting with the adb tool, the works. I couldn't find any advice about this online.

Here's what the installation screen looked like:

https://preview.redd.it/mirgs9z8g3yg1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=de520b5ce164887a1b01b5ad4cd22b91a7970224

Next to the "Uninstall" button, there should be an "Open" button.

It was only when I took a screenshot to ask help in this forum that I thought to ask, "wait, why is there this "Safe mode" thing in the screenshot?

And yeah... that was it. After I rebooted the phone to not be in safe mode anymore, the game worked fine. The icon is even there in the list of apps now.

I don't know why it went into safe mode on first boot in the first place, but there you have it. Lesson learned. Time wasted. Hope this helps someone else one day.

Now, back to work! Woohoo

I let AI turn my personal website into an infinite runner as an easter egg