You climb into the roof space of an old shopping mall and build a hidden home there, deck by deck, while your crew takes jobs and stays out of sight of the people below. Speed buttons let a night pass quickly. The mall below is full of real store names, which are visible in the still preview.
How the creator made it
The creator tried making the game after watching Secret Mall Apartment, then came back to it with Claude Opus 5.5 after an earlier attempt stalled. They say the game was playable after the first prompt and that Claude wrote nearly all the code, including the simulation, crew behavior, renderer and a bot for testing balance. The creator handled design, playtesting and feedback, and the project notes say PixelLab sprites were picked by hand and mapped to a fixed palette. Claude also staged shots in the running game and synthesized music for the trailer.
From their post on Reddit ↗ and a page on GitHub ↗.
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