Unicorn Academy by @OnyxMonolith

Cozy, Exploration · Claude Sonnet 5.5

Unicorn Academy

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Works on phones and computers

You lead a unicorn through eight places, starting in a flower forest full of rabbits and butterflies, find five friends who then follow you as a herd, and cast six kinds of magic on things around you. A parent can switch on a learning mode that asks you to spell words letter by letter. It's made for phones and tablets, plays offline once added to the home screen, and keeps its saves on the device. Its title and some names come from an existing children's series.

How the creator made it

The creator says they built the game with their daughter in under a month, with her designing most of the maps and playground games. She played each new build and the creator passed her feedback to Claude Sonnet 5.5, which wrote the code and generated the sprites and sounds in code. They had Claude test Phaser with small prototypes and check that a unicorn and a forest clearing matched before making the rest of the art. The creator kept the work to one conversation at a time and had Claude record decisions and write handoff notes for new sessions. When spell effects ran poorly on a Kindle Fire, Claude added a mode that draws fewer pixels and particles.

From their post on Reddit ↗.

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