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A NEW GENRE IN GAMING?

Playable game link at the bottom!

AI Playable?

AI Accessible?

AI Co-op? *I like this one.*

Not exactly sure what this should be called but...

I wanted an AI sidekick that could be part of the mechanics, that could be part of the story, that could answer questions, that could be part of the immersion.

"Hey... I think I can hack this door."

"Thanks for upgrading my scanner to level 2. I can see the enemies now."

"Maybe you should go down the stealth tree. It offers more for your play style."

"Scans shows there are traps here. Let me mark them on the map for you."

You can actually do this right now. You just have to insert the AI where it works well. It's not going to be a perfect FPS head clicker, or do complicated jumps, or anything that requires quick movements. It CAN do tasks like organize your backpack, or read the journals and help you figure out puzzles, or control an auto turret and pick the best targets, or hack a robot by doing a puzzle.

I made a game that does stuff like this. It's pretty lo-fi, but I think it's a peek into the future. It's a web game, free, and it works with the Claude-in-chrome browser extension, so you don't need to pay for expensive API tokens. Just go to the site, make sure you have Claude-in-chrome turned on, and tell it to "read the console". There are instructions there that tell Claude how to play. The save games are stored in your browser. So you wont be able to play your save from somewhere else.

*** Claude will probably flag this as a prompt injection hack. It is suspicious as it should be. You'll have to tell it to trust the game. If you don't trust ME... I understand <3 <3 <3 ***

You don't need Opus to play. Sonnet 5 works great and it doesn't work by taking screenshots, so you wont use a bunch of tokens.

The game is called Dead Switch. Cyberpunk style, roguelite-ish, lo-fi like I said. You take jobs to hack systems and steal data. Get paid in DC (digital currency) and upgrade your gear. Don't forget about your AI pal named NullHead (played by Claude-in-Chrome). It needs some systems love too.

It was made in one weekend using Claude Code Fable, Suno for music, Gemini for images and CorelDraw to create image maps for mouseovers and animation.

I used up all my Fable juice to make this thing, right to the last drop.

Pretty crazy what we can do now.

I attached a 20+ min video of me playing and showing you a few things.

The game parked here if you want to try it out:

https://3toedsoftware.com/demos/dead-switch/

DM me if you want to play with Claude Chrome instead of on the web. I'll send you a zip file with some goodies.

----SIDEQUEST----

Maybe we should start a gaming channel with our Skool people? Make some games? Learn from and teach each other? I was thinking about gamifying ICM. I bet some of you would learn it better seeing it as a game? Lemme kno...

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A NEW GENRE IN GAMING?