SUMMER SKOOL - Class #4 feat Original Black God

The meeting reviewed progress on several AI-assisted product builds (casual games, a budgeting SaaS, and an almanac/DIY platform), discussed toolchains and monetization, and surfaced deployment constraints and integration trade-offs.

Game development: Red Pillar presented "Pantheon of the Masters" (Temple Run–style) built via Claude with Higgsfield integrations; the prototype runs locally but fails to deploy because the deploy service cannot download the game ZIP from the media CDN. Troubleshooting advice focused on creating and testing a local ZIP, running localhost:3000, and rebuilding via Cloud Co-Work to produce a playable desktop/mobile link. Rob/Mahal demonstrated an itch.io launch playbook for "Bloodlines Noble's Chest," emphasizing a streamable browser build, 720p stream-legibility auditing, HTML wrappers, playwright automation, CDN asset paths, and verification in the live environment. A chess-based world demo showed themed environments and planned custom piece models and camera/music features.

Tooling and workflows: Participants compared Claude (Claude Co-Work/Claude Code), GLM 5/5.2, DeepSeek, Fable, and Hicksfield/Higgsfield for multi-page/server-connected sites, token efficiency, and automation. GLM was noted as lower-cost and agent-capable for detail-rich tasks; Claude handled multi-page and server-connected builds well. Recommendations included packaging generated code as zips, running local builds to retain training context, and using paid tools short-term to ship products.

Monetization and product plans: The team discussed monetization for games (ads, IAPs, paid packs), the value of generating playable domain links before launch, and streamer feedback as distribution strategy. The budgeting SaaS demo by Mys Lekeisha is a three-tier product priced at $19 (basic), $39 (growth), and $75 (business) with a two-month free trial; it includes bank/receipt import, projections for 2026–2027, public state utility-rate pulls (no consumption data), equipment depreciation, role-based approvals, and AI-generated tips via Claude tied to paid subscriptions. Andre, Rob, and others recommended adding frontend repos, paid PDF reporting, and a future-prediction repo to increase conversions.

Additional projects: Akhasa demonstrated an almanac with widgets, DIY kits, skill challenges, and a 3D-printable planosphere tied to the game, noting use of Blender and Fable for imagery and staged 3D workflows. Team feedback included UI/style research and engaging UI/game-code specialists to produce MVP Cloud Code workflows.

Open issues and constraints: The primary unresolved technical issue is the game deployment failure where the deploy service cannot fetch the ZIP from the media CDN. Token and cost trade-offs across Claude, GLM, and other tools remain important for production decisions. Several builds require final code exports (Claude Codex) to match rendered demos and full feature parity.

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SUMMER SKOOL - Class #4 feat Original Black God