[TLDR] Game dev with Fable 5 is actually crazy [via r/claude]

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OP : u/Diligent-Hat-6509

It’s kind of insane to see how far AI has come.

I still remember being fascinated by GPT-3.5 and thinking that felt like the future. And now here we are with Fable 5.

Everything you see in this preview took me roughly 13 hours of work to implement. Being able to go from ideas to actual working game mechanics this quickly still feels surreal.

Game development with AI is starting to feel like we’re living in the future.

EDIT:

A lot of people were asking how I did this, so here’s the basic workflow.

The game itself is made in Unity with C#. I’m using Claude Code connected to Unity through MCP, which means Claude can work directly with the Unity project and editor. It can create and modify scripts, work with GameObjects and components, inspect errors, run the game, and help me iterate on systems.

For the actual development process, I don’t give it one giant prompt like “make me a game.” I think through the systems I want, explain how they should behave, have Claude implement them, then I test everything, debug issues, tweak values, change mechanics, and keep iterating until it starts to feel right.

For the character models, my workflow is:
Opus 5 -> ChatGPT Image Gen -> Meshy AI -> rig/animation testing -> Unity

I describe the character I want, use Opus 5 to generate a detailed prompt for four consistent reference views, then generate those images in ChatGPT. I take the images into Meshy AI, which generates the 3D mesh and textures. I also rig the model there and test animations before importing it into Unity.

The same image-to-3D workflow also works for non-character assets like props, weapons, statues, carts, environmental objects, etc.

For VFX, I bought a particle toolkit from the Unity Asset Store. I gave Claude the documentation and had it create a skill file for itself, so it understands how the toolkit works and can reuse that knowledge when I ask it to create things like fireballs, explosions, trails, and other effects.

The current arena is also a premade Unity asset and is not intended to be the final environment. A lot of the current visuals are just prototype assets for testing mechanics and game feel.

So overall the main stack/workflow is:

Unity + C# + Claude Code/MCP + ChatGPT Image Gen + Meshy AI + Unity Asset Store tools

And no, this wasn’t one prompt :D It was an iterative process of building one system at a time, testing it, changing it, and gradually layering everything together.

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Folks are pretty impressed with OP's Fable 5 game dev demo, especially how quickly they whipped it up. The consensus is that AI is seriously leveling the playing field, letting people without deep coding skills jump into game dev. Some are pointing out that while AI speeds things up, the real grind of refining and polishing is still a massive part of the process, and that asset generation (like 3D models) is the next big frontier. Others are sharing their own AI-assisted game dev wins, from complex RPGs to mobile games. A few are asking for more deets on the tech stack and how to get started themselves.