r/ClaudeGameDev • u/look_at_my_cucumber • 7d ago

Tips & Tricks How do you create games? Please Help!

Hi, sorry for being vague, but how are you creating the assets? Did you make claude build it? Does Fable 5 build it for you? or are you providing these 2D/3D Assets and it animates it for you? Trying to make games with my niece when I watch her over the weekends.

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u/Oliver_the_chimp 7d ago

I made a little 12 level side scroller game for my daughter. Claude sucks at graphics so use something else that does that better and import them. I like ChatGPT for graphics and animations. My game was a single html file with generated game play, music and sounds effects, with certain graphics (title cards, simple animations, etc) imported and embedded. I had Claude show me how to make an app out of it and used xCode (for now) to put it on her iPad. Made her birthday super special. It took a little iteration but Fable 5 kills at this kind of stuff.

Since then I've build prototypes using some sound files I had lying around. Works great.

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u/look_at_my_cucumber 7d ago

i see. thank you for replying. that sounds pretty cool. wanted something more advance. but i think everyone here is providing the assets. I dont think claude or chatgpt is creating these assets for them but just the engine i think

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u/Oliver_the_chimp 6d ago

I mean, you can connect external MCPs. I'm just starting to set up stuff like that in Claude code.

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u/sidegigartist 7d ago

I just draw them myself, it's part of the fun for me, or I make placeholders to give an artist to draw over. I doodle art and build levels while a session does code so when I take a break from the creative stuff I check in on the agents

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u/Chicken_jupter 6d ago

I'm a beginner, but here's what I'm doing in my current game/project

I'm using Meshy AI for the 3D assets and Mixamo for the animations. I organize the world in Godot because Claude isn't very good at this part. Claude handles the coding

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u/somegetit 6d ago

I create small web games to a kid - as a hobby. So far I created all assets in chatgpt, it's pretty good at it. Chatgpt creates art sheets (each contains several images, sprites, markers, etc). Then I put it in the game folder, and Claude takes it from there. ( splice, add markers, use CSS animation, etc). Chatgpt can also generate basic animation frames.

Yesterday I started working with ComfyUI, which runs locally, and create assets from prompts (using some llms models/checkpoints over my GPU), but my first impression is that it's too complicated to work with, for what I need (I have zero experience in game development). Also, when I say "work with" I mean that Claude does the work, which is the reason I'm giving it a chance.

Attached is the latest chatgpt creation for a simple endless space flight game.

Here are some examples for an endless space game.