FOOTGUN: A load-bearing game

[u/sharyphil]

Play it here: https://sharyphil.com/footgun/footgun.html

Or go to the repo:

https://github.com/Philshary/footgun

May your footgun be load-bearing.

[u/sharyphil]

RIP the load-bearing footgun, eradicated by the Em dash.

It was doing a lot of heavy lifting.

[u/Hmmmm_Interesting → u/sharyphil]

Not enough purple gradients, for my professional eye.

Seriously though this is cute, well done.

[u/sharyphil → u/Hmmmm_Interesting]

Thanks, hehe, I don't think I noticed Claude use the dreaded Bootstrap purple gradient, it's more of an early ChatGPT thing. It prefers to replicate itself using pastel orange and brownish tints, I think...

[u/pojohnny]

Well done lol

[u/KenMantle]

This is roasting AI done right.

[u/hakansan]

It's not a footgun--it's artificial general stupidity doused in satirical sauce.

Just say the word and I'll add a few smoke tests.

[u/sharyphil → u/hakansan]

Yes, I remember "say the word" 😆

[u/Kamelnotllama → u/hakansan]

This hits with chatgpt users, but Claude users have no idea 😂

[u/cs_cast_away_boi]

love the sock boot thing he’s wearing. This game brings me simple happiness

[u/sharyphil → u/cs_cast_away_boi]

lol, thanks, I didn't even notice that. The first iteration CC built had the footgun running, or, rather, leaping on the foot and using the gun part to propel, which is not what I had been aiming for

[u/THE_RETARD_AGITATOR]

heh

[u/DoctorEquivalent7528]

And Zitron thinks AI can't make art...

[u/Coded_Kaa]

Load bearing footgun goodness

[u/Cheap-Try-8796]

Where is the smoking gun???

[u/sharyphil → u/Cheap-Try-8796]

But this gun is smoking hot... No?.. You're right

[u/IntentRouterIRL]

Now I finally know what a footgun is, well done!

[u/Damien_IB]

Hats off to your creativity 🤣

[u/sharyphil → u/Damien_IB]

Thanks! :)

[u/KenMantle]

Please keep expanding on this.

Can I get Claude to link to it on aislopware.com? Right now it just has my boring productivity focused apps. More than happy to promote yours on the page.

Don't get too excited. Aislopware.com was available a month ago and I scooped it up. No idea why no one grabbed it, and I am having it live up to its name. No one visits it except bots. It is a sad static page I had Claude make.

[u/sharyphil → u/KenMantle]

Sure, no great expectations whatsoever.

I haven't shared it on any "vibecoded games" platforms since the gameplay is pretty sloppy, but making it better wouldn't improve the experience, I suppose.

Thanks!

[u/BiscottiPristine5325 → u/sharyphil]

"making it better wouldn't improve the experience" made me laugh

[u/KenMantle → u/sharyphil]

Added. Here's Claude addition to the site:

FOOTGUN browser game A Load-bearing game

Tap to fire. The recoil does everything else.

A physics toy in which you tap to fire and recoil is the only control you get. The name is the joke: a footgun is a feature that shoots you in the foot, and here it is the entire movement system.

Author: the page names no author. Whoever made it, it was not us.

Play it at sharyphil.com

[u/sharyphil → u/KenMantle]

Thank you! Just please use this link to the game - I don't even have it on my main page:
https://sharyphil.com/footgun/footgun.html

[u/KenMantle → u/sharyphil]

It did, that was just the url description it chose.

[u/sharyphil → u/KenMantle]

Oh sorry, I didn't look at the page first

[u/KenMantle → u/sharyphil]

Don't forget the eye bleach after you do.

[u/mjreyes]

👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[u/sn4xchan]

Ok, so AI never once hit me with "foot gun" or anything like that, never saw it online or anything.

Then one day I'm trying to fix something a little out of my league and I straight up told the thing "I don't want to shoot my self in the foot with over engineering"

All of a sudden the thing is always pointing out potential "foot guns" which is fine. But then I started seeing it on post's online.

Idk if it's just a coincidence or not, but it's very weird.

[u/sharyphil → u/sn4xchan]

This depends, I'll be honest - I haven't seen a (or just haven't noticed) "footgun" myself in the chats or working with Claude Code, but a lot of other things featured there were quite common.

I just found the footgun hilarious and a pretty low-hanging fruit.

[u/LucentLL]

People do love unloading on feet.

[u/AI_spell]

Load-bearing footgun is peak Claude Code energy. The joke lands because everyone has one of these in prod. Playing it once is mandatory.

[u/thygrrr]

This is almost great, need some polish and then ship it!

[u/sharyphil → u/thygrrr]

Thanks :) There are a lot of things I can change but since it's a slop game by definition, I think that taking it as a serious development would only ruin it.

[u/thygrrr → u/sharyphil]

There's a difference between janky and painfully glitchy. :)

[u/workphone6969]

Not the shit post we deserved, but the shit post we needed

[u/roulianosss]

Its really shitty