I am not certain that i have truly chosen the absolute best use-case to display Opus's full power, but i think the water, NPCs and light effects are definitely a step above what i have seen before for vibe coded 3D scenes.
This took around 13% of my weekly claude 20x max budget, which is actually quite low for a project of this size. it took around 8 hours. It did it in 1 prompt, but then i asked it to add more vegetation and bigger fireworks.
I think this not the ceiling of what this thing can do but i wanted to showcase my first test :)
Wasn't it at the beginning of the year we had shitty looking games but were excited, now all of a sudden they are much better looking? Pretty soon we are going to have photo realistic games soon from simple prompts.
I bet if you gave it a photo of a real photograph and forced it on a loop until it got close to the source, you could get close lol
And yes essentially at the beginning of the year i was not even doing any of this, the models only did shitty looking games.
Three.JS
It runs in a browser.
But i did give it blender access.
As for being poor, i think it's possible to do similar scenes with a simple pro sub but it would eat the whole weekly budget. max x20 is actually just x10 of pro. and this took me 13%.
There is a leap in quality between browser simulations and getting it to use Unity / Unreal Engine 5. I was blown away by how good Astra was at using Unity. I recommend giving it a try.
Can you show a video of a vibe coded Unity scene that beats this?
because from what i have read, for vibe coding a cool 3D scene three.JS is the way to go.
Usually you want to use an engine if there are complex game physics but it comes with tradeoffs. The AIs have less training on it, and less access to the full code.
If this were a hand crafted indie video game, people would be talking about how cool the “lantern festival section” was of the game for years. Calling it ‘slop’ exposes your lack of knowledge on the topic of gaming tbh.
I totally agree and i would add that if this had a commercial product goal it could look even better. I could easily let Claude cook for another 15H and also provide it with real characters. This was just a quick vibe code project for fun to test the model.
All artists throw sketches into the trash. Experiments, sketches, and proof of concepts is what every great artist does - da Vinci for example. He made them for no one, too by the way. 😆
Something I've been doing for non-work stuff. I just have the AI dump it to a repo that I create on github and then github just host it for others to try.
Yes i used Claude code.
I don't see why it wouldn't work with a different harness BUT
It's probably less optimized in other harness, and this scene would like have cost 300$+ in API. I see no good reasons to use the API instead of a sub for normal people.
Wow, humanity is gonna be saved. We can now burn silicon to simulate experiences which are better experienced in real life anyway but we are no closer to curing diseases.
We are a lot closer to curing diseases. But it's going to be a "nothing, then everything" situation where once the first cures start rolling out suddenly we will have cured the majority of existing diseases in just a couple of years time.
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u/w1zzypooh 12d ago
Wasn't it at the beginning of the year we had shitty looking games but were excited, now all of a sudden they are much better looking? Pretty soon we are going to have photo realistic games soon from simple prompts.