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Saltline: First-person shooter built by Fable 5.2

37 points dr00tb 1 hour ago 37 comments

al_borland 1 hour ago | parent

Fighting a bunch of drones in super annoying. I had to move to the desktop to try it as the D-pad doesn't work on iOS.

TheJohnSmith1 48 minutes ago | parent

Wow, this is a terrible game lol.

delichon 35 minutes ago | parent

Among games written for $550 in 8 hours including the art it's pretty good.

jansan 7 minutes ago | parent

No, it isn't. With $550 you could buy ten really good games made by someone who knows how to make games, or spend it on something else you enjoy or invest it. If he wasn't a manager at Anthropic this would be $550 of money wasted. Nobody will enjoy the game. Nobody will buy it. Nobody learned anything from it.

winfredJa 35 minutes ago | parent

for a one shot prompt and web based, it is not terrible i think. I mean no one is going to pay for this game

coffeebeqn 27 minutes ago | parent

Does it forego using a game engine?

bot403 29 minutes ago | parent

It's not a game - its a tech demo.

sorrywhat 23 minutes ago | parent

We've already seen that it can make web games that run poorly and nobody wants to play, it isn't demoing anyrhing new.

I'd be interested to see the first one that makes >0$ on SteamSalesBench.

jonesy827 39 minutes ago | parent

Doesn't work on Firefox for me.

myworkaccount2 32 minutes ago | parent

worked on Firefox on windows, takes a while to load though.

colordrops 22 minutes ago | parent

Works on firefox Android for me

ch4s3 37 minutes ago | parent

The D button doesn't work so I could only strafe left. Good times.

0x20cowboy 20 minutes ago | parent

Disable the vimimum browser plugin

ch4s3 15 minutes ago | parent

I enjoyed the challenge.

datadrivenangel 36 minutes ago | parent

Gameplay is mid, but the graphics are pretty.

How much in credits did this cost?

simonw 27 minutes ago | parent

https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2119925633564463609

> Everything in this game is from scratch: models, sounds, textures. ~$550 at API pricing, ~2.7M output and 445M input tokens, heavily cached. Took 8 hours!

Kim_Bruning 34 minutes ago | parent

How did they get those graphics O_O

simonw 28 minutes ago | parent

Apparently the prompt was:

"You know, you should also build me a FPS. Insanely detailed quality pls, something that looks visually like it can keep up with AAA. Make it small in scope (like a tiny level) but otherwise impressive photorealistic graphics"

According to https://x.com/felixrieseberg/status/2119927483994907024

dominotw 12 minutes ago | parent

lies

edit to downvoters : Link in the post is not one shot anyways. It even says that on the page.

eterm 5 minutes ago | parent

If you launch the game, it has a "See the one-shotted version" button.

ActionHank 5 minutes ago | parent

Further to this, you can do this even faster than Claude, you can just download Unreal, they have ready to go demo games.

This is not as amazing as people seem to think.

No game ever was as simple an idea as "Make an FPS". The devil is in the details and that is where LLMs break down.

thisisauserid 26 minutes ago | parent

Cool! Derivative.

Nothing wrong with derivative but of course it's going to excel in well trodden areas.

skinfaxi 21 minutes ago | parent

So surely Anthropic could prove this is one-shot by just sharing the whole session right?

blini-kot 17 minutes ago | parent

of course! not like the IPO depends on it, right?

ActionHank 3 minutes ago | parent

Read both to these comments picturing Dario cringing and sweating.

I_am_tiberius 18 minutes ago | parent

I still can't believe it's allowed to steal the world's content and sell it in a derived way like this, without going to prison.

fwlr 11 minutes ago | parent

One perspective on the big AI corps is that they’re a grand experiment in capitalism: given a letter of marque to maximally exploit the combined intellectual capital of the world to date, what’s the most you can make? It is very unfortunate (although arguably also very predictable) that the answer is “mostly a bunch of hacks and ripoffs”.

dominotw 9 minutes ago | parent

Are these models trained on the games. How are they generating such good graphics.

onlyrealcuzzo 7 minutes ago | parent

Which game did this steal content from exactly? Basically everything is derivative...

I'm not familiar enough with gaming to know where this crossed the line.

Rainbow Six? Call of Duty? Battlefield? Counterstrike?

maxdo 18 minutes ago | parent

wooow. this would be easily several months of work 2 years ago.

you could easily put some idea behind, put donald t there, or something trendy now, and get at least some attention/fun, and maybe some money on ads . the capability is there.

thurn 15 minutes ago | parent

Maybe with another year of research we can train an AI model to design UI without adding 500 words of explanatory prose to every screen.

Oarch 4 minutes ago | parent

I might just suck at gaming but this was miserable to play on mobile.