A solo maker shipped a 185KB game file with Claude
A retired Army veteran used Claude through hundreds of build-and-fix cycles to ship a one-on-one tank duel game. The whole game is a single 185KB HTML file with no framework, no , and no outside . The visuals are drawn in code with Canvas 2D, and the music is created while the game runs with Web Audio.
The file sent over the network is about 56KB, and the game was designed to load in about one second on a ten-year-old Android phone. Hosting runs on the free tier of , while the uses a and KV. The game has no accounts and no cookies, but it still checks every submitted field on the server and limits requests by IP address.
It passes the W3C Nu validator with no errors and one planned warning. AI wrote the code, but the human work was designing the product, testing each build on real devices, and finding bugs that the AI introduced, including a Web Audio leak that caused music problems on iPhones.
Key points
- Claude wrote the code, while the maker handled design, testing, and correction.
- The finished game is one HTML file with no framework or .
- The target was fast loading on old hardware, including a ten-year-old Android phone.
- , , and KV handle hosting and the .
- Real-device testing exposed a Web Audio leak that desktop testing did not reveal.