Claude helped build a PS2-tribute racing game as one file, no assets
A developer used Claude to build and release a free browser tribute to the 2003 PS2 game Downhill Domination. Players race against five AI-controlled riders down a mountain, charging a boost meter with mid-air tricks and punching rivals off their bikes (who then retaliate); a new mountain course is generated every day. It runs in any desktop or mobile browser with no ads and no account required.
The entire game is packaged as a single HTML file with zero separate — every 3D model, texture, and sound effect is generated by code at runtime instead of being loaded from files. Claude also built a scriptable test API to playtest the game in a before release, then reused those same hooks to shoot the trailer, stepping through the game frame by frame to choreograph the highlight footage.
Key points
- Free, browser racing game built with Claude, a tribute to PS2's Downhill Domination
- Entire game is one HTML file with no separate — 3D models, textures, and sounds are all generated by code at runtime
- Race against 5 AI riders; mid-air tricks build boost, punches knock rivals off (they retaliate)
- A new mountain course is each day
- Claude built a scriptable test API, playtested in a , and used the same tooling to shoot the trailer