A solo browser game built with ChatGPT and Claude in the workflow
‘The Emperor’s Games’ is a pre-alpha now being built and tested. It is a dark-fantasy Roman arena battler where players build a house of condemned fighters, enter the Emperor’s blood games, survive waves of enemies, recruit new champions, improve their roster, and compete on Glory . ChatGPT is used to shape design ideas, challenge game systems, and keep a detailed development plan and .
Claude is used to help with coding. ChatGPT is used for images and concepts. The project is not treated as a one-prompt build: the maker tests the game, makes the design choices, rejects weak ideas, and follows a detailed plan.
The game runs directly in the browser with no download and no login, and it supports mobile portrait play as well as desktop browsers. The maker wants honest criticism about anything that feels bad, unclear, too slow, too easy, too confusing, or not worth continuing.
Key points
- ChatGPT is used for design thinking, system questions, planning, and .
- Claude is used as a coding helper.
- ChatGPT is used for images and concepts.
- The game is playable in a browser without a download or login.
- The maker is asking for blunt feedback on fun, speed, difficulty, clarity, and whether the game is worth continuing.