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Build logs

What each thing in the arcade was asked for, what came back, and what it had to work out along the way. Written as it happened.

  1. Overworld

    I want a cyberpunk A Link to the Past. The first piece is a city to walk around, and it's Portland.

    Log
  2. The Gauntlet

    Snake 3D grew levels and nine kinds of enemy. The target was Geometry Wars by level 10.

    Log
  3. Four ways to Florida

    Four search algorithms race from Corvallis to Jacksonville across a terrain map of the lower 48. Two of them find the cheapest route. Only one of them is smart about it.

    Demo
  4. Benchmark snake

    I ask every new model to build Snake on a sphere. Claude Fable 5.1 built the one on this site.

    Log