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No. 018Games, v1.0, opened 09/24/2026

COLOSSUS

A single-prompt Claude Code benchmark that grew into a real souls-like boss fight against a stone golem in a drowned arena.

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Built with Opus 5.5

1What is real

  • 1Cinzel and EB Garamond fontsNatanael Gama; Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo (via @fontsource)SIL OFL 1.1

2How it was built

51 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 5.551

3Related files

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Colophon

Each file here started as a question about whether something could be built: a mechanism, a plateau, an ecosystem, an orbit. They were built with Claude Code and kept with their sources, their status and the models that wrote them. Copy it, pass it on.