Samizdat PublicationsThings I built to see if they could be built.

No. 024Games, in development, opened 10/08/2026

Hearthfall

A custom remake of the '90s god game Populous on a tiny wrapping planet, where prayers are your power and the land is your weapon.

Built with Opus 5.5

1What is real

  • 1Code, design docs, data and levelsClaude Code, directed by Stewart GregersonMIT
  • 23D modelsGenerated with Meshy from Gemini conceptsMeshy Terms of Service
  • 3Concept art, icons, textures, interface pieces, key artGenerated with Google GeminiGemini API Additional Terms
  • 4Sound effects, voices, musicGenerated with ElevenLabsElevenLabs Terms of Service
  • 5Marcellus SC, Alegreya Sans, Alegreya Sans SC fontsAstigmatic; Huerta TipograficaSIL OFL 1.1

2How it was built

308 commits, counted from the repository history:

  • Opus 5.5308

3Related files

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.