Blaster Bastards: preview shared by u/Quick-Somewhere-918
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Blaster Bastards

I handed Claude the code from a game I made 20 years ago to see how much I could improve it

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A revived multiplayer bomb game with new artwork, music, and computer opponents. The creator describes a free Windows and Mac release rebuilt from their original source code.

Genre
Arcade
Runs on
Windows, macOS
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    I handed Claude the code from a game I made 20 years ago to see how much I could improve it ↗

    About 20 years ago, I made a little multiplayer bomb game called Blaster Bastards. The source code has been sitting around ever since, and I wanted to see if I could revive the old game and how much I could improve it using modern AI tools. I started with the original source code and worked my way through the game, improving the graphics, gameplay, and adding new features along the way. Here's what I ended up using: Claude Opus 5.5 — Coding, gameplay improvements, and computer-controlled opponents. GPT-6 — New graphics, characters, and game assets. Suno — New music. It's fun to see how easy…

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