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Snake Through Time

3D Snake, from behind a big fat anaconda, across ten moments in history: dinosaur jungles, an Ice Age cave, the brand-new pyramids, the Parthenon, the Colosseum, a medieval castle, Machu Picchu, Edo Japan, Buckingham Palace at the Diamond Jubilee and the Moon.

What you doSlither round each arena eating the local food (dinosaur eggs, roast meat, scarabs, pomegranates, grapes, pies, maize, sushi, fish & chips and moon cheese) and grow longer without hitting a wall or yourself. Turn left and right from the snake's view, with a map in the corner. Crash, and someone famous judges you: a T-rex, the Emperor, Queen Victoria.

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The details

Genre: Arcade
Plays: In your browser, right here on Viber Cove
Price: Free
Players: Single player
Hosted on: Viber Cove (it's our own game)

The AI label

AI model: Claude
AI tools: Claude Code
AI made: CodeArtMusicSound

From the developer's own disclosure or jam entry. If they didn't say, we don't guess.

How it was made

Our own game, so here's exactly how we built it: the real prompts, the model and the time it took. No course to buy.

Model: Claude Opus 5.5
Tools: Claude Code, in the Claude desktop app · A headless browser script, so Claude could screenshot and test each era itself
Built with: three.js · Web Audio (every sound and the music are generated in code) · One self-contained HTML file
Time: About 1 hour 15 minutes of Claude working for the first build: the Colosseum first, then all 10 eras (27 to 28 Sep 2026). Two later sessions polished the sound and the maps
Prompts: 1 main prompt to start, then short rounds of feedback after playing
Cost: No per-game bill (made on a Claude subscription). For scale: Claude wrote about 350,000 tokens of code and reasoning in the first build session

The prompt

to make snake. I want to make 3D snake, like um, like your. It's like third person perspective behind the snake, but you also have a 2D top down map on the right hand side, so you can see yourself. But it's in a 3D world map, and I want it to be called Snake Through Time. So there'll be like 10 maps, and they're all different pieces in time. So Machu Picchu, ancient Rome, the Parthenon, Victorian London, a caveman, Neanderthal, dinosaurs one, stuff like that. But I'm just worried, like, can we even execute a 3D version of Snake? So let's tr make it. Make one map first, and I just want to see what it looks like and if it works. So just make the Colosseum one. And we'll go from there. I want it to be really stylized and cool, like 3D graphics. A big, fat anaconda snake. Like, I want it to look decent. I don't want it to look hyper-realistic, but 3D and, like, well-made and well-done.
The opening prompt, spoken by voice and pasted in as-is. Starting with one map to prove 3D Snake works, then building the rest, kept it on track.

How the build went

Claude wrote all of the code. It proved the idea with one map, the Colosseum, then built the other nine eras, each with its own food, sounds and a character watching, and tested each one with screenshots from a script before handing it over. After playing, the feedback was short: pull the camera out, no obstacles, and give every era its own food (Rome got grapes). A later round said the sound effects were horrible with no music, so Claude swapped them for gentle chimes and wrote a looping tune in code. Another turned the London map into Buckingham Palace in 1897.