alt Hacker NewsMy dad asked recently if AI is good enough to create something like DX Ball - a breakout style game we used to play a lot.
Opus 5.5: https://claude.ai/artifact/UuT7P936dU1XoPByYZ7xyD Fable 5.2: https://claude.ai/artifact/UszKFvuonWAT5psjMttAEg
There are some areas in which Fable is clearly better but subjectively the Opus 5.5 version feels more fun.
Both are one shots, Opus 5.5 was done a few weeks ago before they added "guardrails" around recreating games. Fable 5.2 changed some game mechanics despite my prompt asking for them to be the same as original game.
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In my 2 minutes of testing I liked the gameplay elements from Fable 5.2 much better. I think Opus 5.5 sound effects may have been a bit better but that's it.
I am kinda new to this -- how is this deployed in claude website?
opus 5.5 version seems to never time out powerups like fire ball. this is wrong and obvious.
I think there is an important difference here.
It can create something like DX ball easy, because its already there, the AI already knows what it is
It can not create a game on the same level as DX ball, something new i mean, not a mechanic added on top, a real new game that feels like a game that would have come out the same year as DX ball
AI is great at executing the task, but it can not for its life (or for the anthropic reputation, it seems to care more about that) create something new from scratch, it can not do game design thats not just change the speed of the ball or the paddle color. Probably a limitation thats there from the start
> Fable 5.2 changed some game mechanics despite my prompt asking for them to be the same as original game.
Couldn't you have been downgraded to 4.8, since direct reproduction of existing games classifies as unsafe?
> Fable 5.2 changed some game mechanics despite my prompt asking for them to be the same as original game.
I couldn't care less about AI-generated games, but such restrictions are just destroying the value of proprietary models. Even more frustrating is that it so far hasn't been considered illegal to steal all the information for training the models, but now it's becoming illegal to ask for these same models to output this information back.