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Fighting Game Showdown

Episode 2 flips the experiment. Where the season opener pitted three different Claude models against each other, this round controls for the model — everyone gets Claude Opus 4.8 — and isolates the human variable. Three different brains, three different prompting styles, three completely different fighting games. Ashley enters her first official rotation with a neon-jungle brawler. Scott goes whimsical with a pond-creature combat sim. Devin keeps it classic with an arcade-style two-fighter showdown. Five prompts each, same budget, same model — but watching three humans solve the same brief gives a sharper read on how prompt craft, not just model choice, shapes the final game.

3-person · 5 prompts each · same model
AshleyOpus
ScottOpus
DevinOpus
Prompt 2 of 540%
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The Showdown

3 Builds. 3 Models. Pick a Winner.

Click any build to play it full-screen. Vote for your favorite; the leaderboard updates live.

Opus 4.8
Ashley

Jungle Clash

by Ashley

Bioluminescent brawler. Trade codes, fight for the canopy.

Neon jungle · Arcade · Versus · Online co-op.
Opus 4.8
Scott

King of the Pond

by Scott

Last creature on the lily pad wins the pond.

Choose your creature · Lily pad combat · Pond royale.
Opus 4.8
Devin

Neon Fists

by Devin

Two fighters enter. Best of three. Arcade purist edition.

Select fighter · Round 1 · Best of three.

Live Leaderboard

  1. Jungle Clash
    Ashley
    0
    votes
  2. King of the Pond
    Scott
    0
    votes
  3. Neon Fists
    Devin
    0
    votes

Phase 1 votes are stored locally on your device. Real community voting comes online when the admin platform launches.

The Prompts

Five prompts. No edits. No do-overs.

The exact instructions each crew member gave their AI, in order. Filled in as the episode progresses.

Claude Opus 4.82 of 5 prompts used
Used

[Prompt #1 — Scott to fill in real text]

Used

[Prompt #2 — Scott to fill in real text]

Pending

Prompt 3 coming next session.

Pending

Prompt 4 coming next session.

Pending

Prompt 5 coming next session.

The Numbers

Build comparison

Same prompt budget. Different models. Different outcomes. The numbers tell the story behind each build.

Build statistics will be filled in as the episode progresses.

Currently tracking: lines of code, total tokens, feature count, and three subjective ratings.

Watch the Episode

The full breakdown

Every prompt, every reveal, every moment of “wait, the AI did what?” — captured for posterity.

Coming soon

The episode is still in production. The video will drop once all five prompts are used.

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