Asking LLMs to create my game Shepard's Dog

Shepherd's Dog is a game I've wanted to create for a long time

Not sure if you're aware, but there was a game like that for playstation and GBA, called Sheep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_(video_game) Here's some gameplay footage (player here didn't chose a dog to play with for some reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP058CHQj20 Premise of the game is the same, you run the sheep to the designated area over obstacles.

Just tried a 1-shot on Grok3 - Thinking and it couldn't get past the start button. Throws an error: | "<a class='gotoLine' href='#67:39'>67:39</a> Uncaught ReferenceError: startGame is not defined"

Scope issue.

No barking or dog player model but pretty similar in style to Claude's output.

What's interesting to me about playing with AI Codegen is each model has specific and sometimes overlapping output errors. Claude 3.7 really like to solve errors by returning dummy data as a 'fallback' when doing client or server calls. A little prompting can reduce this but not eliminate it. 'The tests always pass if you return dummy data'

https://jsfiddle.net/aL3ugtj1/

Here is an attempt using Google Gemini 2.0 Pro Experimental.

https://gist.github.com/jchv/e8869a7cbe2d854a0ec93e946030d90...

It seems like it has some issues, but the result is interesting nonetheless. Just a one-shot like the others, needed a single "Keep going" but otherwise this is the vanilla output from the prompt.

Edit: Looks like you can share an HTML preview of a gist using html-preview.github.io, so here's that. https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://gist.githubuserc... - It'll go to level 2 if you refresh the page and hit Restart, but I don't think it's possible to clear Level 2. The flock stays too far apart to fit enough sheep in the pen.

I just played the Claude attempt and found that the "fence" in level 3 doesn't actually obstruct either the dog or the sheep. Otherwise pretty fun.

great demos. one shotting isnt really fair imo, i feel like that might be hard even for a human to do (working without feedback). i'd be curious what deepseek would do with a bit more feedback.

Since you’re releasing the code to GitHub, do you think you’ll eventually run into issues with the training data including prior versions of the game?

After some rounds in Cursor using different models

https://show.franzai.com/a/leaf-bug-wasp (LGPT - feel free to fork - Page will vanish in 3 months)

Tip: don't push them into a corner! I got up to lvl 7 without a problem, and then I got them stuck in a corner and that was it :( Poor sheep will spend the night in the cold outside the barn!

That you remember this from one month before I was born is incredible.

uBO lite as well:

> uBO Lite has prevented the following page from loading:

https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco...

The page was blocked because of a matching filter in OpenPhish Domain Blocklist.

Are they doing this now? Oh brother! And here I was thinking WASM would be a good solution to the desktop exe signing problem for my community's roguelike. Instead browser vendors are likely just going to ban the site.

interesting, im also using edge (with all security settings set to maximum) and it works fine for me. Maybe the difference is that I'm using it on mac?

I clicked it and went, oh this is actually fun. It feels very early iPhone days mobile game.

I once made a boid-thingy, which this also reminds me of. https://matsemann.github.io/boids-workshop/ (and since the parent game is mostly boid behavior with a goal condition, I guess that's why the LLM is so successful in implementing it?)

The link is the final result with lots of controls, but the idea is that it's a tutorial/workshop where you build it step by step yourself, in Norwegian though https://github.com/Matsemann/boids-workshop

Weird coincidence, but you made the exact same typo the OP made in their prompt. It's "built", not "build" :)