Show HN: My 4 year old made a game

4 pinchydev 6 4/28/2025, 11:26:11 PM mychickengame.com ↗
Bored playing the nth round of Uno, I thought it would be fun to write a game with my 4 year old daughter.

Using Claude Sonnet 3.7 as our "developer" and me acting as the "Product Manager" aka LLM translator, I tried to capture her instructions as verbatim as I could, only adding context to make the prompts work.

The result is a simple browser game which you can play. I added a writeup of all the prompts along the way so you can see how this was put together.

It was only after I realised where she drew her inspiration from.

If you have kids, it's definitely a fun exercise. My wife and I were blown away with how quickly we got something working, my daughter grew tired of it after about a minute.... I fear that this generation will never really appreciate how much effort this used to take.

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Comments (6)

cranberryturkey · 3d ago
what i love is with my 30+ years of experience this game will probably make more money than I ever did.
pinchydev · 3d ago
LOL Given the game is free that's a double ouch!
cranberryturkey · 3d ago
toss an ad up there.
parrit · 3d ago
How to play? Do I need keyboard?
pinchydev · 3d ago
unfortunately yes :( (needs arrow keys)

[edit] I added touch controls for you :) I put these in seperate includes.

parrit · 3d ago
Oh nice! Thanks!