Little Homes

Information

The basic idea is that you are a birdhouse carpenter. You live a bit outside of the town and enjoy your own company. You enjoy nature, slow living and building things. Hopefully the birdhouses will be the home for birds and they will lay eggs there. You keep an eye on this and maintain the houses as well.

Technology and tools

Codex, GPT-6 Astra, Three.js, Blender

Learnings

• I've experimented with creating 3D games in Unreal Engine 5.8 with the MCP, but this was slow and the results was not great. Combining Astra and Three.js allowed me to create the initial version of the game in just one prompt in 33 minutes. That included the environment, first person mechanics, physics, models and building mechanics.
• It's token expensive to have Astra generate 3D assets and sometimes the results is not great. I was able to get much better results when instructing Astra to use Blender to create the assets. While it yielded decent results, the token cost was still high.
• Downloading free 3D assets online is a more effective use of both time and tokens. They are easy to integrate and often come with great animations out of the box. This allows for more focus on the core gameplay mechanics.
• Astra thinks that Foxes and Deers should behave like pets :) It's helpful to be specific about behaviour and mechanics.

Kudos and credits

Friends and family testing the game. quaternius.com