Ask for your first game

The child says what the game should be. The grown-up types it. Start with one sentence:

Make a game where you are a dragon collecting gems in the clouds, for 1 to 4 players. Keep play together working. Then run the tests.

Claude reads the starter and builds the game on a copy called a branch. A branch lets you try a change without changing the main game. Claude runs the tests and tells you what it did.

Publish the change

A pull request is a request to put the change into your game. To merge means to put the tested change into your game’s main copy.

1. Wait until Claude says it is done.
2. Click Create PR to open a pull request. GitHub opens.
3. Merge the change:
   1. Click Merge pull request.
   2. Click Confirm merge.
4. Wait a minute or two for the change to be published:
   1. Click the Actions tab.
   2. Look for a green dot next to the newest run.
5. Reload your game’s page.

Your first game is on the web. That is the whole loop:

Ask → merge → play.

Everything you do from now on is this loop again.

Before you merge

If something is not right, say so: “The dragon is too small, make it bigger.” Claude changes it on the same branch. Merge once it is right.

Next: Improve your game.