Claude feels like cheating.

I'll start by tell you. I'm not a coder! I'm a housewife. I haven't gone to college. I barely passed high school. And know absolutely nothing about coding, gaming, design, or any of that really.

And yet while making my simple game. Using Godot as Claude recommended. I have quite literally, built a design document around 2k words long. Given it to Claude code(Claude helped me get this set up, and hooked into visual studio, and then plugged into Godot.) And just.... let it rip against the design document!

It was astonishing. In a few hours. Running 4.8 Max. And just letting him go for it. He managed to make a fully fleshed out game based on our design together.

The issue was, it wasn't a good game. It worked but needed a lot of work. Which is what I'm doing now! But I don't know how Godot works, I don't know scripts, or the file system, or any of the odd things most coders probably look at and just know.

So I explained to Claude. I want drag and drop capability for my level design, I want to basically be able to just slide a bar or change a number value in an easy way that lets me manipulate the game space as if I'm a two year old throwing blocks at a screen. And claude on the fly. Basically designed a whole system that holds my hand the whole time allowing me to build levels, set enemy spawn time, set score requirements, reshape the game field, and give objects properties. From simple drop down menus and sliding bars that show a number.

This feels like it's cheating. That someone like me with no knowledge of any of the systems I'm tinkering with can make a game.

The one problem claude ran into, and it was a physical play requirement that meant it needed human feel, was how it played. Outside of that. Claude basically built my game himself and has just built me the tools to tinker with what he built.

I know I can't call myself a game developer, or anything like that. But my god is it fun to have something that feels like magic.