AI for fun - built a simple hunting game

[bjseiler]

While I manage a software business as my job, I am not a developer myself. I have been playing with AI the past couple months and I do feel like it is at the point where anyone who can describe their project, can probably build it with AI. I took an old idea and decided to redo it with a game https://www.huntingseason.com

It is a little like if FarmVille and DuckHunt had a baby. You manage your hunting property - put up stands, plant food plots, game cameras, etc. Buy a gun and a bow and hunt. Graphics are comically childish. This isn't the greatest thing in the world. It is free and I did it for fun.

I built the entire game in probably 4-5 total hours. I was going to put it on Facebook but I've been waiting for approval for a week so I redid it to be played from the website (redid the website today to try and make it look a bit nicer).

I am working on a mac. I installed conductor.build to be able to run multiple Claude Codes (or OpenAI Codex) at once. I then installed this library -
https://github.com/garrytan/gstack which does a great job of helping you plan out a project, code it with Claude, QA, etc. Really more of asking you questions based on your idea and then giving you choices. It kind of does the rest. I do have the $100/month Claude plan right now. That is the only thing I've paid for other than hosting for the website (vercel.com).

If you are computer illiterate will you be able to do this? Probably not. You have some computer skills or maybe took a basic programming class 20 years ago? Yeah, I think you could (I'm 50). So, you want to build something to help manage your farm, orchard, etc., it really can be done.

 

[Mortenson]

Cool. My daughter is taking a break from twirling her baton and trying your game.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

That’s wild I will give it a go.

So as a guy in that world, what’s your take on ai? How does it ultimately hurt or help your job?

 

[cbw]

Nicely done!
Claude is amazingly capable. Have you played with OpenClaw at all? We’ve been testing it it a secure environment through IronClaw. I’ve been blown away how it is using agents to make my job easier. Every morning, I wake up to a morning briefing that includes 3-4 files it created for me based on my stated goals for the quarter that I didn’t have to ask it specifically to build—everything from job descriptions to go-to-market strategies for new service offerings. I’ve been blown away.

About every 6 months, I’ve tried building an app that will do image recognition on my game cam photos to sort out the bucks. I’m using Cursor to build. Haven’t quite got the models trained to work correctly for this non-programmer. Maybe someone on here can crack that.


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[bjseiler]

Nothing with openclaw yet. I was trying to automate image generation to continually create new images like below with deer at different distances, angles, etc., but with the grid staying square. AI really struggles with it. Better now than 6 months ago but it really struggles with not wanting to alter or distort the grid no matter how many times you tell it to.

What I have found with AI is you really have to give it very short and specific tasks. Put too much together at once and it will get sloppy fast. Migrating a website with 100's of pages and it looked amazing at first glance until we start checking pages and the AI had started summarizing sections or just skipping them to save time.

I had also thought about using AI on trail cameras but with so many different brands and so many not really give you easy access to the images (phone app only), I kind of dropped the idea.

 

[Telemark]

I had also thought about using AI on trail cameras but with so many different brands and so many not really give you easy access to the images (phone app only), I kind of dropped the idea.

I would think the edge computing would be prohibitively expensive. A trail camera with that capability would probably be in the thousands of dollars, and need a constant supply of electricity.

You might be able to do an app that identifies the buck pictures and automatically downloads the full image, while just delivering thumbnails of everything else. You could add a special alert for buck pics.

Another interesting use for AI on cameras would be to score the rack and judge the weight from the photos. It would also be interesting if AI could clean up the images to make them easier to interpret.

I used to work with AI on cameras, but it was for fish. This was back when photos had to be annotated by people and fed into the system. I'd bet you could find a shortcut with services like Claude.

 

[bjseiler]

Sorry, I did not mean run the AI on the camera, I meant the pictures would flow through the AI for tagging, mapping, timing, identifying, etc., and then show up in a more useful way than what you typically see in the trail camera companies iphone apps. I'm sure they will get there at some point.

 

[Telemark]

Sorry, I did not mean run the AI on the camera, I meant the pictures would flow through the AI for tagging, mapping, timing, identifying, etc., and then show up in a more useful way than what you typically see in the trail camera companies iphone apps. I'm sure they will get there at some point.

It's a great idea. Inwould love to see my trail cam photos organized in a way that give me valuable information, and have it be cumulative.

For example, if I had a camera in a certain location all year every year, what days should I be sat there for my best chance at the type of deer I'm after.

This would probably be dead easy for someone with the right skill set. I can't code, and I'm terrible at organizing data. I just absorb as much as possible and hope my brain translates that into intuition.