Star Drill · an Orion easter egg
- Made with
- Claude by Anthropic — code, game systems, effects and sound, built in conversation with Fran.
Inspired by
- Star Fox 64
- Inspired by it. No Nintendo code, art or sound. Star Fox is a trademark of Nintendo.
- Dragon Ball
- Inspired by it: the kamehameha, the long-range beam you send back. Only the name and the idea; no drawings, footage or sound from the series.
- Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
- Inspired by it: the drill, the spiral and the Giga Drill Breaker. No drawings, footage or sound from the series.
What we made
- The drill roll: shield and weapon at once
- The charged shot, a holographic drill that locks on
- The giga drill, the mega shot and the super parry
- The Power meter and the Giga Drill Breaker finisher
- Five sectors named after Orion’s stars, and the station at Rigel
- The style ranks, up to SUPER SPIRAL SKYBREAKER
- The cartridge, the neon title and the world scoreboard
Music
- Jefe · Selva · Orión
- Composed for this game with Claude, played with FluidSynth and the FluidR3 bank (MIT).
Sound
- Effects
- Synthesized live in the browser, with recipes adapted from NOVA LANCER (MIT). The laser shots were made for this game.
- Hits, shots & parries
- “Sci-Fi Hit”, “Fat Sci-Fi Shot”, “Sci-Fi Weaponry Discharging”, “Gritty Sci-Fi”, “Sci-Fi Metal Impacts”, “Metal Hit”, “Sci-Fi Metal Object Crushed” and “Scissors”, sound effects licensed by Fran Bencosme, cut, pitched and layered for this game.
- Giga Drill Breaker
- “Charging Transition” by urbazon, plus “Rattling Drilling” and “Sci-Fi Explosion”, licensed from AudioJungle, cut and layered for this game.
Assets & code
- Enemies
- Space Kit by Kenney (ships, crystal rocks, rocket, dish, barrels), CC0, coloured by this page’s palette.
- Quality
