HOW DO YOU BUILD A GAME SOLO?! Claude Opus 5.5 + Sonnet 5.5 + Tripo + Unity 6: 31 sessions, one 20 usd subscription in claude code and a few dolars for models

me: the design and the playtesting. Tripo: the models. Opus: the hard geometry and the art direction. Sonnet: the clear stuff you can check. a shell script: the queue

1. bring in the Tripo models: the girl (70k triangles), the cat (80k), the dog, the ray (30k), the toaster (30k), the spoon (12k). 16 models total, $8.20
$0.60 per eacj and about 2-3 min each

rigs and animations cost $0, the cat got 28 bones and 4 clips (Idle, Walk, Run, Pounce) written as code

2. one task per fresh session
> my first big brief (the whole kitchen + the ray) ran 39 min for $10.30 and hit the session limit halfway. small briefs fixed that and it got cheaper

3. every brief starts with the same header: world scale (hero 1.65 m, counter top at y = 36), what already works, one task. never delete files. if a step fails twice, stop and write the exact error
> also in the header: don't re-read or rebuild what works, reuse the helper scripts, open every screenshot you take

4. every brief ends with a check line: grow the coil, climb, take, jump, glide, land
> ask for a screenshot and the numbers next to it: heights, distances, speeds, triangle counts

5. Opus got 17 sessions for $70 (spoon bridge, room look, rope, parachute). Sonnet got 14 for $17 (materials, props, UI, sounds), most under 10 min
> the hero as a playable character: 208 sec, $1.23

6. a script runs the briefs one after another. when it hits a usage lie, waits and reruns the same brief with one extra line: check whatexists and continue. it picked itself back up twice overnight
> at 5:12 and 10:12, with a git commit after every brief

7. each session adds 15 lines to a progress file: what works, what's s

my rule: feel is my job. i play the level, write down what's wrong, anxt brief

the header and the script are in the article

do you give Claude the whole game in one prompt, or a queue of small tasks?