Shepherd's Dog is a game I've wanted to create for a long time, but I never got the sheep flocking behaviour just right. The goal of the game is to herd all the sheep into the pen before nightfall. I've asked several models to create this game and I'm particularly impressed with what Claude 3.7 could do with a one-shot prompt.
Shepherd's Dog is a game I've wanted to create for a long time
Not sure if you're aware, but there was a game like that for playstation and GBA, called Sheep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_(video_game) Here's some gameplay footage (player here didn't chose a dog to play with for some reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP058CHQj20 Premise of the game is the same, you run the sheep to the designated area over obstacles.
Ah thanks for this. The game above is lovely and it’s really similar to what I had in mind (I was also thinking of lemmings!). I see in the other comments below that this idea of mine has been created as a game a lot of times already. Seems like I’m not as original as I thought haha
Just tried a 1-shot on Grok3 - Thinking and it couldn't get past the start button. Throws an error:
| "<a class='gotoLine' href='#67:39'>67:39</a> Uncaught ReferenceError: startGame is not defined"
Scope issue.
No barking or dog player model but pretty similar in style to Claude's output.
What's interesting to me about playing with AI Codegen is each model has specific and sometimes overlapping output errors. Claude 3.7 really like to solve errors by returning dummy data as a 'fallback' when doing client or server calls. A little prompting can reduce this but not eliminate it. 'The tests always pass if you return dummy data'
It seems like it has some issues, but the result is interesting nonetheless. Just a one-shot like the others, needed a single "Keep going" but otherwise this is the vanilla output from the prompt.
Edit: Looks like you can share an HTML preview of a gist using html-preview.github.io, so here's that. https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://gist.githubuserc... - It'll go to level 2 if you refresh the page and hit Restart, but I don't think it's possible to clear Level 2. The flock stays too far apart to fit enough sheep in the pen.
great demos. one shotting isnt really fair imo, i feel like that might be hard even for a human to do (working without feedback). i'd be curious what deepseek would do with a bit more feedback.
Seems o3-mini implements the 'boids' algorithm for flocking (likely due to its prevalence online), but I find that here it doesn't really fit.
Indeed in boids each element has a constant (or minimum) velocity, s.t. the sheep never stop 'running'. I find the Claude flocking behaviour looks more natural, for sheep.
Tip: don't push them into a corner! I got up to lvl 7 without a problem, and then I got them stuck in a corner and that was it :( Poor sheep will spend the night in the cold outside the barn!
Are they doing this now? Oh brother! And here I was thinking WASM would be a good solution to the desktop exe signing problem for my community's roguelike. Instead browser vendors are likely just going to ban the site.
interesting, im also using edge (with all security settings set to maximum) and it works fine for me. Maybe the difference is that I'm using it on mac?
The one that Claude created was a legitimately fun game! If it implemented boids similar to o3-mini, it would be even better. Slap some sprites on it and put it on steam!
On desktop the map is huuuuge and it's not particularly fun waiting for them to slowly move all the way to the opposite corner. It's cool that one can prototype this quickly, but needs some tweaks from play-testing as with all games I guess.
I once made a boid-thingy, which this also reminds me of. https://matsemann.github.io/boids-workshop/ (and since the parent game is mostly boid behavior with a goal condition, I guess that's why the LLM is so successful in implementing it?)
The link is the final result with lots of controls, but the idea is that it's a tutorial/workshop where you build it step by step yourself, in Norwegian though https://github.com/Matsemann/boids-workshop
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- You can play the Claude game here (note: doesn't work on Safari for some reason): https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco...
- o3-mini's version is here: https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://raw.githubuserco...
Results of other models and a leaderboard is here: https://github.com/vnglst/when-ai-fails/blob/main/shepards-d...
Some videos: https://hachyderm.io/@vnglst/114125938185826311
Not sure if you're aware, but there was a game like that for playstation and GBA, called Sheep! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheep_(video_game) Here's some gameplay footage (player here didn't chose a dog to play with for some reason): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SP058CHQj20 Premise of the game is the same, you run the sheep to the designated area over obstacles.
Scope issue.
No barking or dog player model but pretty similar in style to Claude's output.
What's interesting to me about playing with AI Codegen is each model has specific and sometimes overlapping output errors. Claude 3.7 really like to solve errors by returning dummy data as a 'fallback' when doing client or server calls. A little prompting can reduce this but not eliminate it. 'The tests always pass if you return dummy data'
https://jsfiddle.net/aL3ugtj1/
https://gist.github.com/jchv/e8869a7cbe2d854a0ec93e946030d90...
It seems like it has some issues, but the result is interesting nonetheless. Just a one-shot like the others, needed a single "Keep going" but otherwise this is the vanilla output from the prompt.
Edit: Looks like you can share an HTML preview of a gist using html-preview.github.io, so here's that. https://html-preview.github.io/?url=https://gist.githubuserc... - It'll go to level 2 if you refresh the page and hit Restart, but I don't think it's possible to clear Level 2. The flock stays too far apart to fit enough sheep in the pen.
Indeed in boids each element has a constant (or minimum) velocity, s.t. the sheep never stop 'running'. I find the Claude flocking behaviour looks more natural, for sheep.
Demo: https://show.franzai.com/a/clean-parrot-brown (Page will self-destruct after 3 months, feel free to host it somewhere else)
Oneshot Prompt https://chatgpt.com/share/67cff8e6-e218-8009-af5b-d91060eaed...
https://show.franzai.com/a/leaf-bug-wasp (LGPT - feel free to fork - Page will vanish in 3 months)
See the Crash magazine "Unclear User" parody. Page 125 of the August 1985 edition for context. [0]
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[0] https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/10/infosec_in_brief/
I don't think it's fair to say Mistral didn't implement flocking. The force is just very weak.
EDIT: I guess I confused flocking with herding, fair enough.
I've build a very similar game for a 3 hour game jam once :D
https://h4kor.itch.io/herding-simulator
The link is the final result with lots of controls, but the idea is that it's a tutorial/workshop where you build it step by step yourself, in Norwegian though https://github.com/Matsemann/boids-workshop