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Practical challenge with a $250 prize: Make a 2D isometric HTML+JS game (dealer's choice on library) in the next 48 hours that satisfies these modest random requirements:

A character walks around a big ornate classic library, pulling books from bookshelves looking for a special book that causes a shelf to rotate around and reveal a hidden room and treasure chest. The player can read the books and some are just filler but some have clues about the special book. If this can be done with art, animations, sound, UI, the usual stuff, I'll believe the parent poster's claim to be true.

As someone using LLM-based workflows daily to assist with personal and professional projects, I'll wager $250 that this is not possible.


Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).


The question at the heart of people's anxiety here is: Would you bet that same $250 if AI had 5 years to be able to do it?


Do you know of an example game I can play right now?




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