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Playable games built with AI: code, art, levels, feel.

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Arcade car physics in a browser city: how Claim Avenue does boost, drift and jumps
We read the live code behind Claim Avenue's car update: one tuning table, a boost meter, grip-based drifting and crest jumps, all without a physics engine.
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How Claim Avenue onboards strangers: a playable city as the sign-up page
How the five steps to join Claim Avenue live inside the world: a two-door intro, key hints per mode, open plots shown on the street, and a fallback when WebGL fails.
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Riverside Drive: shipping a new street in a live city without moving a single address
How Claim Avenue's Riverside Drive went live: one config entry, a layout that shifts plots instead of renumbering them, a river distance field, and clients that rebuild to the server's world.
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Keeping a browser city alive: Claim Avenue's shared clock, weather and network budgets
What sits behind Claim Avenue's biggest update: day-night and weather computed from a shared clock instead of pushed by a server, capped position updates, and a world that slows itself down under lag.

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