Tribune's Last Stand, a browser-based Warhammer 40K vertical slice

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Description

Hi HN, I'm James. Over the last few months I built a Warhammer 40K 10th-edition vertical slice as an experiment in how far GenAI tools can take a solo dev on a non-trivial 2D game. For sprite generation, whilst creative exploration was fast, getting high-quality and consistent images was hard. Gemini ended up stylistically best here but I had to use BiRefNet for background removal. While I experimented with Claude for map generation and layout I ended up finding it fastest to build a full

Discovered

May 19, 2026

Added to Database

May 19, 2026

Notes

Discovered via hackernews search; 3 AI keyword matches

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