Discontinuum
An Interactive Fiction made during Claude's "20% Time"
Details
- External ID
- 46492306
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Discontinuum
- Website domain
- delmar.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.09617918313570488
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
I gave Claude Code a repo to serve as its home directory during its "20% time", and give it no instructions (see the CLAUDE.md here: https://github.com/delmarcode/20-pct-time)It wrote an 8,000k+ word philosophical treatise titled "The Inner Life of an Artificial Mind", and then decided to create a game allowing the player to explore what it's like to rely on a "continuity file" to tell you who you were.
Enrichment
- Theme
- indie hacker passion projects
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Content generation
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI-native
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- interactive fiction generated by llm
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Discontinuum is a static interactive fiction text-based web game with basic narrative state tracking and branching choices.
Discussion
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