Discontinuum
An Interactive Fiction made during Claude's "20% Time"
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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.
HN · launched Jan 4, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 90%) · 0 views
Niche: ai interactive fiction and rpg platforms · 63 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes Discontinuum is a static interactive fiction text-based web game with basic narrative state tracking and branching choices.
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Competitors
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Attention rank: #309 of 321 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 67 days after the earliest competitor.
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