I’ve posted a few times about my learning curve with Claude, my “first” when it comes to AI interaction and collaboration. One of the tricky things about being a tired old man who still has to attentively work through the steps of paying by card in the self-check line is that I’m not always sure what’s cool and interesting and potentially fun and what’s just kinda sad because yeah – everyone’s already been there, done that, and moved on.
I don’t want to get too giddy about something only to find out it lands me safely alongside that lady from the district office who’s excited by reviewing for quizzes by playing Jeopardy and that weird English teacher who has her students turn Shakespeare into raps. BECAUSE KIDS LOVE THE RAPS!
Nevertheless, over the summer I ended up spending a zillion or so hours with Claude working on a rather basic little text game I hoped to use for review in my AP World History class this year. Because the size of the game became an issue, we ended up splitting it into two very similar games, each with roughly the same number or questions and same rules.
Claude had a “publish” option which sort of finalizes stuff like this and makes it available to anyone with whom you choose to share the link. What I didn’t realize was that this “published” version was still very much bound to the chat in which it was created, and I accidentally deleted it a few weeks later while cleaning up old chats to make it easier to find the ones I needed.
Like I said, tired old man still figuring things out.
I finally got around to rebuilding them (with Claude’s help), and while there’s simply no recapturing the joy of success the first time round, they seem to be more or less functional.
I’m sharing them here in hopes some readers will try them out. Obviously I hope you consider them engaging and educational and find yourself in awe of my mad “asking AI to do stuff for me” skills. I confess, however, that I also wouldn’t mind feedback or suggestions – especially if something doesn’t seem to be working correctly or you find any of the answers or detractors or anything else in the game questionable (or just plain wrong).
As always, you can reach me at [email protected] on this, or any other topic. Enjoy!
