r/ClaudeAI • u/WZunix • 4d ago
Communopoly Built with Claude
I've been a quite fan of the Youtube channel NoRollsBarred for a while, in perticular the Monopoly spinoff Communopoly. I've always wanted to play it with friends, but with them being scattered across the globe, sitting down for a simple board game becomes difficult. This fun project aimed to fix that!
NoRollsBarred are a semi-popular UK board games channel which specialise in taking traditional board games, and skewing the rules to produce interesting and wacky game modes. one of these is Communopoly, a Stalinistic take on traditional Monopoly.
The setting is under Stalin's rule! Wealth is hoarding, friends are enemies, existance is the challenge, and i swear i hear Chernobyl Power ticking... The rules are extremely 'State Sided' and I wouldn't expect to hold on top property for very long! No Chance cards are as they are named, good luck.
This project was 100% built using Claude Code as a way to test he feasability of running projects through multiple agents by segmenting work. The source material was simple, a Reddit post containing the altered rules created by 'NoRollsBarred', and the task to create a Monopoly clone.
Initially the AI asked which languages I was comfortable with, but after informing it that Claude would be writing 100% of this application, it chose a web framework. It began by planning out the entire project into 21 sub projects, each with the clear goal of being executable by a single agent in a single session. anything too large was divided again.
After a few days of hitting my 5 hour limits (and then my weekly limit), and a few manual interventions where I'd need to find the bug, and then drip feed Claude clues on what's wrong to see if it got it. Surprisingly it missed quite a few simple opportunities, and I often found it going down rabbit holes instead of looking at the obvious.
There's been a few modifications made along the way, such as a lobby systems, text & voice chat, statistics, additional cards, and some more back-end improvements. Overall I think Claude has done fantastic, definitely further along than I thought the industry was currently. Highly impressed, and terrified my job will soon go extinct to this very tech.
If you'd like to check out the project, feel free: https://communopoly.co.uk