Builder's Manual · Chapter 1

How This Game Was Built

This manual is not a guide to extending the game. It is the record of how the game was built — because the build itself is the most instructive thing this project contains for another creator. By the end of it you will know which intelligence did what, where every working document still lives, and how a project of this size can be driven from a two-line brief to a finished game inside Craft.

Who built what

Roughly 95% of this game was built by the Craft AI. Roughly 99% of it was built by AI in general. The human contribution was direction and selection — choosing the theme, choosing the tools, approving each stage before the next one ran, and deciding at the end that nothing should be thrown away. No rule system, file type, task plan or Game Master instruction in this project was written by hand.

The build in one page

The build ran in three phases, each handing off to the next:

Ideation (external AI, Copilot). The human described what Craft can do — narrate and roll dice — and asked for game themes it could carry that were not traditional roleplaying games. From the suggestions returned, the Creature Evolution theme was chosen.
Design (Copilot again). The same assistant was asked to detail everything a game on that theme would need. Its responses were kept verbatim as the numbered design documents now stored in /world creation plans/.
Execution (Craft AI). Control passed to the Craft AI, equipped with the AI Assistant Enhanced package and its Task Plan tool, with instructions to build the game described in those documents — working through a pyramid of task plans, with an audit layer at the bottom.

Each phase produced files, and every one of those files is still in the project.

What still lives in the project

Two folders are the build's paper trail, and both were deliberately preserved:

/world creation plans/ — sixteen design documents, numbered 000 through 012 plus a file schema specification. This is the specification the Craft AI was given.
/Task Plans/ — nineteen task plans (the master construction plan, ten section build plans, and the audit and repair plans) plus fifteen folders of build notes recording what each step actually did.

How to read this manual

From a Prompt to a Theme — phase 1: the ideation brief and why Creature Evolution was picked.
The Design Documents — phase 2: what the world creation plans contain and how they were written.
The Task Plan Pyramid — phase 3: how the Craft AI was instructed to build, and the plan structure it was given.
The Audit Layer — the bottom of the pyramid: how conflicts and common AI failures were hunted down and fixed.
The Build Was Deliberately Left In — why nothing was deleted, and what to do if you want to change the game.

If you are a creator who has cloned this project, start at the top. Everything referenced along the way is a real file you can open.

Manual updated Oct 8, 2026.

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The Mad Scientists Creature Breeding Project

Year 2047: genetic engineering is a licensed global industry, and Research Credits are the only currency that matters. Sign for a converted garage under one of five founder identities — Academic Lab, Private Startup, Ex-Military Program, Field Research Group, or Black Market Operation — and breed the engineered creatures that fill arenas, auctions and patent filings. Each in-game month is a turn resolved by an AI Game Master: buy DNA, assign your four scientists, run research, enter the arenas, and survive inspections, rival labs and the long race toward Transcendence.

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A game designed and built by AI

Build and fight your own MONSTERS

Question : Can the Craft AI design and build an entire game on it's own? Answer : Your looking at it! 95% Craft AI built. 99% AI built.

A laboratory management game where you build and fighter creatures based on your

Best run on a powerful AI such as GLM 5.3 Flash

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Author's note

Build details are given in the world builders file. In Summary : Co-pilot gave a list of game options after being told the system capabilities (narration, dice rolling, sidebar display). It then gave a summary of what the chosen design should include. Text files transferred to Craft in a new campaign and AI Assistant given access to 'AI Assistant Empowered' package. Assistant told to build the game from what it had been given and this is the unedited result.

NOTE: On turn 0 the game builds many of the game files it will use, which makes the game different each time it is run.

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