In a 20-minute video, Mark Brown of Game Maker’s Toolkit walks through his feelings over a Claude Code-made clone of his own Word Play game. He’s more even-keeled than I would be about Claude replicating something he made over the course of seven months in just twelve minutes.

(Anthropic, for what it’s worth, has made changes to try and prevent Claude-made game clones.)

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