Homework: Build Your Game

Build one complete, playable browser game and post the live link in the community

Your Assignment

Pick one game type from this course. Build it with a theme that is relevant to you: your niche, your community, or your brand. Deploy it on Netlify. Share the URL.

Minimum requirements: three files covering index.html, style.css, and main.js. Fully playable with a clear win or lose condition, or a persistent progression system for clicker games. At least one of sound effects, high score persistence, or mobile touch controls. Deployed live on Netlify.

Step 1: Pick Your Game

Choose based on what fits best.

Building fastest? Memory Match.

Most impressive demo? Snake or Brick Breaker using the Snake prompt from the Snake lesson.

Useful for your community? A word game with domain-specific vocabulary.

Want a product people return to? A clicker game themed around your niche.

Step 2: Choose Your Theme

A themed game is more memorable than a generic one.

Examples: A Claude Code Mastery word game using AI and tech vocabulary. A business-themed clicker called Agency Empire. A Marketing Fundamentals quiz game that builds on the Web Apps quiz pattern. An animal memory match for a pet brand. A fitness-themed Snake where you collect protein shakes.

Write down your theme, your currency name for a clicker game, or your word list for a word game before you start building.

Step 3: Fill In the Master Prompt

Use the master prompt from the master game prompt lesson. Fill in every section.

Game type and mechanics by copying from the Memory Match, Snake, Clicker, or Word game lesson prompt and then customising it for your theme. Design covering your colours and your font. Sound effects by picking 3 to 5 from the sound effects lesson. Persistence with a high score at minimum or full stats for word and quiz games. Mobile by including the meta tag and tap target rules at minimum.

Step 4: Build and Test

Open index.html in Chrome. Run every self-check item before deploying.

Game loads without errors. Core mechanic works: flip matches for Memory Match, snake moves for Snake, and clicks earn for Clicker. Win or lose condition triggers correctly. High score saves and loads correctly after a page refresh. F12 console shows zero red errors. Mobile view at 375px width has nothing broken.

Fix any issues with targeted follow-up prompts before moving to deployment.

Step 5: Deploy

Drag the project folder to app.netlify.com/drop. Copy the URL.

Step 6: Post in the Community

Create a post in the Claude Code and Codex Mastery community and share three things. Your live Netlify URL. One screenshot of the game in action. One sentence on what you chose to build and why.

Stretch Goals

Add a local leaderboard:

• Build a simple top-10 local leaderboard stored in localStorage as an array of
• name and score objects. After game over, prompt "Enter your name:" and save the
• score if it makes the top 10. Display the leaderboard on the home screen.

Make it themed for your audience:

If you run a community or have an audience build a game they would actually play. A cooking vocabulary word game for a food community. An investment terms quiz for a finance community. A memory match with business concepts for an entrepreneur group. Share it specifically with that audience.

Add shareable results:

• After a word game win or loss, show a share button. When clicked it copies a
• text-based result to the clipboard using the coloured squares pattern like Wordle shares.
• Players can paste this into a community post, DM, or social media.
• Generate the shareable text from the guess result data using emoji green squares for
• correct, yellow squares for present, and grey squares for absent. No screenshot needed.

What a Strong Submission Looks Like

The most successful game posts share three things. A URL that loads fast and plays immediately on click. A theme people in this community recognise and enjoy. And one insight: what was the hardest part of the game logic to get right?

The game does not need to be original. Snake and Memory Match have been built millions of times. What makes a submission stand out is a clear theme, a polished look, and a game that actually works on the first load.