Bots find their way on a navigation mesh baked from each map at load: up stairs and ramps, over bridges, round railings and through gates. They notice what is in front of them or what shot them, take a moment to react, aim with an error that wanders round you, and fire in bursts with more spread than you. They pick a weapon for the distance, go for the flags in capture the flag and guard the machine in Survival.

Water reflects in every view, through a mirrored camera per player with an oblique projection. Godot has no custom camera projections, so the clipping is done in the toon shader. Four views of that is heavy, so reflections, render scale and pixel size are all settings.

A map event has to be understood on a quarter of a screen. Each one is warned a few seconds ahead, with a horn and then a pulsing warning triangle. Events apply to the bots as well: the sandstorm limits their sight, and after nightfall they spot you mostly when you shoot.

Up to four players join on one setup page with any mix of keyboards and gamepads, and each controller has its own cursor. Everything reads at quarter-screen size: a kill feed, a marker over your teammates through walls, and objectives at the edge of the view. When you die you watch your killer's view through an old CRT, with their gun and the health they have left. Three kills in a row make you glow and run a little faster. An announcer calls double kills, sprees, headshots and backstabs, and the match ends on a podium with awards like Sharpshooter, Tourist and Untouchable.

Everything is built in code from boxes and capsules, in one cel-shaded toon shader with a pixel-art pass: the same look as Shiftguard. The maps are made from level pieces in code and can go to Blender and back as glb. The sound effects are synthesised. Every gun is a look on top of the same MP5, which I edited in Blender and baked back in as both the view model and the gun on the player's body. Guns and heads unlock through play and change how you look. Every gun shoots the same.

By hand: the direction, which came from the internet cafés (quick to join, personal kills, a reason to say 'one more'), and the MP5, edited in Blender over three passes. With AI: the Godot code, the bots, the map events and the Blender export and import tools. The git history runs from 25 to 27 October 2026: three days from the first commit to a playable game with five maps, bots on navigation meshes and a survival mode. Tools: Claude Fable, Claude Opus, Cursor, Gemini, Higgsfield, Figma Weave and Figma.

Playable with up to four players, with records kept between sessions: most kills and headshots in a match, the longest streak, the best accuracy and the most waves held. A shotgun, a rail gun and a rocket launcher are still in the code, set aside.