A Dog's Dinner

A Dog's Dinner is designed and directed by me, a software engineer with 15 years' experience who has always wanted to make games. I use AI the way an engineering lead uses a team: Claude (Anthropic's AI) writes most of the code to my specifications, and nothing ships until I've reviewed it, tested it and played it.

This isn't a prompt-and-publish project. Every feature starts as a written design, goes through review, and is checked by more than 2,500 automated tests and balance runs before each build. I play the builds, including on Steam Deck, and keep a detailed development diary of what worked and what didn't. The design, the systems, the art direction and the honest look at how fresh dog food is made are mine.

The characters, dog and kitchens are built from shapes in code, not drawn by an artist or made by an image generator. Every screenshot and clip is real gameplay. Text was drafted with Claude and edited by me. Music, sound effects and the trailer voice are generated with ElevenLabs. No AI runs while you play, and the game works fully offline.