Petal Quest

Gather twigs, rebuild a bridge, light a dark thicket and outwit a grumpy three-phase beetle in a tiny garden.

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THE GAME LOOP

A small idea worth finishing.

Tile-map exploration with villagers whose lines follow the quest, a five-twig bridge built by holding Action, and sundial checkpoints
Three unlocks that open new routes: a dash over puddle gaps, a thorn strike for brambles and shells, and a lantern for the dark
Readable foes (wandering aphids, rolling pill-bugs, spore puffs) and a three-phase boss that can only be hurt while dizzy

THE LOOK & FEEL

A world with its own personality.

Procedural canvas sprites drawn at 2x: a seedling with walk, strike and roll poses, four villagers, bugs and a big armoured beetle
A palette per area (morning village, noon meadow, dusk thicket, burrow) with painted ground and depth-sorted trees, pots and lamps
Tells drawn on the ground: charge lanes with chevrons, stomp rings and falling-acorn shadows, plus petals, fireflies and a lantern-lit dark

MADE FOR THUMBS

Plan the phone experience first.

Virtual stick bottom-left; a big Action button that names its job and a Dodge button bottom-right, 48px+ in safe areas; dialogue hides them.

The playbook requests H5 layouts and input. Real-device playtesting is still part of the build.

01 / MAKE IT YOURS

Same spark. Your world.

Change a few details. The brief and every build stage update together.

Your main characterYour worldWhat the player wants to achieveA personal touch Optional

02 / YOUR BUILD PLAYBOOKPhaser direction

Create an original top-down garden adventure as one self-contained browser game in Phaser. The player is a little seedling explorer with two leaves for hair exploring a tiny garden: a sprout village, a clover meadow, a dark thicket and a beetle burrow. Goal: rebuild the bridge, light the thicket's lamps and win back the Sun Petal.

Move on a tile map with solid hedges, water and walls; Action strikes, talks and takes, and when held builds or lights; Dodge rolls through danger with brief invulnerability. Villagers speak lines that follow the quest and hand out unlocks that open new routes: a dash over gaps, a stronger strike that clears brambles and a lantern for a dark area. Collect a fixed set of twigs to rebuild a bridge, light three lamp stones to open a gate, then face a boss with clear tells that is only hurt while dizzy, across three phases.

Hearts and a few tries per run: losing all hearts wilts you back to the last checkpoint with progress kept, running out of tries ends the run. Add a short interactive tutorial, two difficulties, pause with settings, results and saved checkpoints.

The full pack adds the H5 controls, build contract and acceptance checks.

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# Petal Quest — SiGameGen original game brief

Prompt template, not a prebuilt game. Engine direction: Phaser.

## Project brief

Create an original top-down garden adventure as one self-contained browser game in Phaser. The player is a little seedling explorer with two leaves for hair exploring a tiny garden: a sprout village, a clover meadow, a dark thicket and a beetle burrow. Goal: rebuild the bridge, light the thicket's lamps and win back the Sun Petal.

Move on a tile map with solid hedges, water and walls; Action strikes, talks and takes, and when held builds or lights; Dodge rolls through danger with brief invulnerability. Villagers speak lines that follow the quest and hand out unlocks that open new routes: a dash over gaps, a stronger strike that clears brambles and a lantern for a dark area. Collect a fixed set of twigs to rebuild a bridge, light three lamp stones to open a gate, then face a boss with clear tells that is only hurt while dizzy, across three phases.

Hearts and a few tries per run: losing all hearts wilts you back to the last checkpoint with progress kept, running out of tries ends the run. Add a short interactive tutorial, two difficulties, pause with settings, results and saved checkpoints.

## Local build contract

Work in a new isolated project directory through my signed-in local Claude Code subscription. Do not call a separate model/image API, change provider settings, use an API gateway or spend on a paid service. Do not deploy, publish, commit or push without an explicit follow-up instruction. Read applicable repository instructions first.
Build a complete browser game with the full campaign and progression in the project brief. Keep the rules-first stage as development work, then finish the art, game feel and release review before calling the game complete. Include an interactive skippable tutorial, distinct data-driven levels or missions, meaningful progression, fair failure and chapter retry, a final ending, settings and replay. Pin locally installed dependencies; bundle code, engine, fonts and assets into a self-contained HTML. Use original procedural art or supplied assets with permission and keep a licence inventory. Separate deterministic rules, input, renderer, UI, audio and scene data.
SiGameGen embed contract: opaque-origin iframe, no runtime CDN/imports, fetch/XHR/WebSocket, browser storage, popups or page navigation. Keyboard and touch must work without pointer lock on phones. Emit only integer points: parent.postMessage({type:'sigamegen:game-event',version:1,event:'started',score:0}, '*') once per run, and the same schema with event:'game_over' and the final score once at win/loss. Points are not money.
Save campaign checkpoints through the host only. Request {type:'sigamegen:save-request',version:1,gameId:'<game-id>'}; accept {type:'sigamegen:save-state',version:1,gameId,state,storage:'available'|'unavailable'} only from window.parent. Validate your actual save schema, own-key IDs and ranges. Post {type:'sigamegen:save',version:1,gameId,state} with a small plain JSON state (<=8192 UTF-8 bytes); state:null explicitly clears it. Show saved only after {type:'sigamegen:save-status',version:1,gameId,status:'saved'|'cleared'|'unavailable'|'invalid'} from the parent. Failed or missing acknowledgements must stay honest and allow retry; missing storage must not block play. Local progress and scores never authorize money or rewards.
Audio is off until opt-in. Support volume, reduced motion, safe areas, controls at least 48px, portrait/landscape camera fit, pointercancel, pause/restart confirmation, tab hide and return without fast-forward. Tutorial hints must leave the action visible, and primary actions must fit short landscape screens. Stop rendering while paused, hidden and on results; cap particles/enemies and mobile DPR at 1.5. Target <=1.6MB raw / 400KB gzip; measure the actual result, not a promise. Test actual game fairness, legal-input progression, loss/retry and save validation; then review the full campaign, upgrades, ending and replay in the real sandbox at 320x568, 393x852, 852x393 and desktop. Keep inspection bots and debug controls out of release builds. Report passed checks and untested device/audio paths separately.

## Continue in the same Claude Code project

### 1. Core mechanics

Build deterministic fixed-step rules first with greybox tiles for a little seedling explorer with two leaves for hair in a tiny garden: a sprout village, a clover meadow, a dark thicket and a beetle burrow: tile collision, strike arcs with cooldowns, a roll with invulnerability, villagers and quest flags, twig pickups, the hold-to-build bridge, unlocks, lamp stones and a gate, foes with simple AI and a phased boss, checkpoints, hearts and tries, so a player can rebuild the bridge, light the thicket's lamps and win back the Sun Petal. Test that every pickup is reachable and unique, the bridge needs all twigs, a dash never ends inside a gap, the boss only takes damage while dizzy, and an input-only bot wins on every difficulty while idle and careless play lose.

### 2. Art pass

Art pass: draw a little seedling explorer with two leaves for hair, four villagers, aphids, pill-bugs, spore puffs and a big beetle as procedural canvas sprites at 2x with walk, strike, roll, hurt and wind-up poses. Paint a tiny garden: a sprout village, a clover meadow, a dark thicket and a beetle burrow from the tile maps so every solid tile reads as solid: hedges, trees, pots, mushrooms, water and a broken bridge, brambles, lamp stones and a hedge gate, with a palette per area and a darker thicket lit by the lantern. Keep the hero readable on every ground and keep a licence note.

### 3. Game feel

Make the journey to rebuild the bridge, light the thicket's lamps and win back the Sun Petal readable and gentle: a camera that follows softly and frames the hero and the boss together, ground tells for every boss attack, hit-stop and petal bursts, a wilt-and-respawn beat, toasts for unlocks, an Action button that names its job, an objective line, heart and try counters and a boss meter. Add opt-in waltz music that turns minor in the dark and a tutorial whose lessons need a real walk, a talk, a strike and a roll.

### 4. Review & ship

Review a little seedling explorer with two leaves for hair in a tiny garden: a sprout village, a clover meadow, a dark thicket and a beetle burrow as a release candidate at 320x568, 393x852, 852x393, 852x345 and desktop: controls 48px+ in safe areas; the hero, villagers and targets clear of the HUD, lesson card and controls; dialogue above everything with its own Next button, the controls and lesson card hidden while it is open. Clear inputs on blur, pause and hide. Validate saves with own-key ids and quest-order checks, and ship one offline HTML without dev tools and with one started and one game_over per run.

## Acceptance checks

- Every twig is reachable and counted once, the bridge needs all five, and a save edit can't skip the quest order.
- An input-only bot clears the whole quest on both difficulties; idle play and careless fighting on Brave run out of tries.
- The beetle only takes damage while dizzy, each phase adds its tells, and a roll through the stomp ring avoids the hit.
- Practice lessons need real actions and advance in order, emit no session events and save the tutorial as done.

## Research references

These are design references, not included code or assets. The prompts are original SiGameGen briefs. Model attribution in external repositories is creator-reported.

- Sprout Quest · aibengineering: https://github.com/aibengineering/sprout-quest
  Creator documents repeated phone playtests, a Blender-to-sprite pipeline and staged onboarding. Our original complete Phaser adventure has four connected areas, garden quests, three useful unlocks, sundial checkpoints, a three-phase beetle and H5 controls. Its cover uses the normal gameplay camera.

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DONE MEANS PLAYABLE

The checks this game should pass.

Every twig is reachable and counted once, the bridge needs all five, and a save edit can't skip the quest order.
An input-only bot clears the whole quest on both difficulties; idle play and careless fighting on Brave run out of tries.
The beetle only takes damage while dizzy, each phase adds its tells, and a roll through the stomp ring avoids the hit.
Practice lessons need real actions and advance in order, emit no session events and save the tutorial as done.

These are requirements for your future build, not results already verified for this prompt.

RESEARCH, WITH CREDIT

What shaped this playbook.

Original SiGameGen prompts authored in our local Claude Code subscription session. References inform the design; their code, assets and prompts are not bundled. External model attribution is creator-reported.

GitHub

Sprout Quest · aibengineering ↗

Creator documents repeated phone playtests, a Blender-to-sprite pipeline and staged onboarding. Our original complete Phaser adventure has four connected areas, garden quests, three useful unlocks, sundial checkpoints, a three-phase beetle and H5 controls. Its cover uses the normal gameplay camera.