Show HN: Factory DS, A Factorio-Like Game for the Nintendo DShttps://ronangaillard.github.io/posts/factory-ds-a-factory-game-for-the-nintendo-ds
Hi HN, I'm Ronan. I love the Nintendo DS but ran out of games that kept me hooked, so I tried porting the kind of game I play today: a factory game in the spirit of Factorio, on a 67 MHz ARM9 with 4 MB of RAM. I had never written code for the DS, and I built it with Claude Code. I wrote the specs, the design and the balancing, and Claude wrote most of the C. The post goes through how that worked, and through the technical parts I found the most fun: - a 2048x2048 world that is never stored: terrain is computed from (x, y), only the player's changes are kept in a hash table - night done by cha…