---
name: opus-5-5-game-driftwing-endless-glider-flight
description: "Use when you want a game like KyleBuildsAI's \"DRIFTWING: endless glider flight\". Runs their exact Claude Opus 5.5 prompt."
source: https://github.com/KyleBuildsAI/driftwing
prompt_source: https://github.com/KyleBuildsAI/driftwing#about-this-project
author: "KyleBuildsAI"
model: claude-opus-5-5
---

# DRIFTWING: endless glider flight

A free prompt from the Omo "Opus 5.5 game prompts" collection.

- Made by KyleBuildsAI and shared on GitHub: https://github.com/KyleBuildsAI/driftwing
- Prompt quoted word for word from: https://github.com/KyleBuildsAI/driftwing#about-this-project
- Play the original: https://kylebuildsai.github.io/driftwing/
- Model as stated by the creator: Claude Opus 5.5. Omo has not re-run it, so your result will differ.

## How to use

1. Open Claude Code (or a Claude chat for a single-file HTML game) running Claude Opus 5.5.
2. Paste the prompt below.
3. Change the theme, characters or rules if you want your own version.
4. Play it, then ask for fixes in plain words.

## Prompt

```text
Build a complete, self-contained browser game in a SINGLE index.html file. No build step, no external assets, libraries only via CDN importmap. Use three.js (latest) with WebGPURenderer and automatic WebGL fallback.
THE GAME: "DRIFTWING", an ambient infinite-flight exploration game. You pilot a low-poly glider over an endless procedural world. No fail state, no fuel, no enemies. The fantasy: a golden-hour flight that never has to end, with an AI copilot riding shotgun.
FLIGHT MODEL (arcade with soul):
- Mouse steers pitch and roll (WASD/arrows also work), scroll or W/S for throttle, space for a gentle boost on cooldown
- Banking turns: rolling into a turn induces natural yaw; speed bleeds in climbs and builds in dives
- Soft stall: below minimum speed the nose eases down, never a tumble
- Chase cam with smooth lag that banks with the plane, FOV stretches with speed, subtle shake at max velocity
- Touch support: virtual joystick plus throttle slider
- Double-tap A or D triggers a smooth canned barrel roll
INFINITE TERRAIN (the engineering core):
- Chunked heightmap terrain from seeded simplex noise, multiple octaves, fully deterministic from a seed shown in the UI so worlds are shareable
- Biomes blended by temperature/moisture noise: snow peaks, pine valleys, dunes, archipelago ocean, flower meadows; vertex-colored, flat-shaded low-poly
- Chunk generation in a Web Worker with transferable buffers, ring LOD (high detail near, low far), pooled and recycled chunk meshes, zero frame hitches while streaming
- Stitched LOD edges or skirts so there are never visible cracks
- Procedural landmarks every few km: stone arches, monolith circles, a lighthouse on a lone island, drifting hot air balloons; discoveries log to a journal
LIVING ATMOSPHERE:
- Day/night cycle (6 min loop, settable): sun, moon, star field, dawn/dusk gradients, aurora over snow biomes at night
- Sky: gradient dome with a sun disc and cheap radial god rays near the horizon; fog color always matches the sky
- Clouds: instanced soft puffs in a slow-drifting layer casting faint shadow blobs
- Water: animated vertex waves, sun glint streak, foam band at shorelines
- Boid bird flocks that scatter when you dive through them
- Wingtip contrails when banking hard, wind streak lines at speed
THE COPILOT (critical architecture):
- class Copilot { async respond(flightState, transcript) -> { speech, action } }
- Default brain = local keyword grammar via the Web Speech API: "where am I", "find mountains / ocean / desert", "set waypoint", "autopilot on/off", "make it night / dawn", "barrel roll", "ring course"
- Executable actions: place a glowing waypoint beacon, autopilot to a heading, change time of day, spawn a ring course, describe current biome and altitude
- RemoteCopilot: POSTs { flightState, transcript } to a configurable endpoint (default http://localhost:3000/copilot), expects { speech, action } back, falls back to the local grammar after an 800ms timeout
- Copilot answers via speechSynthesis plus a subtitle line in the glass UI; mic toggle with a pulsing listening indicator; every command also reachable by keyboard/UI so voice is never required
GENTLE OBJECTIVES (optional, never nagging):
- Ring courses on request: fly-through rings with chime feedback, time and best streak
- Discovery journal: biomes visited, landmarks found, distance flown, max altitude
- Photo mode: P pauses, frees the camera, hides UI, adds letterbox and a screenshot button
VISUAL QUALITY BAR (this is the entire point):
- Cohesive 6-color palette per biome, flat shading, soft sun shadows
- Post stack: subtle bloom, vignette, warm color grade, light film grain
- Golden-hour default start: long shadows, warm fog, the screenshot moment inside the first 5 seconds
- Minimal glass UI: altitude, speed, compass strip, waypoint arrow, world seed, mic toggle; auto-hides after 3 seconds of stillness
PERFORMANCE:
- 60fps target on desktop: frustum culling, instancing for trees/rocks/clouds, worker-side terrain, auto-degrade view distance before frame drops
- Guard against: LOD cracks, falling through unloaded chunks (clamp altitude to terrain height plus epsilon), NaN attitude, worker backlog, tab-blur dt spikes
POLISH RULES:
- Every listed system must actually function, zero placeholders
- Opens already airborne at golden hour with a 1-second fade, no menu wall, no console errors
```

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