Part two. A rhino rips robots apart and wears the parts. We built it in about three days with a pile of AI tools, to see how far someone who isn't a game developer can take a real game, and share it with friends.
Start with part one: Rhinohed →Rhinohed started as a what-if: could we make a real game with AI tools? Part one said yes, just about: three short stages and a rhino in a red bandana. Part two asks a bigger question. If you want to play a game that doesn't exist, can you just make it, and send it to your friends?
The robots in the game are the joke. They're one cheerful, helpful, passive-aggressive AI that never stops talking. You've met it.
So the game and this story share a plot. The machines are annoying. You take them apart. Then you wear their parts and keep going.
Three stages, four kinds of robot, one charge move. An old prototype, fixed up and playable in your browser. Everything here is built on him.
Play part one →Every gameplay shot is the real game, recorded frame by frame with its own sounds. His voice and the selfie shots are AI. Five cuts in two days:
V1 · 45s
V3 · 84s
V4 · 76s
V5 · 54s
V6 · 78sEach tool did one job well and one thing badly. We treated them like parts ripped off a robot: useful, a bit broken, and only good in the right hands.
An image model
Every rhino frame, robot, splat of gore, stone tablet and background is painted. About 420 pieces made it into the game.
Hits back: spelled the logo RHINOHE2, and invents extra bits nobody asked for.
ElevenLabs
40 sound effects with 3 takes each, 12 songs built on one riff, and his voice: 46 things he says while you play.
Hits back: everything arrives at full volume. A clink as loud as an explosion.
Higgsfield (Kling, Seedance)
Seven living backgrounds that sway behind the levels, and the selfie shots where he talks to camera.
Hits back: loops jump at the seam, and the first selfie came back stiff and centred.
Claude Code
About 12,000 lines of game: physics, the gore, 8 levels, phone controls, his voice rules, the trailer recorder, playtest tracking.
Hits back: the bugs you only find by playing, like a key that stays held down.
About 420 painted pieces made it into the game, counted from its files.
Part one had three stages and one move. Part two is a different game: two worlds, bosses, weapons you steal, a mess that stays on the floor, and a rhino who talks back. Every panel below is the real game.
Hold the phone upright and the bottom half becomes a controller. Turn it sideways and the buttons float over the game. No download, no login.
Part onePart twoThe same level, part one against part two. Drag to compare.
The ancient theme. Hearts, the goal shrine and the level picker are carvings of a rhino who comes to save the jungle from the machines.
Gore: what robots break into
A shield bot, walking, blocking, bashing
The clown, the Refinery's bossThe tools make things fast, and they make things up. Most of the real work was catching it: playing, listening, looking closely, and deciding what's right.
The first painted logo looked great and was spelled wrong. Now the letters are real type, and only the gory II is painted.
We designed voices for him and played them side by side. Which one is Rhinohed?
Exhibit C, the trailer: in one cut he slid backwards across the screen. The shot was set up over a pit; he fell, got rescued and the camera whipped. Now every frame of every shot is tracked and checked before it's used.
Exhibit D, the mix: every sound arrived at full volume. We measured each one and sorted them into the big moments, his own moves, and the little background clinks.
We traced all of him into vectors. The colours went flat and bits went missing. We went back to the paintings, cleaned out the extra bits the AI had invented, and painted an eight-frame walk at his real height.
We shared it with 9 testers behind a password. The game quietly records where people get hit, die and quit, with no names. The first report was humbling.
of tries at level one ended in a win.2 wins in 44 tries. 25 sessions on Macs, iPhones, Android phones and Windows.
Deaths along Jungle Entry, start to shrine, in 500-pixel slices. Most never got past the first pack of drones.
Median frames per second. The line is 60, smooth. Windows players got 16.
"Works pretty good with a keyboard. Might consider making the beginning levels even easier, to get people hooked before making it harder."A tester
Rhinohed II runs in the browser on a laptop or a phone, with eight levels, two bosses and a rhino who won't stop talking. It's with a small group of testers while we make the start friendlier. Part one is open to everyone.
you work with the people doing the work, from the first question to the last detail. tell us what you're making and where it's stuck.