Claude Haiku given a mind inside Black & White (2001)
A DLL injected into the running game lets Claude Haiku drive the creature's thoughts, hunger and tiredness, built with Claude Code.
The full story
The maker loved Black & White as a child and injected Claude into the 2001 game. A DLL (bw_claude_mind.dll) is injected into the running game process with an injector tool, and the API calls Haiku to act as the creature's mind.
So far hunger and tiredness are linked to the model, with a live thoughts overlay on screen; when the hunger threshold was set very low the creature whined constantly until fed. The creature otherwise still follows its scripted behaviour, and movement and animation control are not working yet.
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From a short post by the maker, so the details are as they tell them.
- Reddit: I've injected Claude into the creature of Black & White (2001)
The maker's post on r/ClaudeAI.
The poster has deleted it, but the original is still readable (it can take a few seconds to load): archived copy of Reddit: I've injected Claude into the creature of Black & White (2001) (opens in a new tab)