Astra builds a Viking longship browser game for $29.48 in API costs
The author asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to create a single-file Three.js and WebGL Viking longship game with custom water shaders, PBR materials and oar splashes, at an estimated API cost of about $29.48.
29.48$ in API costs for this?! Astra, are you serious? 🤯 Asked ChatGPT-6 Astra to create a Viking longship journey. Now I’m steering through cliffs, forests, and waterfalls right in my browser It runs on Three.js + WebGL, all in one HTML file. The water has a custom shader with reflections, refraction, and depth-based transparency. Wood and rocks use PBR textures with normal and roughness maps The oars are my favorite detail: they dip into the water, leaving foam, ripples, and splashes where they actually make contact. You can steer, change speed, and switch the lighting $29.48 is the estimated API cost of the entire development process, including revisions, with caching enabled I came here to test a model. Somehow ended up sailing away 👀