00:03[music] >> Ark Survival Evolved was one of my favorite games of all time
00:13There was just something about being dropped into a massive island, running around and trying to survive while dinosaurs were literally everywhere
00:19Now, knocking them out, taming them, and eventually being able to ride them
00:23And I've always wanted to see if I could recreate some of that experience inside of Unreal Engine
00:27But instead of spending months trying to build it, I want to try something a little different
00:30Because today we're going to see how much of an Ark-style dinosaur survival game we can actually build in 24 hours using Claude Opus 5.5
00:37And for my Ark clone, I want to have wild dinosaurs roaming around the world, different species with their own behaviors, weapons, and combat, a full taming system, and of course the ability to actually mount and ride the dinosaurs we tame
00:49And by the end of these 24 hours, I actually want this to feel like a playable dinosaur survival game
00:54So, we got a lot to build and not a lot of time to do it
00:56Also, if you guys are new here to the channel, make sure that you subscribe because I have a lot more crazy content like this planned
01:01With that being said, let's go ahead and get right into the video
01:03The first thing I did was to generate our image for our survival character, and I uploaded that into Tripo AI and turned that into a 3D model
01:10Then, I rigged the character and imported it into Unreal Engine 5
01:14I also created a separate first-person arms mesh because obviously we're going to need that for our first-person gameplay
01:19Then next, I created a couple of different weapons and tools like a bow, a pickaxe, and a stone hatchet
01:26But just having these 3D models isn't enough
01:28We're going to also need animations
01:30So, I brought the first-person arms and the weapons into Blender, and then I had Claude Opus 5.5 create the animations for me, including all the animations for the hatchet and the bow
01:40So, over here we have the hatchet idle, have the running animation
01:43We also have the bow shooting and the reload arrow animation
01:46And once those animations were finished, I imported everything into Unreal Engine 5
01:51But now we needed probably the most important part of an Ark-style game, which is the dinosaurs
01:55So, I generated images for seven different dinosaurs, a triceratops, ankylosaurus, stegosaurus, parasaur, T-Rex, raptor, and a pteranodon
02:04Obviously, there's way more dinosaurs in ARK, but I think seven gives us a pretty good variety of what we're trying to build here
02:09After that, I took each of those images and turned them into 3D models using Tripo and brought every single model into Blender
02:16And this is where things started to get pretty insane, because instead of manually rigging and animating all seven dinosaurs, I had Claude do it instead
02:24For every dinosaur, Claude created a complete skeleton, rigged the entire model, and then made around five or six unique animations
02:29We had the idle animations, walking, running, attacks, even knockout animations, knockout idles, and a few other animations depending on the dinosaur
02:38And we're actually going to need a lot of these later on when we build things like the taming system, but just the fact that AI can create these dinosaur models, rig them, create all the animations is just absolutely insane
02:48Like normally, this entire process itself, you'd have to do all manually
02:52You'd have to create the skeletons, skin the model, paint the weights, and just manually animate and keyframe every single animation
02:58And Claude is just doing all of it
03:00Like look at the detail in this raptor animation
03:03Uh somehow it was just able to get like the raptor head movement, like the tail
03:07And then also look at like the pteranodon over here
03:09We have the flying, like the takeoff
03:10It just looks so realistic, and I didn't even give it a reference video
03:14It just figured this all out somehow
03:15It's just actually insane
03:17Now, once all these seven dinosaurs were finished, I imported everything into Unreal Engine 5, and this is basically our entire asset library for the game
03:24We got the character, you know, we have the weapons and tools, all the animations
03:27And of course, we have all seven of the dinosaurs and all their different animations
03:32So, I mean, just look how how many animations there are
03:33Claude literally animated everything that you're seeing here
03:37As for the environment though, I did decide to save myself a little bit of time
03:40I grabbed this tropical jungle pack from the Unreal Engine Marketplace that I actually got for free a few years ago
03:47Now, I could have spent a bunch of time generating custom trees, rocks, plants, or an entire jungle environment, but I didn't really feel like doing all of that
03:54And honestly, the jungle pack already looks pretty good
03:56So, at this point, we finally had everything that we needed
04:00We had the character, the weapons, the dinosaurs, the animations, and our environment
04:05So, we could actually start building the entire game
04:08So, instead of slowly building every system at one time, I actually wanted to see just how much Claude could actually do on its own
04:13So, I gave Claude Opus 5.5 one massive prompt explaining the entire game that I wanted it to build, and I told it to get to work
04:20And Claude started cooking
04:22I mean, it began organizing all the assets, creating all the different blueprints, setting up the dinosaurs, and basically assembling the entire game
04:30And honestly, this might have been the craziest part of the entire experiment, because I was basically sitting there just watching an AI build and playtest an entire Unreal Engine game in real time
04:39It created the blueprints for all seven dinosaurs, [music] set up the wandering behavior, created the different types of behaviors like the passive, neutral, and aggressive dinos
04:48It also added attacking, damage, spawning, all the logic that makes all these dinosaurs exist in the world
04:54And it was even testing out taming and riding the dinosaurs right there on my PC
04:57As for the map, Claude just duplicated the demo map that came with the tropical jungle pack
05:04So, technically, that is kind of cheating, but you can't really blame him for that
05:08And after around an hour of work and roughly 500,000 tokens, Claude finally finished the first iteration of the game
05:14And this first iteration definitely wasn't perfect
05:16We had a lot of bugs like the hatchet wasn't attached to the player's hand correctly, the bow just wasn't even attached at all, and the UI was extremely basic and pretty ugly
05:26And there were a bunch of other smaller issues that needed to be cleaned up, but the actual foundation of the game was there
05:31So, instead of manually fixing everything myself, I gave Claude another prompt
05:35This time, I told it to fix all the problems and complete a polish pass on the game
05:38I had it improve the UI, add camera shake, set up footstep VFX, add blood effects, add ragdolls to the dinosaur deaths, and clean up a bunch of smaller details
05:47And about another hour later, it was finished
05:51So, after generating all the assets, rigging and animating seven different dinosaurs, and letting Claude build and polish the actual gameplay, here's what we actually ended [music] up with
06:00Okay, so here we are
06:00Let's go ahead and hit play here
06:01So, here we are in the game
06:04Let me just make this full screen
06:05So, we have our pickaxe weapon right over here
06:09We can actually swap between the different weapons by pressing one, two
06:12It's for our hatchet
06:15You can see our hit animation isn't the greatest, but we also have a bow over here, which we can shoot
06:19Yeah, just check out the environment
06:21This is the tropical jungle, but I added the ultra dynamic sky
06:26So, we have sort of like this rainy environment
06:28Let's see if we can actually find some of the different dinosaurs around here
06:31So, we can actually tame this guy
06:33Let's try and shoot this guy
06:35It's going to actually try and attack us and chase us
06:38Oh, he's doing some damage over here
06:40Let me just knock him out
06:40So, there's another one over there, too
06:45But, I think this guy is taming, so it's unconscious taming 23 seconds
06:47So, now it just finished taming, so now you can see we can actually ride it
06:51So, we press E
06:52We're now riding it, so I can press spacebar
06:55And I can actually fly
06:57This is insane
06:57So, check this out
06:57I'm actually flying the pteranodon around the map
07:02And it has its own little name
07:05We even have the fly idle, the hover animation
07:08This is just absolutely insane
07:08But, let's see if we can actually find some other different dinosaurs around here
07:12I know this there's different spawn locations for different dinosaurs
07:15I think there's a parasaur, so let's go ahead and just land over here
07:22And you can see we can actually land and get off, dismount off our dinosaur
07:26[music] Over here, we have the parasaur
07:26So, check this out
07:28We can run over here
07:31And we can actually tame this guy, and he will actually run away
07:33Look at the particle effects, though
07:34We added different particle effects
07:36So, we can go and shoot him a couple of different times
07:39Oh, [ __ ] What I feel the the ground something Holy [ __ ] What the [ __ ] There's a T-Rex right there
07:47What the Holy Oh my god, we just died
07:49That is crazy
07:51Holy [ __ ] we just spawned
07:51We had to respawn over here
07:54So, I added like camera shake
07:56The whole ground was just shaking because the T-Rex was coming at us
08:00I think our dinosaur Well, our parasaur actually tamed
08:02So, that's kind of crazy
08:04Let's go ahead and see if we can run and see if we can get over there
08:08Okay, I think it's down over here
08:08I don't know if the Rex is still around this area
08:14Let's go ahead and see if we can get down here
08:17Oh, sh- Oh, [ __ ] It is right there
08:19Holy [ __ ] I need to get on this real quick
08:23Oh, my god
08:25That is crazy, guys
08:27The Rex is like actually trying to chase us
08:30Wait, we can actually kind of kite it like an arc
08:31We can basically kite it down into this area
08:33Maybe we can actually try and tame it
08:35Let's try and tame this thing
08:38So, if I get off over here, we might just be able to camp up here and just try and shoot it
08:43I don't know how many arrows it's going to take
08:45It looks at the like the torpor is actually going down
08:48I would do this all the time in Ark, you know, we'd have like a dino kite it over into like a little crack and then shoot it from above and tame it
08:56This brings back so many memories
08:59Well, it looks like we just knocked it out over there
09:00Let's go ahead and just fly down and see if we can see the progress
09:07See if we can even land here
09:07We can land down here
09:10So, check this out
09:10It's unconscious
09:12We're actually taming the T-Rex right now, which is crazy
09:15Oh, [ __ ] There's a raptor over there
09:17Guys, that is a raptor
09:17We even set up raptors in this game
09:20So, we have to be super careful
09:24Okay, so we just tamed this guy
09:24Look at the Rex
09:27We can mount it
09:29And holy [ __ ] you can see this is absolutely insane
09:31We have the walking animation here
09:36Let's actually go over to raptors
09:36I think they should aggro on to us
09:38Yeah, so we can bite them
09:41This is crazy
09:41We're actually biting and attacking them
09:46I think they should be able to attack us, too, though, so we got to be careful
09:50And look, we just killed it
09:50And it even has the ragdoll effect over there
09:55Looks like there's a couple more Raptors over there
09:57These guys stand absolutely no chance to us
09:59Look at the body, the ragdoll
10:02Holy [ __ ] So, yeah, there's like a pack of Raptors on me right now
10:06So, I got to kill these guys
10:08Yeah, look at that
10:08We just killed the Raptors over there
10:11And now we can actually just ride our T-Rex
10:14Oh, [ __ ] there's another Rex
10:16No way, there's another Rex on us
10:19That's crazy
10:21This one is actually kind of chasing us
10:22It might actually kill our bird over here
10:24Oh, [ __ ] we're kind of boxed in this
10:26We actually might die right here
10:28I don't know
10:28Let's see if we can actually just run away
10:29Our health is actually getting pretty low
10:31You know, one thing I forgot to add is we need to have it like have a little blood overlay
10:35I remember one of the features in Ark is that when your dino gets like super low health Yeah, you can see we just killed it
10:40It gets super bloody
10:42But, yeah, you can see we just killed it
10:43Look at the ragdoll on that thing
10:45Holy [ __ ] Look at the ragdoll
10:47[laughter] Oh my god, it's like a ball
10:49It's like a orb
10:52It says ride T-Rex
10:56The [ __ ] No shot I can ride this thing, no
10:56Okay, I don't know if we can climb out of here
11:01Yeah, just look at the Rex, guys
11:05This guy is low HP, though
11:07I don't know if we can actually regen our health in here
11:08Let's see if we can find our bird over here and tame some of the other dinos
11:12Cuz there's a bunch of other dinos that we can tame, so let's go ahead and fly up here
11:16I didn't show you guys a Parasaur, so here's our Parasaur
11:18If we ride this thing, uh check out the animation
11:22We have the running animation over here
11:25This thing looks pretty cool, too
11:25See, can we actually cross this bridge? That would be kind of cool if we could just cross over
11:30Oh, we can cross the bridge
11:32Look at this
11:34We're crossing this a log to get over to the other side over here
11:39Okay, let's see if we can find some other dinos
11:40We need to tame a trike as well
11:42I haven't actually tested out the trike
11:44So, maybe let's go ahead and dismount and try and tame this guy over here
11:49Oh [ __ ] it's charged
11:49It's actually so fast
11:51What the hell? Holy [ __ ] I didn't expect it to be this fast at chasing us
11:59Oh my god, I died immediately
11:59That's crazy
12:01Holy [ __ ] the difficulty on the trike is crazy
12:04So, yeah, some of these dinos I haven't even tested at all
12:09So, like this is the first time
12:09I think we can cross over this bridge
12:14I think we it's over here
12:14Yeah, over here you can see the torpor is still going down
12:19Maybe we Oh [ __ ] we may should have waited
12:24Okay, I think we knocked it out
12:24Holy [ __ ] One more shot and I would have been done for
12:27Yeah, so look, you can see it's taming right now
12:29It's unconscious
12:30So, yeah, it should tame up pretty quickly
12:32It's crazy that they have like different types of movement speeds
12:35I didn't expect Claude to just like come up with a different dinosaur stats
12:39So, yeah, I just finished taming over here
12:41I can actually ride it
12:43But, yeah, look at this, guys
12:43We can ride the Triceratops
12:47We even have I think an attack animation
12:49So, you can see we can attack with it
12:52So, this is a basic like swipe with its head there
12:54But, yeah, I love the particle effects like the footsteps
12:58This is insane
12:58Like the only thing it's really missing is the saddles
13:02And honestly, I did I cut the saddles because I just didn't have like the time for it
13:06And also, I was having some trouble like generating proper images for it
13:10But, you know, with this proper saddle, this would look so good
13:15>> [music] >> But, just look at the graphics, guys
13:17This is crazy
13:19Like we're just riding on top of the trike
13:20We're about to find some other dinos
13:22So, we can actually run Oh [ __ ] there's some raptors down here
13:25I think this is the area where the Raptors spawn down here by the waterfalls
13:30Oh, [ __ ] They actually kind of They actually run super fast
13:33What the hell? Holy [ __ ] And the T-Rex? Another T-Rex? Holy [ __ ] guys
13:44So, I think we found where the Anky spawn
13:46So, they spawn up on like this top sort of like this mountain almost
13:51We actually need to swap to stone arrows to tranq arrows down there so we can shoot them
13:57Holy [ __ ] he does so much damage
14:00And he actually runs so fast
14:04Oh, [ __ ] Hey, so I'm going to go ahead and just tame this guy
14:08I think one more shot and yeah, so we just knocked him out
14:11So, we got to tame I think just the Anky, the Stego, and maybe the Raptor
14:17Okay, so it just tamed so we can actually ride him
14:20And look at that
14:21So, we have the run animations
14:21We should also have the attack
14:24So, I think if we just attack like this, we have the tail swing
14:29So, yeah
14:29We have our basic ride tail swing animation
14:31That's pretty much the Ankylosaurus
14:33There's not really a whole ton to this dino
14:35You'd use it usually to farm in Ark
14:37Goal now is to tame a Stego
14:40So, we're going to go ahead and see if we can find one
14:41Oh, [ __ ] This is the Raptor area
14:43Actually, maybe we can tame one over here
14:45So, let's just try and shoot this guy over here
14:47I think he's glitched
14:49He's not able to actually attack us
14:52Let's just cheat the system
14:52So, it looks like we just knocked him out
14:55So, he's actually taming, but I have no idea how I'm going to get down there
14:58Okay, I think he's going to finish taming
14:59Okay, we can ride now
15:01Oh, [ __ ] He's Now we're pinned
15:05I don't know if we can jump
15:07Probably try and jump out of here
15:07Oh, [ __ ] We might be cooked here
15:09Wait, they actually run so fast though
15:11Look at that
15:13We have like a pack of Raptors just running through the the river over here
15:17Wait, this is actually pretty crazy
15:18Look Look this
15:21They're just like chasing after me
15:22Maybe we can try to attack
15:22I don't know if Oh [ __ ] he does actually dismount us and we die
15:26I don't think I can actually fight these guys off
15:28This is crazy
15:30Hey, so here's our Stego
15:30So let's go ahead and actually try and tame this guy
15:33Oh, he's wedged right in here
15:35Let's just try and knock this guy out real quick
15:37I think one more arrow shot right here will do the trick
15:41We do have a couple of Trikes around here
15:43So this is the Trike spawn
15:43Oh [ __ ] now we can actually ride it
15:46So press E
15:49We have to get unstuck over here
15:49But look at that, guys
15:50That is crazy
15:50We have the our Stego
15:54You know, these things were crazy in Ark
15:55You could like swing with your tail and it harvest like 15 different bushes
16:00Yeah, look at this
16:00You can just walk through the jungle here
16:03The rain is just coming down
16:05Look at the graphics though
16:07This is just crazy
16:09Like the lighting and everything
16:11If I get off and dismount, I just look at the detail in this thing
16:15What's crazy, this entire thing was just generated by AI
16:18Like all the animations, like the textures, pretty much everything other than the environment
16:25And it's crazy how it was able to just figure out all the different controls, interaction, all the inputs
16:31Anyways, that's going to be it for this video
16:33So I hope you guys enjoyed
16:34Make sure you subscribe and let me know down in the comments down below what type of game I should make next
16:39That's pretty much it for this video
16:39So I'll see you guys in the next one.