Sami’s Story: A Playable Autobiography
Made with:
Grok Bot (AI design & dev partner)
I went to the Grok event hackathon in Toronto, where the theme was one sentence: “Build something to tell your story.” We had until 8 PM that same day. Instead of another scrolling timeline, I turned my story into a retro platformer, where my timeline is the progress bar, every level is a chapter of my life, and a small mini-game after each level acts out what that chapter felt like. I came up with the idea, wrote the story and directed the look, and Grok Bot was my design and dev partner, turning each round of my feedback into the next playable build. The first version was playable in under an hour, and by the end it had eleven worlds, a Sami who grows up as you play, and touch controls so it works on a phone too.