Let's go back to the early days of the internet, when creative Flash websites were all the rage. You know, the time before everything started looking like a Bootstrap website, a Wordpress template, or a Medium theme. Websites used to surprise you. They had intros and soundtracks and little worlds to poke around in. Somewhere along the way we traded all of that for uniformity.
I think we can have the fun back now. Thanks to the power of AI, developers today are able to build cooler experiences in less time than has ever been possible before.
Consider this. In about a week, I built the 2D version of the devSteve.com website that you're reading right now. I built the 3D version of the site, a walkable gallery with its own streets and shops. And I built a handful of other 3D environments to show just how customizable each experience can be. None of this would have been possible without Claude Code. Claude did most of the heavy lifting, I just steered the ship, so to speak.
I also handled things like Git commits, test runs, QA, production deployments, and providing a general theme description of each 3D environment, but Claude Code pretty much did the rest.
Recent additions
The custom experiences now live at SceneXP (opens in a new tab), and the collection has grown to fifteen scenes and counting. Each one gets its own world, its own characters, and its own social preview image. Here are four of the newest. Click any card to step inside (each opens at scenexp.com in a new tab).
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X's and O's (opens at scenexp.com in a new tab)
A football game where you call the offensive plays, then throw or run for points.
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Fractal Garden (opens at scenexp.com in a new tab)
Plant and tend one-of-a-kind fractal trees and watch them change with the seasons.
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High Water (opens at scenexp.com in a new tab)
A ninety-second water and weather study as a rising surf slowly overwhelms the shore.
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Earth Defense (opens at scenexp.com in a new tab)
Fly an orbital ship and defend Earth from a dozen Martian raiders.
Some of the scenes at SceneXP are games, some are quiet experiments, and many were built as tributes to small businesses and to people I love. That range is kind of the whole point. The same approach that can put you on a football field can also showcase a storefront or preserve a memory of a bike trail or a family vacation.
The web used to be a place you explored, not just a place you scrolled. I think it can be that place again, and it turns out the door back is open to anyone willing to build with these new tools. If you'd like a custom 3D experience of your own, for your business or for someone you love, I'd be happy to hear from you.