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Welcome, Dean.
This is your corner of the internet.

Operator: Marlon "Dean" Martinez  •  Lab built by Grandpa  •  Co-pilot: an AI

Everything you see at dean.clemit.net is a real website that real people anywhere in the world can visit. You're going to build things here — games, pages, tools, jokes, whatever you dream up — by teaming up with an AI. You bring the ideas. The AI helps write the code. Grandpa helps you ship it.

Tap each mission below when you finish it. Let's go. 🚀

Big or small, silly or serious — you can build ANYTHING YOU CAN THINK OF.

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▸ The Build Loop

Every single thing you make follows the same six steps. Learn this loop and you can build anything.

1
Dream up ONE thing
Keep it small so you can finish it. Ideas: a page about your favorite game, a dice roller, a "reasons my cat is the best" list, a countdown to your birthday, a color-changing button. Say it out loud in one sentence.
tap when done
2
Ask the AI to build it
Tell the AI exactly what you want, like: Make me a single HTML file with a button that rolls a dice from 1 to 6 and shows the number big. The magic words are "single HTML file" — that keeps it simple. Ask questions if you don't get it!
tap when done
3
Save it into your projects folder
The AI gives you code. Save it as a file like dice.html inside the public/projects/ folder of the lab. Each project is its own file. Give it a clear name.
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4
Show Grandpa 👀
Before anything goes live, Grandpa takes a look with you. This is how we keep the lab safe and squash bugs together. This step is never skipped — it's the #1 rule.
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5
Ship it 🛰️
Grandpa pushes the button (a git push). Cloudflare — the company that hosts your site — grabs your new file and puts it online everywhere in about 30 seconds. That's called deploying.
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6
See it LIVE and share it
Open dean.clemit.net/projects/dice.html on any phone or computer. You built that. Send the link to your family. Then go back to step 1 with a new idea. 🔁
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▸ Rules of the Lab

🛡️ Read these. They keep you safe and keep the lab yours.

  • Grandpa checks before anything goes live. Always. No exceptions.
  • Never type real secrets into the AI or into a webpage — no passwords, no full name + address, no phone numbers, no card numbers. Not yours, not anyone's.
  • If you don't understand a piece of code, ask before you use it. "What does this line do?" is a pro question.
  • Be kind. Anything you put online, imagine your whole family reading it. If it's mean, don't ship it.
  • Weird pop-up asking to download something or "give access"? Stop and get Grandpa. Real building never needs that.
  • The AI can be wrong. It's a super-smart helper, not a boss. You're the builder — you decide.

👨‍🔧 For Grandpa (the boring grown-up part)

Dean's projects drop into public/projects/. Review the file, then git add . && git commit -m "dean: new project" && git push — Cloudflare Workers Builds redeploys automatically. No secrets ever live in these files. You're the review + push gate; that's the whole guardrail.

▸ Level Up

You start with training wheels. As you get stronger, you unlock more. Grandpa flips the switch when you're ready.

START HERELevel 1 — Idea Machine. You dream it and describe it to the AI. Grandpa saves & ships. Focus on cool ideas.
LOCKEDLevel 2 — File Handler. You save your own .html files into the projects folder yourself.
LOCKEDLevel 3 — Co-Pilot. You read the code and ask the AI to change things: colors, text, buttons, sounds.
LOCKEDLevel 4 — Shipper. With Grandpa watching, you push the button and deploy your own work.

▸ Game Maker Mode 🎮

You want to make games? Then let's build one. Your mission: build a jumper game. There's an example already in your lab — open it, poke at it, break it, rebuild it. But that's just one idea. Jumper, dodger, racer, maze, boss fight — you can build anything you can think of.

🕹️  OPEN THE EXAMPLE JUMPER GAME

🏆 Grandpa's Challenge: The Stuck Coin

Go play it. You'll grab 6 coins pretty fast... but one coin is stuck somewhere you just can't reach. That's on purpose. 😏

Your mission: change the game's code so you CAN get it — and win. There is no single right answer. Could you jump higher? Run faster? Fly? Move a platform, or add a brand-new one? Make yourself smaller? It's your game — you decide how to beat it.

Open first-game.html, find the part that says "DEAN'S GAME — edit anything below," change one number, save, and refresh. Watch what happens. Keep going till that last coin is yours. Then tell Grandpa how you cracked it. 🔓

The game's built with a free engine called KAPLAY that makes 2D games inside a single HTML file — the AI knows it well. To build your own game from scratch, ask the AI something like:

Using the KAPLAY game library, make me a single HTML file:
a 2D game where I move a character with the arrow keys
and dodge falling rocks. Score goes up the longer I survive.
Put the whole KAPLAY library INSIDE the file so it works offline.

Then change everything — the character, the colors, the rules, the goal. Platformer, dodger, top-down maze, whatever's in your head. Run the Build Loop, ship it, send Grandpa the link. 🚀

▸ Your First Quest — Pick One

Don't overthink it. Pick one of these three, copy it, and paste it to the AI. Or ignore all three and build something only you would think of — that's even better. 😎

◈ Option 1 — A jumper game 🕹️

Using the KAPLAY game library, make me a single HTML file:
a 2D jumper game where I move with the arrow keys, jump
with Space across some platforms, and collect coins.

◈ Option 2 — A dodge game ☄️

Using the KAPLAY game library, make me a single HTML file:
a game where I move left and right to dodge rocks that fall
from the top. My score goes up the longer I stay alive.

◈ Option 3 — A surprise machine ✨

Make me a single HTML file with a dark background and a big
button that says "SURPRISE ME". Each click shows a different
random compliment in giant glowing text.

Whichever you pick — run the Build Loop, show Grandpa, and ship it. The first time your thing loads at dean.clemit.net... welcome to the club, builder. 🛠️