Astra 6 Reforged build passes 94 Node tests

The article is a first-person build log comparing two AI-made versions of the same browser clicker game. The original was made with ChatGPT 5 and some Gemini 3, and the article notes the exact division of work between those two is unknown, so individual features cannot be credited to one or the other. The newer version, Reforged, was built with Astra 6 through Hermes Agent, which provided tools for reading files, editing code, running tests and opening the game in a browser.

The most visible change is that the room exists as a 3D scene written in Three.js, with first-person exploration added during development at the author's request. Spells, a target range and a slot activity were folded into the same Stardust economy, and the code was split into separate modules rather than continuing to grow the original single HTML file. Sound moved from recorded clips to Web Audio code that reacts to game events. The author supplied direction and played the results, so the comparison is explicitly not a matched-prompt benchmark: Astra 6 had the original to work from, a larger brief, different tools and repeated feedback, and there are no comparable time, token or cost records for the original.

The correction section is where the build log becomes a cautionary tale. A balance problem — rebirth being skippable by saving enough currency — also exposed a gap in the automated strategies, which kept buying upgrades and missed that route. Astra 6 then changed the boss-health curve and reran the strategies, after which 48 of 48 tested no-jackpot first-run strategies failed to finish, while tested prestige continuations still completed. A separate save-import bug let an imported boss have an extremely short attack interval, freezing combat; the fix restricted accepted intervals to between four and five seconds and added regression tests. For readers weighing agent-built software, the outcome likely hinges on how much of the verification was written and corrected with human playtesting, rather than on the raw test counts alone.