Building Bubble 2048: A Technical Deep Dive

When I participated in Global Game Jam 2025 with the theme “Bubble,” I wanted to create something familiar yet innovative. The result? Bubble 2048 – a twist on the classic 2048 puzzle game where tiles don’t just slide… they bubble up.

But here’s the thing: I didn’t finish it during the jam last year. Life got in the way, and the project sat incomplete for nearly a year. Then, just before Global Game Jam 2026 kicked off, I discovered Claude Code – and everything changed. What had been a frustrating tangle of animation bugs and timing issues became manageable. With Claude’s help debugging the animation system and refining the game logic, I finally completed what I’d started at GGJ 2025, just in time to approach this year’s jam with renewed confidence.

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