Motion Design · Aug 1, 2026
New Amsterdam, One-Shotted by Opus 5
New Amsterdam, One-Shotted by Opus 5 by dvdhutch, credited to Claude Opus 5. Watch the Motion Design video and visit the original Reddit post.
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Welcome to New Amsterdam, traveler! It is the year 1660 and you've just stepped foot on to the southern tip of what would become Manhattan. [Play a demo here!](https://play.vevey.ai/game/god0M-OHmk) I came across [this post](https://x.com/levelsio/status/2081339304752640137) by X/levelsio building New Amsterdam w/ Opus 5, so decided to take a stab at it. I'm big history buff for this period, so it was fun to see how accurate it turned out! I fed Opus one of my fav books on the period ([The Island at the Center of the World](https://www.amazon.com/Island-Center-World-Manhattan-Forgotten/dp/1400078679)) and instructed it to go wild on the [New Netherland Archive](https://www.archives.gov/nhprc/projects/catalog/new-netherland-archive) (\~7k pages of original records from the New Netherland Colony). This provided the map + setting. Next, I provided a sub-agent loop ([original prompt here](https://github.com/mshumer/Claude-of-Duty/blob/main/prompt.md), borrowed from…
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