Beyond detailed prompting and starting from an existing game/codebase, one thing I did differently this time that I think made a difference (in addition to the raw horsepower of Astra): I used Codex/GPT Image 2 model to create a MASSIVE library of image refs to imagine what this could look like

I had image refs created of virtually everything: all guns in first person POV, on the different maps, and also side profiles of every gun and with the different sights (like aperture sight, iron sight, sniper scope)

This became a clear visual reference & bar for Astra to hillclimb against via @mattshumer_ Gauntlet Loop

You can see all the visual references here: http://astralwar.io/refs