Simon Willison highlights Panache, a French fork of the Battle Drones game
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Simon WillisonXSimon Willison shares Panache, a French fork of Battle DronesAISimon Willison highlights Panache, a French fork of the Battle Drones game with new models, music, and a cinematic intro video. Willison shares a comparison of the original and new Goliath models. The fork, built with Claude Code, is a French Belle Époque RTS featuring dirigibles, steam tractors, and Gargantua, a walking steam fortress.
- Simon WillisonBlogPanache, a French steampunk fork of Simon Willison's Battle Drones game, reskins it for 1900s France
AISimon Willison released Battle Drones under an Apache 2.0 License, and a French-language fork called Panache has already appeared. The fork reskins the real-time strategy game for mobile and browsers as a steampunk Belle Époque France set around 1900, with airships, steam-powered Fardiers, armored Creusot ships and a walking fortress called Gargantua. It adds an animated intro and a French twist to the music, while gameplay changes so far are mostly aesthetic.