Year: 2026
Tools: Claude Code, ChatGPT, PixelLab, ElevenLabs
Daily driver: Claude Code

Q.T.R.S.

A 404 page you can play. QBOT plays Tetris while you are lost, and on a phone the page becomes a handheld called QBOY.

A 404 with a game on it

When a page is missing, QBOT plays Q.T.R.S. in its place. He is a believable, imperfect player: he thinks, misjudges and clears lines. Click to play and the game is yours.

It reuses the Q.T.R.S. game that also lives in QOS, with the same leaderboard.

Fig. 1: On a phone, the 404 is QBOY.

On a phone it becomes QBOY

On a phone the 404 turns into a handheld. A D-pad and four buttons sit under the screen, and the screen keeps the game's four blues.

I gave Claude Code a render of the handheld I wanted, and we built it in code to match.

A render of the QBOY handheld in light grey plastic, with the game on its screen. — Fig. 2: The target render.

One front render and a turnaround of the handheld: front, left, back and right. — Fig. 3: A front render, then the turnaround.

The target render beside a screenshot of the QBOY built in the browser. — Fig. 4: The render, and the build next to it.

Q's sprite

QBOT's body took a few tries. ChatGPT drew the first sprite sheets in black and white. PixelLab then made a full-color Q from my reference image and gave us all eight turns, and we cut a four-blue version of it for the screen.