Summary
Nick Saraev spends around $1,000 testing what Claude Fable 5.2 can build, with a focus on browser-based games and animations and on what they really cost. For each project he reports the direct API price and the share of a $100 or $200 Claude plan it consumes, so viewers can plan their own usage limits.
The examples include Under the Glass, a pinball-themed first-person shooter that cost $33.18 in API usage (about 5.3% of a $100 plan), the Cork Gallery carnival shooter at $11.39, and a ring-toss box fort at roughly $33. A light-refraction crystal tumbler cost about $35 and shows how baked-in lighting can flicker until it settles.
Saraev shares the techniques behind the results. Asking for baked lighting, path tracing, ray tracing and reflections produces soft, high-fidelity visuals that still run in a browser, and sharing the games as Claude artifacts makes them easy to pass around. For animation, he recommends a toon-shaded style to avoid the uncanny valley, and he has Fable write the generation prompt itself before feeding it back in. The prompts are available via a link in the description.
📺 Source: Nick Saraev · Published November 11, 2026
🏷️ Format: Hands On Build
