I Turned a Tokyo Drift Scene Into a Game With AI

I grew up on these films, so I wanted to drive that yard myself. Not a game "inspired by" the Tokyo Drift drift-lesson scene, but the same yard, metre for metre. I gave the job to Claude Opus 5.5 and a small team of AI agents: one builder, a critic that tries to fail everything, and a tester. The first thing they found out: it was never Tokyo. The yard is in an old shipyard on Terminal Island, Port of Los Angeles – confirmed with a port survey photo from 2000 that nobody had linked to the film. In this video: • The location detective: one website, a 2000 survey photo, a 2006 aerial – and the sun giving away the time of day • From public maps and a LiDAR scan to a 1:1 yard in Godot (74 of 74 buildings within 25 cm) • Our game laid over the film, frame by frame • A car built from blueprints… that I stopped, and the Tripo model that arrived one metre long • Drift physics, a camera jitter hunt, and an engine sound rebuilt from single firing pulses (PSOLA) • Ten rounds of me playing, complaining, and the AI fixing • Why it took ~42 hours, and what it cost: ~$566 at API list prices Chapters: 0:00 Intro 1:21 The setup: one orchestrator, three roles 2:04 Where was it really filmed? 3:35 From map data to a 3D yard 5:17 The car 7:32 Into the game engine 8:05 Drift physics 9:17 Ten rounds with me 12:00 The result 12:39 Why it took so long, and the cost 13:29 What I learned Let me know in the comments: do you like this format, and would you play this game? Tools: Claude Opus 5.5 (orchestrator, builder, critic, QA) · Blender (Python scripts) · Godot 4.7 · Tripo (car body) · GPT-6 Astra (image references, HUD design) Fan project – not affiliated with or endorsed by Universal Pictures or Mitsubishi Motors. The game is not released or distributed. Film frames © Universal Pictures, shown briefly for comparison. Sources & credits: Port of Los Angeles, Architectural Survey (Jones & Stokes, 2000) · Imagery: LARIAC, © Los Angeles County · NAIP / USDA · USGS 3DEP LiDAR · © OpenStreetMap contributors · LA County Building Outlines 2020 · Natural Earth · Sound effects: Pixabay Music: "Dismantled Toys" by The Grey Room / Density & Time · "Maple" by Dyalla (YouTube Audio Library) If you want to follow what we build next, subscribe.