Retro Claude Sounds

retro-claude-sounds

**This project will not be actively developed unless there are critical issues.** Development continues at [github.com/sametacar/claudefx](https://github.com/sametacar/claudefx).

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Retro game sounds for Claude Code hooks. Plays nostalgic sound effects on tool calls, submits, and session events.


Installation

git clone https://github.com/sametacar/retro-claude-sounds
cd retro-claude-sounds
./install.sh
source ~/.zshrc
retro-claude-sounds

Available Themes

Theme	Game
ao2	🏰 Age of Empires 2
sc	🚀 StarCraft
wc	🪓 Warcraft
mk	🕺 Mortal Kombat

Switch Themes

Open the interactive menu to switch themes:

retro-claude-sounds

Use `↑↓` to navigate, `Enter` to select, `q` to quit. The active theme is highlighted.

Alternatively, use aliases directly:

sounds-mk    # Mortal Kombat
sounds-sc    # StarCraft
sounds-wc    # Warcraft
sounds-ao2   # Age of Empires 2 (Turkish only)

Add `-full` to include submit sounds (plays on every message you send):

sounds-mk-full
sounds-sc-full
sounds-wc-full
sounds-ao2-full

Themed Spinner Verbs

Each theme replaces Claude Code's default spinner verbs with game-themed phrases. When Claude is thinking, you'll see lines like *"Spawning zerglings"* or *"Summoning ogres"* instead of the defaults.

How It Works

`install.sh` copies files to `~/.claude/` and adds theme aliases to `.zshrc`. Claude Code hooks trigger `play.sh` on the following events:

• sessionstart — when a session begins
• sessionend — when a session ends
• `stop