retro-claude-sounds

This project will not be actively developed unless there are critical issues. Development continues at github.com/sametacar/claudefx.

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 — when Claude finishes a response
• question — when Claude asks a question
• submit — when a message is sent (only in -full variants)

Requirements

• macOS
• Claude Code