This is the saddest blog post I ever read. Asking a machine to “make it fun”… I really hope this is the bottom of the barrel, because I am not sure I can take more.
It’s crazy to me that people can get so excited by pumping out slop.
What do they think creativity is?
They don’t care, they just want to make some easy money.
That, or they legitimately hate the indie gamedev scene, because they don’t make edgy flash game inspired stuff.
Like… Newgrounds circa 2002?
Good luck competing with the 120000000 other sloppies lso made by people who were also capable of typing the prompt “can you make me a cool game and also make it really fun”
What is your value proposition? Why on earth would I pay money for this when we live in an age of entertainment abundance?
This is not where it is. It’s when the next person really does have a great idea, and doesn’t need to beg a publisher or spend thousands of hours honing an unrelated skill like blender to build a prototype.
“unrelated skill” except it’s completely related, knowing how to get exactly what you want out of 3d modelling software is a huge part of many games. That being said you don’t need to know any modelling to make a game.
The reason is money, not creativity. If the money spent on tokens doesn’t yield a profit, nobody would be releasing 5 games a week.Edit: didn’t realize that it had already been mentioned. I’ll change to something else to avoid parroting;
You should give it a try and see find out yourself. The issue is not that people vibecode their own games, who cares. Let them enjoy themselves. I believe that the fun part is watching your game come alive and tweaking it to your preference. The issue is rather that a lot of people choose to publish them, which I suspect is because of the potential profit it may have. My question is why aren’t there a website where people can share, or even sell their vibecoded games for those interested? That would benefit all since sharing assets, prompts, MCP, and what not, would lower cost of spent tokens.
Edit 2: A quick search answered my question. Apparently there are multiple websites dedicated to serve this purpose already.
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Now turn this into an actual game - quadruple the size of the playable area, introduce fun game mechanics, add a plot that isn’t too cliche, some twists, a magic system, make it really good
To be fair, the post is about the models’ capabilities, but, that doesn’t prevent people from publishing “games” “made” like this.
You make a fair point. If one is excited about the advances in this technology, I can see how this is development is in fact noteworthy. I do not share the excitement for legions of low-quality generated content.
Make it fun - No mistakes!
be creative, make it look great
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I’m working on a website to help improve things! I’m looking to make a steamdb - like but all about categorizing games on whether they’re tainted by genAI or lovingly hand-crafted.
All those idea-men out there seem to have run out of ideas pretty fast.
That one “battle drones” screenshot looks like it just copied a Warcraft 2 level verbatim.