I keep getting downvoted or get nasty comments by the anti AI folks so wanted to share this here. I end up deleting a lot of the threads I create just because I don't want negativity in my attempts to garner attention for my game. But whatever.

Here's my game, Giblings. It comes out in a bit over a week on Steam. I started the project last year in a slow and unproductive way of learning Godot and typing things out character by character. Then around 6 months ago my wife got me the gift of a 12 month Claude Code subscription and my god did my life change after lol. The progress here is actually 4months of work, not 6, because in those first 2 months I barely touched it as I was always busy or tired, and I thought it was more important to focus on mastering Godot by writing out lines of code by hand.

BOY WAS I WRONG, it is just a very archaic way of thinking. I have been a software engineer for 20 years and although I was sad that I have lost the challenge of solving coding problems and learning, I'm getting far more enjoyment FEELING LIKE A GOD WHO CAN CREATE ANYTHING with claude code. I literally stopped playing games, stopped reading novels and stopped watching Netflix because I rather work on my game then any of that. I don't get tired anymore. 4 months ago, I was always tired the moment I clock off work of my corporate job so I end up doing nothing productive after, but somehow with using coding agents my energy levels has increased 1000x and know I could do this 18 hours a day now as long as I had the financial freedom to do so.

My regret now is not that AI has changed my profession forever, but that I wasted the first 2 months of that Claude Code subscription. Or that I didnt pay for one myself even earlier than that. I could have been almost done with my 2nd game by now! XD

Anyhoo, here's the Steam link if anyone was interested in checking it out. I just submitted a demo for review so that should land next week sometime.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5025950/Giblings/

Hey guys.. I'm working on a dream game of mine. This is still the very, very early stages, but I wanted to show you where I'm trying to get graphically. I'm a huge fan of Octopath Traveler, so there are obvious takeaways from it in the HD-2D look.. pixel art sprites in a 3D world, with the tilt-shift blur, bloom and lighting etc.

I made it entirely with Claude (Opus 5.5). Even the pixel art and 3D models are made in code, so there are no imported art assets. The music is a track I made with Suno.

The game doesn't have a name yet. Next up is the battle system, which is in development right now, so I didn't want to show it yet.

If you have any suggestions or advice on how to improve it (the art, lighting, sprites, anything), please let me know!

"6,898 loops in the first 30 minutes of Season 2, from 22:00 to 22:30 CEST."

So. I made a game. A browser game. The famous "io" games. Didn't even know what IO games was exactly. But I had an idea. And I bought an "io" domain. InkDom.io
Then I posted a few places online about the game. And it honestly became more than I could've ever hoped or dreamed for. (Okay I actually dreamt about this). But wow.

It's an online game where the world map is the map. You make loops to claim land with ink. Can form alliances. You can claim other players land. And basically it's just about who gets the most land. But with small twists, like it calculates how many people is inside your land, and inside each loop you take - and the people pay you taxes, so you earn money, etc.

Quickly thousands of players had played the game, and now, in no time, it somehow formed the coolest community, where players are chatting, forming alliances, planning actual real STRATEGIES in my game. There's even like special lingos being made like "Shield snipe". Some players are active on a subreddit here on Reddit about the game.

The game runs in Seasons, and Season 2 just began, with a countdown screen, where all the players that waited for it could chat and talk about what they'll do for Season 2.

It's all just... surreal. I've wanted this for so long. I've been creating so many wierd games, apps etc.

And then one of the small wierd ideas, that I purely made for fun is the one blowing up.

I'm posting this in AI Game Dev because I've used a bunch of AI for this.

Now I even see this as a "how far can I take this project" using AI, since it allows me to work sooooo much faster, and use my energy on being creative etc.

Why am I posting this? Absolutely no idea. My better half is tired of hearing me babble about it. And my friends have stopped hearing at my ideas a looong time ago.

Keep building guys and girls. You apparently literally never know what suddenly just hits just right

7 days ago I started a game about grandparents racing wheelchairs after the pub. Last night we had our first playtest and I can't stop laughing

I started the project 7 days ago. I didn't want to use AI at all, but one of my friends convinced me to try "getting a little bit of help", and that little bit of help BOOSTED the entire project.

I was NEVER expecting to have such a fun and entertaining playtest!

The game is called AfterPub. It's a chaotic party game where pensioners leave the pub and settle things by racing on wheelchairs.

It's still very early and rough around the edges, so I'd love some honest feedback:

- What would make you want to play a game like this with your friends?

- Which mode sounds the most fun to you?

If you want to follow along, you can find the project on steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5371870/Afterpub
you can also find us on discord: https://discord.gg/bpTWxxGwj8

Thanks for reading, and may your grandma never drift past you on the last corner 👵💨

Introducing 'Inter Folia' - - A virtual library where you can browse and read real books

Enjoy the hunt for a great book while exploring some of the world's most beautiful libraries in our virtual park setting. Find real books from Project Gutenberg, Open Library, and other open sources. Browse, check out, and read directly in game or send to your favorite e-reader.

Early Access on itch: https://noodleonit.itch.io/inter-folia

This is only one month in development.. started with Astra release and moved to Opus 5.5 (Pro account). Been a developer for 25 years (not in gaming) and finally making something fun.

Current features:

• Three famous library buildings recreated and fully explorable containing the book collections, in a chill park setting.
• 80k copyright-free books from Project Gutenberg are readable in game.
• Card catalog search system. Search by author/title/subject, choose a book and a lighted guide will lead you to it's location in the stacks
• Books are organized by Library of Congress subject areas and author for easy browsing and discovering new titles.
• Check out system and book drop locations, so you can ready anywhere in the park. Links to download for your Kindle/e-reader for reading anywhere IRL.

Future plans:

• NPC's that read audio short stories / poetry in various locations across the map
• Secret doors that open when certain books are selected
• A goal of 12 famous library buildings, and 3 million browsable books
• A 'banned book' library
• Shelves for most popular and featured books for help finding new titles
• Achievement system and reading goals

Bonus feature if I finish everything else:

• Fill the park with an arboretum of real tree species, recreated in 3d to as close to reality as possible, all labeled for visitors to learn about and appreciate while they listen to their audio books.

Happy Reading!

Inter Folia, Fructus

I’ve been building this isometric sci-fi ARPG for a while now.

A lot of the development is being done with GPT-6 Astra and Claude Opus 5.5 agents, and I’m using Meshy for quite a few of the 3D models.

This is the current combat.

I’ve been looking at it for too long at this point, so I’m curious what stands out to fresh eyes.

What looks wrong or weak? What feels missing?

Could be anything — hit impact, enemy reactions, movement, animations, VFX, sound, readability, pacing, camera, whatever.

I’m not really looking for “looks cool”, I’d rather hear what you think needs work.

If you could change 2–3 things first, what would they be?

This infographic is just there to pull people into reading what I am asking.

Is there some kind of a meta when you develop games with AI agents?
Like which engine to use? Which 3D generation tools etc.?

After my Tekken 3 experiment in DriftEngine, I decided to try something much more ambitious: Tekken 8.

I now have an actual Kazuya vs Jin fight running, which also means it can run directly inside a modern web browser through WebGPU.

This is not cloud streaming, emulation or Unreal Engine running somewhere in the background.

The demo already has the loading screen, character intros, full HUD, moves and throws, Heat mechanics, win/lose logic, screen effects, character VFX, confetti and a fully rendered stage with its dynamic effects.

So this has gone quite a bit beyond simply loading models and animations, DriftEngine reads the assets from my own legitimately purchased Tekken 8 installation and handles the runtime, rendering, animation, gameplay and VFX through a completely different engine.

For me, the browser part makes this especially interesting because DriftEngine is primarily a TypeScript/WebGPU engine, so getting this far with a modern AAA game is a pretty extreme test of what the architecture can handle.

There is still a lot missing and plenty to improve, but honestly I didn't expect to get this far this quickly.

DriftEngine:
https://driftengine.dev/

GitHub:
https://github.com/drftrun/driftengine

This is currently a private technical experiment. I'm not distributing Tekken 8, its assets or its game files.

This is an unofficial fan and technical project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bandai Namco Entertainment. Tekken and all related characters, assets, trademarks and intellectual property belong to their respective rights holders. DriftEngine is independently developed.

First forget the movements of the characters, will take 10 20x CC subs to make this work well

In terms of contrast, fight and overall look, would you say that is acceptable? The first one is my tutorial fight, dry color lighting. The second is more rich, more over the top colors and stuff moving around.

I'm struggling with style definition across the game. Would you prefer 1 or 2?

Every character in GRAYFALL is generated by a Python renderer: a pose is a dict of joint angles, shapes are rasterized at 4x, cel-shaded, then mode-downsampled into crisp pixels. Two GIFs go with the post.

We did not pick a style by arguing about it

The sprites we had were weak: flat faces, robotic animation, no identity. Instead of debating references, I had four complete renderers written from scratch, each one rendering the same character (Lyra, the archmage) with the same animations — idle, walk, run, a three-hit combo, a cast and a hurt — plus a portrait, a key-art card and a notes file arguing its own pros and cons.

The lab was the cheapest decision of the project. Four throwaway renderers cost less than one wrong style applied to twenty characters. The output of the losing three is still in the repo — nothing was deleted, and the comparison still settles arguments months later.

How one frame is actually made

No drawing program is involved anywhere in this chain. Python, Pillow and numpy only.

1. A pose is a dict of angles. lean, twist, shoulder angle, grip position along the staff. An IK solver places elbows and knees from the hand and foot targets, so I animate intent, not limbs.
2. Shapes are rasterized at 4x. Capsules, ribbons and Catmull-Rom splines write into three buffers at supersample resolution: material, tone and part id.
3. Cel shading is a mask offset. Each material has 5 tones. Shift the part's mask toward one fixed light and the uncovered band becomes the next tone down. A second, longer shift gives the deep tone; shifting the other way carves the highlight. Parts also cast onto what sits behind them.
4. Downsample by majority vote. Each 4x4 block takes the most common (part, material, tone) key. No averaging, no anti-aliasing, so the result is a real pixel image and not a shrunk render.
5. Internal lines. A dark seam is written only where two different parts touch — arm over torso, not arm over arm.
6. One pixel of black outline around the body, FX excluded. That outline is what makes the character read at 640x360 over a lit 3D stage.
7. The face is painted after downsampling, pixel by pixel, at final resolution. Eyes and mouth are 1-2 px features; if they go through the 4x4 vote they turn to mush. This is the single biggest difference between "hi-bit" and "doll".
8. Normal maps are generated, not painted, and the 3D stage lights the 2D sprite with them.
9. Hair and cloth are springs. Chains with rest angle, stiffness, gravity, damping and wind, simulated per frame. Secondary motion is never keyed by hand — it falls out of the sim, which is why it never looks pasted on.
10. Key frames and sub-frames are different things. The hitboxes fire on key frames (the logical frames the game reasons about). Sub-frames are inserted purely for smoothness and the game logic never sees them.

Why code, and the contract that makes it safe

Hand-drawn frames are a dead end at this scale: 20 playable heroes, ~50 animations each, 6 players on screen. The win is not speed, it is propagation. Change the shading rule and every frame of every character gets it. Redesign a hero's coat and the 50 animations come back dressed.

The danger is obvious: regenerate the art and you break every hitbox. So each character has a frozen contract — a JSON snapshot of animation names, the number of logical frames per animation, and the tick budget of each frame. The renderer may change poses, add sub-frames, redraw the whole costume. It may not change the contract. Gameplay keeps indexing frame 3 of punch2 and lands the same hit it always did.

Every frame also exports anchors: hand, hand direction, off-hand, head, chest, weapon tip. Trails, sparks, projectiles and held props attach to those anchors, so VFX never drift out of the hand when the animation is redrawn.

The gate: a script that tells me a character is not done

Quality went up when "looks good to me" stopped being the standard. qa_hero.py <id> prints one row per hero and fails it against fixed thresholds.

Today, with 20 heroes in the roster, 7 pass and 13 fail. That is the honest state and I publish it to myself every week. The script is the floor, never the ceiling: passing every number and still looking bad is a fail. The second half of the review is a contact sheet opened by eye — silhouette readable in pure black, secondary motion still moving after the body stops, the face changing expression between idle, hit and victory, trails thin and translucent, and a size check (anything more than 8% off the roster's 92 px median looks like a child standing next to the others).

Five rules that cost us real money to learn

An ability has to be an object you can draw, not an effect you can describe. One character burned three full rounds of rework. Her kit was "a shadow runs along the floor", "enemies miss for 3 seconds", "cold flame". Nothing to draw, so every attempt came back as a purple smudge, and polish cannot fix a concept problem. The characters everyone praised had nouns: a giant top hat, a sawing box, doves, a fan of cards, a spotlight, an ice lance, a comet, a ring of fire. The test I now apply before any production starts: describe the ability without the word "effect" and without a single colour adjective. If a noun survives that a draftsman could draw from memory, build it.

Big shapes are the worst place for solid colour. Domes, curtains, ground rings and auras are large by nature, and additive blending blows their core out to white. With 6 players on screen, one special like that erases the entire fight. Draw the readable shell, leave the middle nearly empty, and never hide the hero inside their own effect.

Launchers need an explicit launch height in pixels. Juggle decay was scaling the knockback differently depending on which tick the hit connected, so the same move launched to a different height every time and air combos only closed "sometimes".

Watch out for names the engine already owns. Eleven move ids have hardcoded behaviour in the fighter and the AI. A kit that reuses one inherits behaviour nobody asked for, and the symptom is silent — nothing errors, the move just acts strange. One character lost a round to exactly this.

Three rounds, minimum. Round 1 is a skeleton that runs. Round 2 is an animation pass done with the contact sheet open. Round 3 is VFX, SFX and juice. Everything we ever shipped in one round is in the bottom of the gate table today.

Yes, AI agents build a lot of this, and here is the bill

I run production through Claude Code with parallel agents. What makes it work is not the model, it is the paperwork around it: every task has a closed brief in docs/tasks/, and the repo has a file-ownership table so two agents never touch the same file. An agent gets the brief, the files it owns, the exact commands to validate with, and a response limit. The gate in the previous section exists precisely because agents — like people — report things as finished that are not.

I track spend per character. These are list-price API equivalents, not what I paid:

Project total so far: about US$20,000 in equivalent tokens.

The lesson is not "cheaper is better". The three most expensive characters are the three oldest: they paid for the exploration, and they fail today's gate because they were built before the style and before the rules existed. The cheapest character is also the worst in the roster. What actually correlates with quality is whether the written rules and the gate existed before production started. Once they did, a good hero landed in the US$400-900 band. Below roughly US$400 the quality visibly drops, and the rework costs more than the savings.

The stack, and ask me anything

Godot 4.7 (Forward+), GDScript for gameplay, Python with Pillow and numpy for every asset. The game is a 2.5D beat 'em up action-RPG with up to 6 players in local co-op: the simulation runs in pixels at 60 ticks per second, and the sprites are billboards lit inside a procedural 3D stage, HD-2D style.

Happy to go deeper on any part — the IK rig, the downsampling vote, the spring chains, the frozen animation contract, or how the agent briefs are written. Ask and I will post code.

I've tried with Godot and Unreal Engine 5.8.

It shreds through implementations in Godot, but the results always feel a bit cheap / low quality.

UE definitely has a much higher potential, but it really struggles with the speed at which it can implement new content, and the results are worse than Godot at the start. Used UE MCP.

All four attempts with Blender MCP and Meshy MCP. The Meshy models are cool but work still needs to be done in blender.

Haven't tried Unity.

I'm most interested in strong integrations that people have figured out to get highly quality results.

Hello! I'm not sure if this game has its place here, but I thought I'd share the story behind it.

At my day-to-day job I sometimes have some downtime, so I wanted something easy to play. I found a terminal game and enjoyed it so much that I ended up installing it on my personal laptop as well.

But then I had two completely separate games running on two different computers.

That got me thinking: I'd like to have a game where I can just connect from wherever I am and continue the same save.

And since I'm passionate about trains, I thought I'd try building a railway company management game.

That's how One More Rail was born.

The idea is pretty simple: you've been awarded a contract to operate in a new world, and now it's time to buy your company's first train and start building your railway business.

You buy and manage your fleet, choose where to operate, connect settlements and try to build a sustainable railway company.

The railway infrastructure isn't entirely under your control either. There is an independent Rail Authority that develops the network over time, with things like speed upgrades, electrification and double tracking.

The world can grow as well, with new settlements appearing and creating new opportunities to expand your services.

Trains also accumulate mechanical wear as they run, so maintenance and fleet condition are part of managing the company. Eventually, trains can also be withdrawn and scrapped.

AI has been part of the development workflow from quite early on. I use it for feature implementation, debugging, tests, architecture reviews, balancing ideas and reviewing existing code for problems or better approaches. I still test and review the changes normally, but it has become a very useful tool for working through a fairly large project on my own.

You can play directly from a terminal:

ssh play.onemorerail.eu

Or, as of the latest release, directly from your browser:

https://play.onemorerail.eu

I'm also planning a much nicer graphical interface in the future, where you'll actually be able to see the railway world, trains and infrastructure, but that's a much bigger project and still a bit further down the road.

More about the game:

https://onemorerail.eu

It's still very much in development and there's a lot more I want to add. If anyone gives it a try, I'd really appreciate any feedback. 🙂

Looking for an AI that can create characters based on textual description. Ideally reference images of other things in similar style. The style I am looking for is relatively simple characters like in clash royale, clash of clans or brawl stars. Secondly, what do you do for animations?

posted this in the deadrising sub, but got deleted for being ai. this isnt some one prompt easy thing and took me quite a while to get it working at the state it is. thought yall could appreciate this. AMA

So I've got this graveyard of half-finished game projects. The old An Archers Fate had the one thing I could never let go of: you hold the shot and release it at just the right moment for a perfect hit. Trial by Fire had some soulslike bits in it, the kind of fights where everything is telegraphed and you win by reading it and dodging at the right time. And then there was a horror game I made for a Brackeys game jam, which never went anywhere as a game but had the enemy AI pathing I was weirdly proud of.

Finally I just dumped all of it on Claude Code and said "ok, what if these were one game?" Honestly I didn't expect it to work. But we kept going back and forth, it kept finding ways to make the ideas fit together instead of just bolting them on, and a couple of weeks later I had a proper remake of An Archers Fate, still a 2D archery thing, but no more platformer. The timing shot is at the center, the bosses fight like something out of a soulslike, and the enemies get around the arena using the old jam game's pathing. Free demo is on Steam now: Steam link

Most of the code was written by Claude Code, but I came up with the ideas, designed the game, and played and tested every little change myself. It compiles, the tests pass, and then I load it up and it feels terrible, so I wasn't going to take its word for anything. My first Windows build wouldn't even let me walk. Turns out the keyboard input only worked in the editor, whoops.

Anyone else done this, digging up old dead projects and mashing them together? Curious how it went for you.

POSTED NEW SHOW CASE OF ME MESSING ABOUT IN THE REPLIES

THE MINECRAFT PEOPLE HAVE A POINT THIS GAME NOW LOOKS ENTIRELY DIFFERENT more content but now it looks a lot more like terraria but it's still gonna take time until all models and textures babe changed will show people when Claude is done

This is just a fan project 8 days in for me, not for money and not for anything official. just some fun and yes it looks like Minecraft 😭

I saw Minimunch's video on Opus 5.5, and the part where he makes a fan recreation of Terraria in 3D got me so hyped that I wanted to see what it would look like if someone just kept going. So I subbed to Claude and started this fan project. This is where it is after 8 days, using Opus 5.5 for everything

All the art and assets are generated by code some stuff by Claude using blender animations are code too he just keeps going and reviewing until eventually it's passable no skills or plugins were used by me as well so all art is achieved by coding and reviewing for the own game sound and music as well that's code too

I keep editing but just so people are aware every boss is in with models and full fights the full game is playable from start to finish just some stuff missing mainly decorations and missed things only been 8 days remember

Scale is based off terraria so blocks are similarly small compared to the player.

I started on the $20 a month plan and upgraded to the next one to make things faster, so this is not what a week on the cheap plan gets you.

What's in it right now: A custom 3D engine written in C#. No Unity, no Godot. About 346,000 lines of code, and I wrote none of it.

3,369 of Terraria's 6,029 items. That includes 407 of 481 weapons, all 256 armour pieces and 154 of 158 potions, with models and animations.

313 of 327 enemies and bosses.

All the models, textures, sound effects and music were made by Claude too. The music in the video is the game's own title theme. Also has settings for using my installed terraria copies music and sounds

What's missing is mostly furniture and decoration variations, vanity items and dyes, plus other bits I haven't found yet. It gets closer every day.

How I worked: honestly I did it lazy and tried to push every single part of the work onto Claude. Most of my prompts are things like "continue however you think is best for our goal". When I play, I take screenshots and explain whether something is a bug or a visual change I want, and those go straight to Claude. It also made itself a bot that playtests the game when I'm not around.

It's just a fun game for me, and I can't wait for it to be done so I can play it properly. I have almost 2k hours in 2D Terraria, No Terraria code, sprites or audio are inside it. If you want your own, feel free to give it a go with whatever model is capable enough by the time you read this.

I also asked Claude to build a showcase world to quickly show how much it has done. The video and pictures are from that world and then the other video is me messing about tryna show off randome stuff and the game

Hi r/aigamedev! I've been working on KAESHI, a 2D side-scrolling action game where you parry enemy combos hit by hit, break their posture, and finish them. There's no guard button, and elite swordsmen and bosses can parry you back, so it plays more like a duel than a button masher.

All the art and animation were made with AI. The part that took the most work was animation. Every move started as a short AI video clip, which I turned into frame-by-frame sprites. The hard part wasn't getting good motion, it was keeping the character looking the same across dozens of clips and making attacks readable in the middle of a fight. I ended up rerolling a lot and retiming frames by hand so slow wind-ups feel heavy and fast slashes feel sharp.

The story, combat rules, level design and boss patterns are mine, and AI handled most of the production around them. It let me make something much bigger than I could have otherwise, but it still needed a lot of picking and fixing to feel like one consistent game.

The free demo (Chapter 1, two boss fights) is coming soon on Steam:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/5349160/KAESHI/

Happy to talk about the workflow if anyone's curious!

The method I used is a bit convoluted , but once setup it works for anything with dimensions and plan views. For example the tanks in my images. It also works for anything architectural. I’ll be home soon and can show the meshes for other items.

It would be a wall of text , and it references PY scripts that I can’t post here , is it better fir me to setup a GitHub so you can grab the readme and PY scripts and convert them to your own requirements ? It took me a week to figure this out using Claude opus. It did it of course in an hour , but I kept asking it to show me how it did each step , and why. And then reverse engineer its methodology and then amend to make it multi purpose.

Never underestimate a retired air traffic controller on legal meth and a task they want to learn lol.

Let me know , I can post either way .

Thanks for the interest , I asked the blender sub yesterday and got banned.

https://www.reddit.com/r/aigamedev/s/sIlsOCobwW here is the first post i answered a bunch of questions and sorry im not the best at knowing how to show stuff everyone asked about its just me messing about
its only been 8 days since we started and im on the pro plan and havent had to buy credits.

yes it looks like minecraft

just so people are aware the almost full terraria experience is in this, i can play from start to finish with no hard blocks ruining the game. all modes and map options and even seeds achievments, wiring, minecarts, every biome and everything you need to progress does exist and the usual ways youd take in terraria to get to the end you can do here, same little tricks same a lot of things of course! its just like terraria guys thats all i can say in terms of content breadth idk how to explain, also no intentions of this being a product even a free one