If you're new, don't waste a week comparing tools. 😱 Pick the path that gets you to a tiny playable game fastest. 🚀 Short practical breakdown: - Never coded → ChatGPT / Claude + tiny browser game - Designer / creative → sketch the screen, action, fail condition - Rusty dev → OpenCode / Claude Code - Mobile goal → web first, mobile later - Steam goal → web first, Steam later - Money goal → prototype first, monetise later The Long Boring 🥱 Explanation: Never coded before? - Start with ChatGPT or Claude and make a tiny browser game. - Clicker. Reaction game. Memory game. Dodge game. Something stupidly small. - Not Unity. Not multiplayer. Not your dream RPG. Designer / creative? - Start with the screen. - What does the player do? - How do they lose? - Sketch that first, then get AI to turn it into a tiny playable loop. Rusty developer? - Use OpenCode or Claude Code. - You probably know enough to get agentic. Just don’t point it at a giant repo on day one. 🤣 - Start with one small web game or one mechanic. Want mobile eventually? - Still go web first. - Build the smallest browser version. If people actually play it, then think about mobile. Want Steam eventually? - Still go web first. - Steam is a great goal, but it’s a rough place to find out your core loop isn’t fun. - Test the tiny browser version first. Then scale it up. Want to make money? - Prototype first. Monetise later. - First question is: can someone understand and enjoy the game in 10 seconds (or 3)? My default advice: If you don’t know where to start, do Mini Quest 1 and ship one tiny browser game before picking a “serious” tool.

We have just hit 500 members 🤯 ! To celebrate, I’m doing a game giveaway 🎉 If a free member wins: you get 1 game 🎮 If a Premium member wins: you get 2 games 🥰🥰🥰 The Games (You get to pick 1 (or 2)) - Resident Evil Village - SteamWorld Build - The Lord of the Rings: Return to Moria - Assassin's Creed Valhalla - Crysis 3 Remastered - Rogue Waters - Nordhold - Nice Day for Fishing (These are PC games, you will need STEAM) THIS IS HOW YOU ENTER THE GIVEAWAY👇👇👇 Drop your game idea in the comments. Funniest / weirdest / most playable idea wins!

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I’ve created a Telegram game with 100k players, that generates thousands of dollars in revenue. With AI. If I were to coach you, what would you want me to help you with?

I've been experimenting with a different AI game development workflow and I'm curious if anyone else works this way. Instead of building an ugly prototype first and worrying about the UI later, I start by generating the actual game screens. I create a PRD, then use ChatGPT, Figma AI, or similar tools to generate screen concepts and even prompts for the content that should appear on each screen. Because everything is based on the PRD, the screens already reflect the intended gameplay and progression. Next, I have my coding AI recreate those screens as a working prototype using mock data. At this stage I'm not focused on databases, APIs, progression systems, or backend logic. I'm only testing whether the screens feel right, whether the user flow makes sense, and whether the game is actually fun to navigate. Once I'm happy with the experience, I simply replace the mock data with real systems and connect everything together. I'm currently doing this for a diablo-like idle-game. Below are a few of the AI-generated screen concepts, followed by the current prototype, which is still in the mock-data phase. 👉 https://idle-hero-loot.lovable.app/game So far I've found that this approach helps me spot UX and gameplay issues much earlier than when I start with functionality first. Has anyone else tried a screen-first workflow like this? Do you design realistic screens before implementation, or do you still prefer building the systems first and polishing the UI later? Would love to hear how others approach AI-assisted game development.