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?

My entire graphical style in all my game creation so far has been to lean into vector style neon arcade graphics, taking inspiration from the ‘golden era’ of arcade classics. This is because I had a huge soft spot for vector graphics from playing those games as a kid, there was always such magic looking at games like Asteroids, Tempest, Battlezone and then sometime later the absolutely mind blowing (for the time) Star Wars. But sprites dominated pretty quickly so there really weren’t that many arcade games made with vector graphics, sprite based became the overwhelming majority after the first few years. That’s why I feel so drawn to create games in that style, as I want to make games that feel like they were a lost classic but then add modern bells and whistles in terms of sound, music, online leaderboards and much more advanced particle systems etc. But of course it’s very niche. It’s also helpful that in terms of implementing vector art it’s something that the AI can do pretty comfortably even from a while back when I first started. Developing the latest in my vector series of games for Game Jam is something I’m excited about, but sitting back and thinking about it, I’m thinking that the style is very niche and may not resonate with a lot of people who will see it as too basic or not see the beauty in the neon glow that I do. So I’m considering maybe switching to sprites, but at this point that would basically involve using sprites from free online libraries as I don’t have the time to be creating them from scratch (even using AI to help I know it’s going to need a big chunk of time to make the. To the standard I would like). So generic sprites from a library sprinkled with my own hand (AI) created backdrops? Will it look good enough? Is it a direction I should pursue even though my heart is in a completely different style. Now that I’m starting to take it a little more seriously and I’m looking at all store publishing is having such an ok school aesthetic simply going to be too much of a hurdle to get anyone to look twice?

Centipede! Could AI build this arcade classic? Watch Claude generate a playable Centipede game from one single prompt! The AI: https://claude.ai/ The Prompt: Create a simplified web-based arcade game similar to Centipede using HTML Canvas and JavaScript. The player controls a small cannon at the bottom of the screen, capable of moving left and right and firing single shots upwards. A multi-segmented 'centipede' enemy moves horizontally across the screen, descending one step when it hits the screen edge. Implement basic collision detection: player shots destroy centipede segments. When a segment is destroyed, it can leave behind a 'mushroom' obstacle. The player cannot move through mushrooms. Use simple shapes (rectangles, circles) for all game elements. Display a basic score. Focus on core mechanics of player movement, shooting, centipede movement, and collisions.

Background: I've been making games and apps with Unity for 16+ years. I had someone ask a question about how to use Claude Code to make a game and after writing a short novel, I thought, "hey, this could be helpful to others" -- but I'll let y'all be the judge. (note: a lot of this would also apply to making an app or any piece of software with Claude Code) Someone asked me about making something based off an existing game, but also how would he attract programmers to help him / work for him. Below is my response: --- To start... you need Unity (and some basic familiarity with it) and the Unity MCP and Claude Code (the CLI) -- and claude opus. Opus is extremely good at letting you drop the whole vision at once (including screenshots) and tell it what you're wanting to do. In this case, make a game like XYZ. And it'll tell you where to start and how to progress from there. The one thing that AI cannot do is make a game that's fun. Not intentionally, anyway. It's pretty much always going to need tweaks. In your case, wanting to make a game with big monster trucks... The key to ANY game is usually going to be one core piece or mechanic. I would tackle that hardest piece first. You need to get those vehicles rolling and feeling good to play. AI can build something, and it can build something you can tweak, but it cannot "make a fun game" any more than AI can "make a song that moves me" -- it's too subjective to the person interacting. Talk to Claude Opus, tell it the grand plans, ask it where to start, ask it to build a tech spec for the v0.1 -- again, I'd absolutely start with the car. Tell it you're going to use claude code and the unity mcp. It can build a markdown file very specifically for claude code, along with instructions. Then go to a directory with that file in it (probably needs to be an existing but empty Unity project if you're going to use Unity), go into claude's CLI and reference that file with @ saying something like, "I want you to plan out and then build to the specification in the @car_game.md file" (and the @ will bring up a list of files, fyi)