Hey I'm Mark, I'm working on getting more familiar with using AI to create. My experience with coding is SOME, but old (think BASIC programming for a Commodore 64).

We have a winner for the increasingly inaccurately named 500 Members Game Giveaway! Congratulations goes to @Blue Mojo who, not only was the first to enter the competition, but also got your vote of approval for such a cool idea: "you're an hr manager for a company the hires video game bosses (lol). new "employees" aka defeated bosses from various games show up. your job as the player is to keep the workplace functional while they fight you as well as each other lmaooo lose condition: they unionize and you become the final boss for them to defeat LOL" I'm also incredibly happy that @Blue Mojo won. He's been a great supporter of this community from day one, I watch his streams and we both share a passion for music 🎸 ! So let me know what game you would like @Blue Mojo , congratz! 🎉 (If only there was a community that would support you bringing that game idea to life 🤔🤣)

I've been using agentic AI workflows (Claude Code, OpenCode, Antigravity) to build games in days instead of months. My Telegram game, Outmine, brings in thousands of dollars of revenue every month. The interesting part... AI wrote the part of the game that generates that revenue 🤯. Now I'm thinking about helping a small group of people do the same thing. Anyone excited about shipping a real, revenue-generating game? 🤔 How many unfinished game projects are living on your hard drive right now?

Drop a screenshot, clip, or short description of whatever you’re building right now. Doesn’t need to be polished. Boxes, placeholder art, broken mechanics, weird bugs — all welcome. The messy prototype stage is where the good stuff starts. What are you making?

I upgraded my Claude account to Max x 20 to take advantage of Fable being available under the subscription model until June 22nd before it’s removed to pay as you go (meaning I won’t be using it again until it comes back into subscription). It’s really absolutely fascinating to see it in action and it is already making me sad to lose it on the 22nd although they have said they will bring it back into subscription options as soon as they can. (I calculated I’ve spent well over $500 CAD on AI in the past month or so under the guise of experimentation but of course that isn’t sustainable, until it starts making me some money). I’ve only been doing fun / creative stuff so far..as Claude is already so good with documents so for run of the mill stuff I’m not sure you would be able to tell the difference. But for my creative / gaming / fun let’s see what it can do brain it’s actually remarkable. As I have a ton of credits to get through (although at this pace I won’t make it through to next Thursday when it resets with any left) it’s allowed me to experiment in a major way. And the beauty of Claude code is if you have the availability of credits you can be coding as many apps as you want simultaneously. So I used the following prompt on 6 games that I’ve previously tried to clone as a starting point to then twist them into something different for my Anomaly Arcade project. In all previous cases the results were never very usable without a ton of tweaking / and normally they are so far off the mark it wouldn’t be worth it. When you would end up with something playable like with simple games like Galaga you would get a working shoot em up that might belong from that era but it certainly wouldn’t feel at all like the original in the slightest, sharing just a tiny piece of DNA. So the prompt is at the bottom of this message. Very simple. And I used it in 6 games just changing the name of the game for each prompt. And I have run them in Opus 4.8 and also Fable 5 on High settings (which is the middle option). Opus would generally create something playable, you might recognize it as a distant cousin to what we were looking for, sometimes it would be playable but be nothing like the original in any way. But very hit or miss. If you got very lucky it may give you a starting point. More complex games like Outrun have no chance at all of getting anything playable on first go let alone similar to the original. Fable on the other hand scores 6 for 6. It obviously did its research very carefully in the case of outrun it found a repo where someone reverse engineered the code. However , as its guardrails won’t allow it to use that it just took all the key values if needed to recreate the overall feel and structure but every sound, graphic, level layout etc is original of its own creation inspired by the original. Or as it calls it “a tribute”. 😁