The October inflection point for vibe game development (simonwillison.net)

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[-] audaxdreik@pawb.social 31 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Then I tried telling Claude Opus 5.5 to “Make it a LOT more fun”... and it did.

Like this is just the most asinine thing in my opinion. The pitch for AI is that it can "make whatever you want" and these people don't even have a single original idea in their heads. They settle for slop because slop is what they want, and they've convinced themselves this is how everyone else sees it, too

[-] 00000@reddthat.com 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

These empty, meaningless nonsense prompts like "make it fun" "think hard" "make it really good" and "be creative" are insane. Even "prompt engineers" aren't this dumb. I honestly thought "make no mistakes" was just a joke but this guy is actually out here doing it.

[-] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

It's actually insane what a majority of these people prompt for, especially with diffusion models. As if they completely neglect how these models are trained: images paired with text descriptions. Then writing instructions instead 😭

[-] flamingos@feddit.uk 26 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This isn’t my best game yet—it’s not as fun to play as Battle Drones—but it represents the kind of game I want more of: weird, fun, uniquely personal—something that wouldn’t have been built in the before-times.

This is about the cosy farming game btw. The 'uniquely personal' is the fact you grow pumpkins and the author grew up in a place that grew pumpkins. Imagine not engaging with the already oversaturated farming sim genre because it's not enough of a facsimile of your childhood. It's all just so anti-art.

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 6 days ago

Have you seen the amount of pumpkins you can grow in Stardew Valley? You can even grow huge ones randomly. And I'm sure you can mod in bigger farmland or automatic huge pumpkins. Or even make other crops look like pumpkins or something.

This person just wants to feel like they "made" something special that no one else has ever thought of.

[-] YourMomsTrashman@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

You can grow stupidly large pumpkins at a rapid pace in the farmer was replaced! Oh, right, this is probably the worst game you could give this guy; it teaches you the fundamentals of computer programming 😱

[-] bugbear@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 6 days ago

Ooh, nice. I enjoyed sowm programming games in the past, after a quick look this looks like it could be fun. Thanks!

[-] reseller_pledge609@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 days ago

I need to check out this game. It sounds like such a fun concept.

[-] Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 24 points 6 days ago

Just ruining everything for a quick buck here and there

[-] strawberry_enjoyer42@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 6 days ago

Presenting: the American Dream!

[-] helix@feddit.org 9 points 6 days ago

Imagine: they spent money on tokens and got no money in return. It's not even a quick buck. It's a quick dopamine hit. And the games are trashed as soon as they are played — hardly any runtime, and no replay value.

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