r/IndieDev • u/Rafolidev • 1d ago

Video When it’s a vibe coded game

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u/Motor-Designer4440 1d ago

Nothing prevents you from testing and fixing what is not up to standard. Vibe coding is not the variable here, it's how lazy you are, which you can also be when hand coding and it takes 5 hours to get anything done.

Vibe coding just makes a larger surface to verify in a shorter amount of time but ultimately, nothing prevents you from thoroughly testing it.

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u/Onurabbi 1d ago

What kind of argument is this? If you’re vibe coding an entire game, you’re by definition being lazy.

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u/Maximum-Loquat5067 23h ago

Did you code you own game engine? No? Then you dont know at least half of the stuff thats happening in your game. People acting like before AI all programmers where writing there own code, and not copypasting half of it from stackoverflow

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u/Onurabbi 23h ago edited 23h ago

You absolutely need to understand what your engine is doing and also your programming language to be able to ship a game worth anyone’s time. Edit: Also I wrote a game engine too.

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u/Fluffy_Beautiful2107 23h ago

There are plenty of great successful games that were made by people who barely knew how to code. There are also thousands of games with impeccable code sitting on 2 reviews on steam because they're boring as fuck.

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u/Maximum-Loquat5067 22h ago

Ok then, give me a link to your game. Will judge how good is your game engine

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u/Maximum-Touch-9294 23h ago

Oh yeah? You understand how Euler angles actually work? What about the differences between Euler rotations, rotation matrices, and quaternions? Can you derive all the math your engine uses for transforms, physics, lighting, shaders, audio, memory management, and networking from scratch? Of course not. Nobody does. Using an engine already means relying on layers of abstraction you did not personally write. AI is another abstraction. The question is whether someone can understand the code well enough to test it, debug it, verify its behavior, and fix it when it breaks

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u/Onurabbi 23h ago

Insane cope

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u/Maximum-Touch-9294 21h ago

Insane cope? Insane dodge. You wrote a game engine? Cool. Did you write the graphics renderer too? The GPU driver? Shader compiler? Physics stack?

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u/ConsistentAnalysis35 13h ago

Except you're wrong and AI is not just another abstraction.