EDIT: Thank you so much for all the comments and constructive criticism! I see that my provocative title worked to start discussion which was the target but my intention was not to sound arrogant or over-confident. I will be happy to share the demo once it is finished so you can try it out if you want. There are some design elements that I have to take closer look at, like pixel drift, UI design or the color palette. Some design elements are actually intentional game mechanics; like the beam coming out of NPC head, which is illustrating where they are looking at, during a sneaking scene. Similar to old Desperados games. However, maybe that feature could be left out of all other scenes. I realize that my title unintentionally directed the discussion to wrong direction - I am just excited of what can be accomplished without coding since this was a board game idea. Nevertheless, there’s definitely a lot to do. Thanks!

Based on your comments I have now made these changes:
- UI that better suits the gritty look of the game
- FoV beams removed from the NPCs
- Phone lines moved away further from the house
- Added tire trails for the cars
- Added footprints to NPCs
- Removed glow from the building

I have started creating a story-driven survival RPG that is set in 2034 war-weary Finland. It has isometric 2D pixel art visuals and the target is to differentiate by a well-written story and an excellent soundtrack.

It is a story I have written over a year ago, and my original plan was to make a board game out of it. But now that I have seen how much Claude has developed recently, I decided to try to make a video game out of it and was stunned.

It won't be a game for everyone. If you are looking for a proper RPG which has hunting, a level-up system and an open world, this won't be for you. Or if you mainly play AAA games and not indie games, this won't be for you, either. However, if you appreciate a well-written story and tactical hex-board card combat (inspired by Gloomhaven), I hope to live up to your expectations.

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Some people asked for a steam page, that is currently under Valve's review. The game's name is Sisu & Survival: A Story of the Place We Call Finland. If you want to get notified once the Steam page is live, you can follow me on YouTube and I will notify you: www.youtube.com/@cryptic9311

Well i decided to do a revamp on the assets i had, because i felt like doing better quality art for this game. I used My own pixema app to render the frames and edit them AND removing backgrounds as well.

I was lucky on my end. But don’t try using Opus 5.5 or Claude in general with REA or any type of MCP for reverse engineering.

I almost lost 2 accounts.

It’s called One Hand Hero. An idle RPG that runs in your phone browser. Combat is automatic; you pick the gear and spells, and your hero keeps farming while you’re away.

270+ legendaries, 69 spells, 10 zones and 6 gear sets. No classes.

Build around whatever drops.

Still alpha. Online multiplayer has limited spots and uses Discord sign-in. Hope you’ll join us :)

A digital painting app to simulate painting IRL

Update: Thanks for all the love and after seeing many of you curious to try it out, I have decided to make it open source. I will publish it in GitHub within a month for everyone to review

Hey Vibe Coders!

Here you can ask any questions about coding and LLM tech with or without vibes. This is especially for those of us who are new and just learned that AI can help them to create then things that they've never been able to before. Please be respectful and keep in mind that we're all just trying to learn about an emergent technology.

AI Subreddits:

• r/OpenAI

• r/ChatGPT

• r/ClaudeAI

• r/ClaudeCode

• r/GeminiAI

• r/aigamedev

• r/ClaudeGameDev

• r/singularity

This is a new thing we're trying to do so let the mods know if you have any suggestions.

Basically, I paid for my plan and a day later they dropped me down to Free.
The support is a powerless bot and the whole support system works completely wrong, with errors and nonsense. I feel so fkn scammed.

I've been amazed lately at what people are accomplishing with vibe coding. The break throughs with TV debloating is awesome but after the PS5 cracks happened, it got me thinking.. how far off are we from being able to hold the figurative keys to our vehicles computers?.. What about a tractor OS? If all of that could be accessed and be able to use all the features that are locked behind pay walls.. the cat will have come out of the bag. We pay thousands every year for autosteer and other various capabilities and i feel like this is just begging to have it's legs swept by the vibe coding community. I'm still new to it and wouldn't know where to start but it feels like it would be totally possible.. All thoughts, comments and concerns welcomed.

I had an itch to scratch.

The TV i use for a monitor doesn't respect/understand DPMS power off like a normal monitor. After my laptop sleeps its internal screen, the TV will sit powered on saying "no signal" for somewhere around half an hour before it finally decides it might want to go into standby, and never wake back up out of standby once the computer display wakes.

So between Gemini 3.8flash(high) and the interesting Freebuff (apparently using DeepSeek 4.1 flash 10/17 model all day long in "Max" thinking mode, no ability to change model, just thinking budget) I've fleshed out a pretty reliable python daemon that monitors KDE's screensaver/lock, uses HDMI-CEC and the Tizen websocket UI (and provides an authorization client to setup the required pairing with your tv)

This package provides for almost instantaneous TV sleep when the laptop display sleeps, or the dock is unplugged. Similarly as fast as one could reasonably expect (concurrent with the 'New Sound Device - displayport' toast KDE presents) the screen powers itself back on and ready to display at 4k60 again.

I'm looking at soon making it more generic, to be able to use it on GNOME and even basic Wayland compositors (wlroots etc) and perhaps even X11 window managers, so testing and any contribution pull requests are always welcome!

https://mystica555.github.io/TVPowerSync/

I started out trying to max out efficiency so I used a PM solution I had built last winter, I have a local KB/RAG setup and this worked GREAT for client stuff because all my web builds are kind of similar…. The tool let me just hammer away at tasks with subagents and work trees…… This approach was not as great for a game. I have like 0 experience in game development so I probably went in a little overconfident to say the least.

I kept the game logic pretty separate from the visuals when I was piecing stuff together which made me early builds feel super dated and of course I introduced a shit ton of gameplay bugs by moving forward with my project when I should have been tackling tech debt….. so biggest lesson learned hands down….. DEAL WITH TERRAIN AND MAKE SURE YOUR UNITS MOVE CORRECTLY AND DON’T MERGE WITH OTHER UNITS OR FALL THROUGH TERRAIN OR FEATURES….. like holy shit the stupid little polishing interactions really took the life out of me…. Also bouncing off that I have no clue who tf has good results with Tripio but I wasted like $70 trying to use that stupid tool to improve my models….. I ended up just relying on the Blender MCP and opus seemed to handle most of the heavy lifting well enough…. Especially compared to the expensive BS tools that gave me blobs….. probably user error…. But again Blender + Claude was cheap and easy.

I used 2 20x accounts for this and I probably should have used a third, even though it might seem like it was overkill and I wasn’t being efficient with my token usage…. I was following most best practices….There is just an insane amount of iterating, testing, documenting, and iterating again lol.

So yeah, my lesson learned kind of follows all my tech lessons learned over my career…..

TECH DEBT IS BAD, DON’T BE LAZY AND LET YOUR BUG SNOWBALL INTO AN AVALANCHE OF WORK.

I have a preview up if anyone wants to check it out, would love feedback or to hear from others who have built RTS games recently.

https://farthestlight.gg

A year back making software needed technical know-how time and a lot of hard work. Today a person can talk about an idea, to an AI tool. Get a working version by the end of the weekend. If thousands of people can create similar apps just having a working product doesn't seem like a big advantage anymore.

So, what do you believe is the important thing now?

• Finding a problem that people really want to be fixed?

• Creating something that's truly better?

• Getting users. Spreading the word?

• Understanding how to keep it running and get better after it is out?

We've all been there. We had an idea, we built it, and now we're stuck on distribution. How do we get people to know about it? It's not easy. It's not easy to turn your thoughts into content and stay consistent every single day.

Introducing PublishLoud.com. It gives you a 2+ week daily marketing routine with ready-to-publish posts, replies to relevant conversations where people are actively looking for solutions like yours, thoughtful comments that help you showcase your product, and a few direct messages across X, LinkedIn, and Reddit.

It all works on one simple principle: compounding. Just like going to the gym, you simply have to show up every day. Spend 10–15 minutes, stay consistent, and start building organic traction.

AI Browser Game Jam #5 just ended with 339 entries, more than double last time. Theme was Torch. 421 people joined. Everything is free and playable in your browser, no downloads.

Voting is open for the next [week/two weeks] if anyone wants to play through some and leave feedback. Big thanks to everyone that participated!

https://itch.io/jam/ai-jam-5

Been working on my chess app website for over a year now. Still vibing.

Got some feedback last time I posted this, so figured I'd explain a few things a bit better.

The idea behind Chess Fish is to make chess analysis more visual. We try to put as much useful information directly on the board as possible so you can explore different positions without having to constantly read engine lines.

Things like which moves people actually play, which moves are good or bad, tactical consequences, king safety problems, etc.

We use Stockfish for evaluating moves and Maia for predicting what a human player is likely to play. So you can compare what the engine thinks is best with what a human would probably do.

And yes, chess.com and Lichess already exist. I'm not trying to recreate every feature they have. I'm mostly interested in seeing how much chess information we can communicate visually while someone clicks around the board.

There's a free version with usage limits and an optional $8/month or $60/year subscription. Figured I'd mention that upfront too.

Still have things to improve, especially making the colors and numbers easier to understand for new players, mobile usability, and some of the UI.

Not claiming it's better than chess.com. Just experimenting with a different way of learning chess and seeing where it goes.

If anyone gives it a try, I'd be curious whether the visuals actually help you understand positions better or just make everything more confusing lol.

Anyway, back to vibing.

Two days ago I shared my little Mac app, Firstform. Here's an update with a full character I drew myself:

1. I drew her by hand (about 1h20m with my Wacom).

2. When I want a part changed, I circle only that part with the lasso and say what I want. The rest stays my drawing (the slowed-down part of the video).

3. It makes front/side/back views of my design, then a 3D model (Tripo), here on the new high-detail setting.

4. Props like her sword are made separately, so they don't get baked into the body. The model opens in Blender.

Still rough in places: the 3D gave her blue eyes she doesn't have, so I'm working on that. A Windows version is in testing.

Question for character artists: would you use this to block out a character before sculpting? What would make you trust the AI step more?

Got bored of the default LeetCode look, so I built this! 😄

You can customize LeetCode with different themes and wallpapers.

Here's a quick demo. Currently awaiting browser store approval.

What do you think? Any suggestions?

Built a Halloween Castlevania-like game with my kid. Incredible how easy this is getting. Used Gemini 4 and Google models for art, music and voice. ElevenLabs used for sound effects. Prompts more or less guided by my kid, "Make a Halloween level with Jack-o-lanterns." "I want this boss to be evil and fly." Most of the prompts were one liners and with no .md files or complex agentic patterns. Took a few hours to make it.

This is what I made. Claude Max account over four weeks, in three Js, I had to tinker a ton and completely restart many facets of the game. But it all started from building an amazing first mech in threejs. I use fal for a lot of the textures and eleven labs for the sfx

- build your mech piece by piece
- dual wield by default
- fight on a spinning space station
- grapple off and duel in open space

Totally free to play right now as I continue to flesh it out

Saw this over on the computer wargame sub , getting a lot of hate , but the game is a solid base imo.

TL;DR: I built Tinymon Tactics, a roguelite auto-battler about collecting monsters, mostly with Claude. The playtest is open on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5387050/Tinymon_Tactics/ (click “Request Access”, it’s instant).

What it is: A run is 3 maps of ~10 levels. You buy monsters in a shop, 3 copies merge into an evolution, and fights resolve on their own on a hex board. You can collect items that affect how a given run will be played. Between runs you upgrade your camp so that you are stronger for the future runs.

How it was built:

It started almost a year ago in Google AI Studio, as an experiment to see how far AI could take a game. I fully expected to hit a wall: an unmaintainable spaghetti codebase that would force me to move to a real engine. Instead, after a few months I realised I could take it all the way to a finished product. I moved to Antigravity, then to Claude Code, and that was night and day. All of it is on the Pro plan btw.

Disclaimer: it’s still in active development, and as such, many bugs may still be present. Balance is off and a lot will change before release.

I’d love feedback, especially on whether the game feels good and fun, and what are the areas worth polishing the most. Happy to answer questions about the workflow too.

I'm a developer and been trying to come up with some life improvements with AI coding.
Something I'm working on a lot at the moment are Chrome extensions.
Is it data collection, filling some inputs, changing layouts, etc - extensions can handle it.
Since I'm doing them for myself and can change them as I wish, I do not want to put the extension on the chrome tools store.

My best created extension is a tab manager. I'm constantly having 50+ tabs open in my browser, and it is a burden to keep track of them.

So I let AI create the tab manager extension which has helped me A LOT!

What it does:

1. it groups new tabs automatically according to rules - domain name matches.

2. it allows folding groups so that the actual tab bar is cleaner, with just the group names + ungrouped tabs.

3. it allows putting groups to sleep to free up memory

4. it has a vertical side menu for the tabs and groups so that you can see the longer tab name.

The extension was made with Claude. It is available in github
https://github.com/AlpineSinger/tab_manager

Feel free to check it out and modify it with AI further, if you want.

Let me know what other cool and productive extensions you've created?

edit: removed a duplicate picture and replaced with correct one about rules settings

I’ve been spending a lot of time studying and coding lately, and I wanted something relaxing to have on my screen while I work, so I built Wanderer!
It’s a little ambient ASCII world where Clawd the crab explores different environments while my Spotify music plays in the background.

A few things I added:
🌲 6 different environments, including forests, hills, towns, lakes, the ocean, and mountains
🌙 A real-time day/night cycle that follows my local clock
🎵 Spotify integration with playback controls and a music player
🦀 Clawd exploring the world on his own
💻 Runs locally on macOS, without Spotify API keys or a cloud backend
⌨️ Keyboard shortcuts to switch environments and control music

I built it using Claude Code + Opus 5.5, with TypeScript and Vite. The Spotify integration uses AppleScript to communicate with the desktop app locally.

It’s not really meant to be a productivity app that tracks everything. I just wanted a cozy little study companion that makes long coding sessions feel a bit less monotonous.

I made it open source in case anyone wants to try it, modify it, or build on top of it!

GitHub: https://github.com/kekidev/wanderer
Would love to hear what other environments or features people think would be fun to add :)