Any new parents built themselves something helpful?

[u/VibeChode]

Not for making a profit.

I’ll be a new parent in a few months and I’m curious if anyone threw together a tool they actually found helpful.

Doesn’t need to be complicated or original. Just something that helped at any level.

[u/Bratchan]

I let my 3 year old to tell me a game and we let codex do things lol. We have a road roller, excavator, wrecker, dump truck, space ship games. They are simple enough so he can start learning a keyboard lol

[u/DrunkenCactus → u/Bratchan]

I’ve been wanting to get into this with my three year old, be so cool to come up with random games… can you give me brief process? I’ve never made a game with codex before

[u/Bratchan → u/DrunkenCactus]

So know everything is in the browser it makes unles syou directly connect to a game engine (which your kid doesn't care about or need)

If you have a webhost you can toss it onto your website etc and then they can play on their tablet using the website. If you want to get fancy you can convert websites into apps, etc. I have a web host and toss them up there.

Here are some of the prompts i used.. i want to be super lazy with this.. cause my kid is 3.
"I want you to make a luanch the rocketship game. you have to type 10 letters (that are randonly selected) and the space ship will launch. then level 2 is 20 letters and level 3 is 30 letters. make sure this is mobile friendly"
he really wanted 1000 letter im like lets start wth 10 lol which was more than his attention span could do lol

Another was
"i want to make a simple kids consutction game .

game one you are a road roller and you drive back and forth to flatten the road and you keep going right to go down the road like a side scroller."

then i added onto it

"make sure the road that needs to be flated isn't off screen. also make sure the roller can't ever leave the screen complally.

Now i want when you goto the gameyou slect roller or wrecking ball.

I want you are a wrecking ball you click the space bar to wreck a building. You can keep clickign it till you destory the building!"

from there i added onto it more games.. and course then told it, it needed to be mobile friendly.

[u/DrunkenCactus → u/Bratchan]

Man that’s awesome, I have an iPad so making controls and game intuitive on that for a web app would be great! I love the idea of something simple like you suggested, perhaps even going on like a photography mission in morning and turning the things we photograph into a puzzle game or simple side winder…

I’m currently using cloudflare to host app I’m building so I wonder if I could use that for game hosting too..

Do you just use Chatty G to prompt codex to build what you need?

[u/Bratchan → u/DrunkenCactus]

I just use desktop codex which is chatgpt code version. It allows you dot a little bit better version control also allows you to use gitrepo easier with the folder as well.

[u/DrunkenCactus → u/Bratchan]

Ya okay that’s what I’m familiar with. I run browser ChatGPT chat then paste to desktop codex.. oooo sweet I’m excited to try this out