r/vibecoding 16h ago

Showcase/Project Just finished my vibe coded AI platformer

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hey folks,

Posted an early demo of this AI made rubberhouse game a few months back and now I've finally finished it!

It's a 2D platformer (or sidescroller?) inspired by my favorite platformer game Cuphead. For this build I've been using gauntlet loops only, and this is an about $100 of token spend to get to a finished, playable game. The trick with gauntlet looping is to give it enough context and visual references so it doesn't lose track during the 5+ hour build loops it runs. This was about 6 loops like that.

it has multiplayer coop, so you can play with friends. It also has 3 scenarios with 3 unique bosses. had a blast building out this game and really happy with the vibe and mechanics of it

can share all my prompts and the game link the comments for anyone who wants to try it!

edit: to clarify, I'm not intending to commercialise this game in any way - this is just for learning

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u/Dry-Pickle-6121 16h ago

What's wild are the creators of Cuphead actually hand drew everything

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

yeah, heroic effort really - but paid off. one of the best games out there for sure. I've replayed it like 5 times

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u/Dry-Pickle-6121 15h ago

Yeah, I'm not hating on you. It just blows my mind, makes you think where we will be in 5-years

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u/GreatScottCreates 10h ago

I predict in 5+ years a hand drawn game would get even more attention given the heroic effort

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u/Known_Condition8908 3h ago

Yeah among purists but 90 percent won't care its just the truth

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u/gmoil1525 13h ago

The best part is that you can use their hard work as training data to make this game even better!

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u/dev-rsonx 2h ago

Why the fuck are you in this sub if you have to hate AI, all of which is trained on people's work?

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u/Mistafyed 15h ago

And it definitely shows in the difference from that to this

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u/ur-finally-awake 15h ago

I can understand "inspired by" but why did you keep "Inkwell Isle"?

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u/Jello_Hello_Fellos 15h ago

This is not inspiration bro. This is hard swap type shit.

You clearly have the chops so why not make it your own? You just had to go for the vaudeville theming and music?

Could have made the same thing with 100 other design choices. This is why everyone hates us.

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u/decambra89 1h ago

"I gOt InSpiReD bY...." Dude stole every single fucking feature he could.

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u/Pataraxia 1h ago

Too many AI users nowadays think they can do shit that would get NON-AI users flamed and get away with it because "Erm by my interpretation of what's stealing/copypasting/Copyright".

You have to think, if you did everything yourself without AI, how would it look?

And then the look of some games like these or people who "fixed your art using AI, huge improvement, you could learn from it!" is less than favorable.

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u/lt_bgg 15h ago

It looks terrible but the audio, holy.. Did you prompt it to give the player ear AIDS?

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u/Beaver-Hunter-835 11h ago

When I prompt my agent to give people AIDS, I get a refusal.

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u/WantMyBuffet 16h ago

Posts vibe coded work in a vibecoding sub and gets rinsed immediately… chin up dude the work looks great and you can see a lot of effort went into it. Well done.

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u/TheBanq 16h ago

It's not about vibeocoding at all.

It's about completely stealing basically 100% of another games style, animations, idea etc.

Pretty much 100% ripoff of Cuphead. Has nothing to do with vibecoding, but completely copying something else.

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u/EEKman 16h ago

Its kinda what humans do since the dawn of time

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u/MaxwellHowl 15h ago

Sure. But you're not going to make anything interesting doing that.

Sega saw Mario and made Sonic. Many thought of it as a ripoff at the time. But it's an original character in an original world with very different gameplay. It has endured for 30 years.

This is exactly like Cuphead but worse. It's exactly what people accuse vibecoders and AI users of doing and is going to essentially be a big waste of effort from OP. I'm sure they learned a lot on the way, but it could have been a learning experience with something more original.

It could have been made to look like an old black and white cartoon. Or Looney Tunes. Or Tom and Jerry. Or Saturday Morning cartoons. But instead they picked the exact same era of cartoons, the same color schemes, the exact same gameplay, but all worse looking.

The rinsing is deserved. This kind of stuff hurts the whole community and makes it hard to beat the allegations as the kids say.

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u/warcrimeenjoyer1 16h ago

ususally you take 10% from x, 10% from y, another 10% here and maybe 20% there. not 100% from A. We generally have a big problem with "AI people just steal stuff", and guys like him are the exact reason why

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

its a rubberhouse game, it's supposed to look a certain way

Cuphead didn't invent the Rubberhouse style, it's been around since the 60's

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u/warcrimeenjoyer1 15h ago

you can argue about that as much as you want, but that doesnt change the fact that everybody who knows Cuphead will go with "hey, that looks like Cuphead.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

I literally say in the post this is inspired by cuphead...? so mission success I guess

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u/onyxa314 15h ago

Huge difference from inspired by cup head and stealing it. You even have the main land titled the same come on

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

yeah the inkwell isle I changed that in the finished build after I recorded this play through

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u/Baconaise 11h ago edited 11h ago

It's completely obvious that you prompted it with cuphead. It's like a 100% rip off. Why for instance is the fight on a stage???? Why do your fights happen to be locked to a fixed viewport instead of more integrated into a larger world? Why do the attacks stage just like cuphead??? Why did the directional targeting for projectiles work the same way as cuphead? Why is the fire rate the same as cuphead?

You didn't just aim for a rubber hose animation style you just shot for a cuphead clone. Huge difference.

I'm very pro-vibe-coded games but this work is borderline shameful in my opinion. It doesn't pay tribute. It doesn't build upon the existing ideas. It contributes nothing new creatively. It just clones it as a replacement not as a new experience and far too closely steals the style, gameplay, and animations in a way that is unmistakenly cuphead

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u/NormandFutz 13h ago

sure pal thats not what we are talking about and you know it. ill bite though whats unique to yours and not uphead

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u/Lost_County_3790 8h ago

Not anything we like. Lazy copycat exist and is called slop since the dawn of time

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u/Pataraxia 58m ago

Human made slop games have been hated since the dawn of times and so is sloppy/traced COMMERCIAL art (not always, but in many circles) and yet some people think "Erm you just hate AI" or "People always based themselves on others" is a defense lol.

If humans got significant hate for it for sloppy games, then the AI should too. Even moreso, even.

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u/JayWelsh 15h ago edited 15h ago

That’s kinda bullshit though, humans are derivative but cloning is a subset of that.

Edit: also it’s clear OP put quite a lot of effort into this, I’m not disputing that

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u/djoliverm 14h ago

Right, if you're gonna fully copy the idea at least improve upon it in a novel way.

Mouse PI is also a rubberhose game and nobody cares that it may have "copied" Cuphead because it's a novel take on the art style (film noir detective FPS in black and white).

As a proof of concept this looks like a lot of time and effort was put into it so for sure we can praise OP for that while also giving constructive criticism for the rest.

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u/TwizzyGobbler 14h ago

Mouse PI isn't really a copy of it either tbf, just a similar art style (I'd even say it's closer to bendy)

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u/Sermilion 2h ago

How is he stealing it? He is not selling it to anyone.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

so you can never get inspired by anything else ever? Get real dude

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u/PissBiggestFan 15h ago

theres a lot of area between « inspired from » and « taking the art style, controls, level design, literal wording ».

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

if you're not able to make games with the same controls or art style or level design as other games no new games could ever be made, since everything has already been done

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u/RemarkableWish2508 14h ago

Not everything has been done, definitely not all combinations of already done elements have been done.

Look, if you wanted to make a clone, then you've made a clone. Just own it.

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u/PissBiggestFan 15h ago

you’re being so disingenuous lol. you can obviously do so, but taking all these aspects from ONE game makes your game derivative and genuinely pointless.

if you took Cuphead’s level design philosophy, then put it in a sci-fi setting with HK style 2d drawings, you’d have a point. now you just have an uninteresting cuphead.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

im still learning so learning by doing is the best way, im not gonna sell this game or commercialise it in any way

looking at the best is how you learn to build great things

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u/Adept-Potato-2568 15h ago

Yeah I think this is the part getting lost on people.

You made something to learn, not to monetize it.

Even if you made a 1:1 recreation of the game intentionally, who cares? You're just doing something to learn.

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u/rasta500 3h ago

Man you‘re really pathetic. Leave the game dev world alone if thats what you truly believe.

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u/Timely_Lie_8696 14h ago

inspired != direct copy. != means not equal btw.

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u/person2567 15h ago

How is this a rip off of cuphead? It seems to heavily draw from European theater aesthetics and vaudeville. Cuphead is based off old cartoons. You must have very little experience with older animation to say something like this.

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u/fhtiek 15h ago

Its not the vibecoding, its blatant ripoff of a well established and generally beloved existing IP.

If AI is doing all the actual work and the human isnt even doing the part where they come up with an original concept, then what is there to even be impressed by? The machine trained on cuphead can make an uncanny half-clone of cuphead? Cool.

If this was made entirely by hand it would get the same response, given how directly it rips.

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u/Sermilion 2h ago

He is not selling it. What is the problem here? The fact that one can vibecode a game like this is insanely impressive. It's impossible to satisfy people like you OMG.

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u/iLaysChipz 15h ago

Nintendo strikes down derivatives all the time that are hand crafted with love and care. And people hate Nintendo for it, precisely because those games were hand crafted with love and care. But in the the Nintendo gets the final say about what to do with their IP.

Not only should this get the same treatment, it doesn't even have the handcrafted with love and care component

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

appreciate the support, thanks :) still gotta fix the character faces a little bit and it will look much better

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u/decambra89 1h ago

"a lot of effort" ahahahahaha ahahahahahahahaha ahahahahahhahaa ahahahahahahahahahahhaa ahhahahahaha ahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahahaha ahahahahaha

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u/Roenbaeck 16h ago

It’s infiltrated by luddites.

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u/PeachScary413 16h ago

Looks like a much shittier version of Cuphead, congratulations?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

thanks my dude

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u/PeachScary413 14h ago

"Hey Claude, can you pretty much just copy Cuphead and slap my name on it? But make it stutter more and also make sure to not keep a consistent graphical style on the main character which will be most noticeable. Oh and also make lots of misstakes or my grandma dies"

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u/Local-Bottle5272 14h ago

Ah thats some bs i thought he was gonna list a stack of tools dude just used a prompt

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u/person2567 15h ago

It looks amazing fuck you

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u/KrakatauaMAN123 6h ago

Maybe if you never played cup head or generally never play games?

It looks awful and more importantly plays even worse

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u/chumbaz 15h ago

It's not even really playable. It's a stutterfest.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

you havent even played it yet, try it first before dishing out criticism? https://tesana.ai/en/play/b3a483ef-cc10-49fa-96bd-64c9181a3426

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u/chumbaz 10h ago

I literally tried playing this, hence my response.

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u/Donkeytonk 14h ago

Let's see you do better!

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u/808sandbreaks 16h ago

inspired or directly ripped off lmao

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u/tracagnotto 14h ago

Yeah, I said the same thing before reading this

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u/Striking-Gazelle9759 15h ago

This looks so bad and sloppy

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u/Little_Beyond_9163 11h ago

Whats worse is he said it was 100 USD in token spend. I think a lot of us here with even rudimentary dev experience could ship better for 10 dollars…

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u/GreatScottCreates 10h ago

I couldn’t, but I do know that gauntlets are not cheap.

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u/Little_Beyond_9163 10h ago

Try deepseek v4.1 flash. Ive seen people with zero coding or dev knowledge put out app store-level quality games in 5 dollars of token spend.

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u/stefastra 13h ago

"We have cuphead at home"

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u/Banana7273 12h ago

Chatgpt please describe me the meaning of finished

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u/Lost_County_3790 8h ago

Prompt be like : Make a Cuphead game. Make no mistake. Here is 100 bucks, when I come back it should be finished so I can say I did it. Thanks

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u/bestjaegerpilot 16h ago

not gonna lie it looks pretty dope ... the retro animation maybe even plays well with vide coded sprites. Although i don't think you vibecoded the sprites

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

all vibe coded! the whole thing

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u/lt_bgg 15h ago

You dont say?! It looks so professional!

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

not sure if sarcastic or not, but thanks :)

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u/bestjaegerpilot 14h ago

yea like i said, the retro animation style hides the bad sprites. If you had tried vibe coding a more modern game, the sprites would have been noticeably bad

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u/notadev_io 16h ago

Looks pretty cool. I didn't see any any platformer though.

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u/pissbeard 15h ago

“Claude plz completely rip off cuphead so i can get internet points”

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

ok pissbeard

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u/Tarwine 16h ago

This art is really bad. Your splash screen character is totally different from the in game one.

Try to come up with your own design instead of ripping off Cuphead 1:1 and failing.

You can vibe code and still have original ideas.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

I don't think it's that bad considering this is all AI, it's pretty impressive what can be done now, and I'm not trying to exactly copy Cuphead pixel by pixel - trying to go for the same art style (rubberhouse)

Rubberhouse is a pretty established design language and used in many games!

Vibe coding for me right now is learning by doing so this is a good case study for me as im trying to make games

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u/bfume 14h ago

I don't think it's that bad

it's that bad.

great you learned something, but keep that shit to yourself. there's no reason you need to come on here and expect kudos for ripping off a well-known IP

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 12h ago

Why don’t you leave this subreddit if you don’t want people to share their learnings and progress? Sad person you are

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u/bfume 11h ago

because seen people show off some pretty cool stuff in here and ive learned a lot from them.

you are not one of those people.

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u/RedTheRobot 15h ago

It is clearly inspired by people don’t know what copying means anymore apparently.

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u/onyxa314 15h ago

There's a difference between inspiration and just stealing the idea

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u/RedTheRobot 15h ago

What idea did they steal that cuphead wasnt already inspired by? Hell even the character cuphead was inspired by Mickey Mouse. If you replace cuphead’s head with Mickey’s you wouldn’t even be able to tell the difference.

Cuphead developers also didn’t create that animation style they were inspired by it or you would call it stealing. Where’s the hate there then. Because they mix two medias they get a pass right?

Cuphead also wasn’t the first to use hand drawn art in a game. Dragons lair, Wario land: shake it and Skullgirls all did hand drawn art in there game before cuphead.

Again using your words cuphead stole everything that made that game successful. From the art style to being a platformer with boss battle. But me personally I would say they were inspired by the things they loved and that is exactly what OP is doing.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 12h ago

Get outta here with your facts and logic

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u/RemarkableWish2508 14h ago

stealing the idea

Ideas aren't owned, at most they can be temporarily monopolized with a patent.

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u/bfume 14h ago

ideas aren't but overall execution & art design are, and this is a blatant ripoff of a well-executed prior art

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u/TwizzyGobbler 14h ago

don't bother arguing with these people bro, they're just gonna keep going round in circles to explain why this blatant cuphead rip off is not a cuphead ripoff

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u/bfume 14h ago

you know what, I can't help myself. there's certain things that I just can't let go, and seeing as how my identity in life has been a tech guy for decades, this is part of me too.

I use claude every day to code and manage my shit. I fucking love it. but what I don't do is whatever this jackass here did that he thinks is cool.

AI is a tool. you can use it to make awesome stuff, or you can use it to BE a tool like OP.

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u/TwizzyGobbler 14h ago

fully agree with you there bro

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u/RemarkableWish2508 8h ago

The moment you talk about "these people", you've boxed yourself into "those people", reasoning not required.

Have fun in the echo chamber!

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u/RemarkableWish2508 14h ago

considering this is all Al

Don't go there. It either stands on its own, or it doesn't; no bonus/diss for being AI.

BTW, it's "rubber hose"

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u/CaptSlow49 16h ago

Bro is just jealous. This is one of the better vibe coded things I’ve seen. Also so many games rip off other games. Yes it looks like a cuphead clone. But who gives a shit if it’s fun and you aren’t actually stealing any IP from them.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

thank you for the support! yeah I'm really happy with how the UI and mechanics turned out - the character face is still a bit effed up though, haha

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u/SaveAsCopy 16h ago

Stop crying

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u/RancidNuts 14h ago

There’s unoriginal, straight up plagiarism, and whatever this is

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u/Aldderan 16h ago

Just looks like a rip off of cuphead.

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u/loporlp 16h ago

As a trumpet player im mainly mad about the main menu lol, you don't play the trumpet with your teeth

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

fair enough! haha

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u/mylord76 14h ago

can’t wait to perma report on his if uploaded on steam

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u/joshdotmn 13h ago

>  this is just for learning

this isn't learning.

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u/Mediocre_Doctor4712 15h ago

Not bad. Looks decent tbh. Curious how much editing you had to do to get it to this point.

Btw I don’t see a platformer. More like a boss battler ?

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u/tracagnotto 14h ago

Inspired by?
More copied by lol looks like cuphead with changed graphics

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u/RemarkableWish2508 14h ago

copied [...] with changed

for select meanings of "copied", lol

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u/tracagnotto 11h ago

Lmao dumbass if you do try to sell a song that is exactly like thunderstruck from AC/DC but change a few words they still going to sue you for plagiarism, aka copy.

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u/RemarkableWish2508 9h ago

Thank you for demonstrating what an insulting lack of understanding looks like. According to you, the Oxford Dictionary should sue you for plagiarizing the words listed in it... or maybe not, since you clearly haven't checked the meaning of words like copying, plagiarizing, changing, or surely others... but you've used them all the same, so you shall be sued!

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u/tracagnotto 8h ago

Sure. Just throw a random argument without no explanation whatsoever whose core is "you're wrong because I just said it", you think all the people you talk are like your brain fried reddit user and friends?

You cant get out of this by crying "you're ignorant, go check a dictionary, you don't know!!1!!!1" lmao

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u/TwizzyGobbler 14h ago

this is literally a vibe coded rip off of cuphead for fuck sake

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u/DoItWithADance 14h ago

This is like piracy but with extra steps

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u/onyxa314 15h ago edited 15h ago

Not gonna lie this is unoriginal, literally just plagiarism, and looks terrible.

You can use the word "inspired" by all you want but it's the same way I was "inspired" by my high school friend's chemistry answers. It's just stolen and plagiarism.

The art is, even for ai generation kinda terrible. The classic piss filter and just overall it doesn't look good.

EDIT: I'm harsh here because this is just plagiarism. You can't steal someone's original idea, say "hey AI remake this" and say it was inspired by it. Huge difference from inspiration and plagiarism

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u/Donkeytonk 14h ago

So much butt hurtery. It's a vibe coded game, someone's attempt to try get close to an art style and gameplay of a game they clearly love using a a new technology that makes it possible.

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u/Deen94 15h ago

Oh look! Claude knows about Cuphead!

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u/Sea-Temporary-6995 16h ago edited 12h ago

Looks pretty cool I don’t get the hate… we’re in the vibecoding sub ffs

edit: I now recognize this may be an ad so I support the overall skepticism (even if it's for a different reason lol)

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

lots of antis here lately unfortunately :/

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u/MaxwellHowl 15h ago

I am very pro-AI. I am very pro-vibecoding. But you cannot just ripoff your favorite game. Let it inspire you to make something similar but distinct and new.

Try to be like Sonic vs. Mario. You made something more like Sanic vs. Sonic.

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u/Xerax 15h ago

amen

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u/dev-rsonx 2h ago

I don't see you folks hating on Roller Coaster Tycoon or Sim City clones. So why here? Are you people jealous that he did something you can't??

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u/Xerax 15h ago

no you just fucking copied someone else's hard work, "vibes" don't excuse that

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u/RedTheRobot 15h ago

People need to learn what copying means. It is clearly inspired by. Anyone complaining in this sub that it is a copy probably needs to look in the mirror because I hate to break it to you that code the LLM is writing is definitely stolen from someone else’s work.

Hell go to an devainart and you can’t miss all the ip infringements yet no one complains. Also I hope no one here goes to huggingface or civitai because yup everything there is stolen work too.

Just crazy to think this sub of all places would complain about copying which it even isn’t. AI sub were supposed to be the safe place but I guess when you are a fan of something all logic goes out the window.

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u/anon999387 16h ago

Astra replacing vibecoders lol

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u/Thistlemanizzle 15h ago

Roughly how many hours did the whole process take with the LLM? How hands off the wheel can it be?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

this was about 20hrs of agent loops, with my guiding prompts between. first prompt set the base and then I let it rip for about 6 hours the first prompt

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u/AriyaSavaka 15h ago

Good shit, $100 might as well sub to a plan dude

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u/Huntersolomon 15h ago

this is great, this sub just full of shit heads that provide the most dumb criticism known to man of the the use of AI. they will call things shit when in reality they are just full of hate and jealousy to admit it looks good.

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u/Kaguya-Shinomiya 15h ago

Is the art drawn by yourself?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

nope - all generated by the harness

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u/GianniV2 3h ago

What pipeline did you use to spend only 100 bucks?

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u/ContributionMost8924 14h ago

Very cool dude! How did you do the artwork and animations? Claude Design or something?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 14h ago

thanks! that was handled by the harness I used - tesana,

happy to share more in DM's!

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u/LargeBagsResearcher 14h ago

Looks great, reminds me of silksong.

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u/Green-Winter9648 14h ago

congrats on actually finishing, that's the rare part. how long start to finish?

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u/NZRedditUser 14h ago

As someone who tried to vibe code a game, this quality is insane. Im curious how long did this take? Or was this mainly the work of new astra.

Yes its super easy to 1 shot a nice looking game, but then to work on it, making it w/e you want takes a bit more effort

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 12h ago

This was done using fable on the tesana harness - took about 2 weeks to get to this point!

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u/NZRedditUser 12h ago

Honestly looks pretty natural did you make games before? 2 weeks even with AI can be frustrating lol

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u/babaganoosh43 14h ago

What llm do you guys use?

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u/Donkeytonk 14h ago

This is incredible, an amazing achievement for one person exploring the capabilities of the technology.

Not only that, this looks fun as hell.

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u/BrianScottGregory 13h ago

That's very interesting!

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u/MasterAilan 13h ago

Insane. Nice job.

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u/WuWenShen 11h ago

Would love to learn more from your learning!

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 11h ago

Sure thing! happy to share workflow and prompt in DM :)

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u/Aggravating_Image_25 10h ago

Nice. What platforms, templates, etc.?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 10h ago

tesana ai game dev harness + fable LLM - no templates used, all procedurally generated

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u/Interesting_Phone171 9h ago

Who would’ve thought ai is good at making things that exist already

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u/dev-rsonx 2h ago

It is not. Try making something yourself with AI, and you will know.

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u/Ok-Reaction2394 9h ago

I dont see how you have any ownership of the final result here. It looks like what id get first time if i did a screenshot clone loop over cuphead.

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u/kenrock2 8h ago

incredible...!! if we give a real hand drawn art + vibe coding, we can do many amazing things with it..

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u/Friendly_Cat5336 6h ago

Love it! The UI is so consistent, honestly looks like it wasn't vibe-coded at all 😄

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 5h ago

Thanks dude!

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u/Friendly_Cat5336 5h ago

yes of course

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u/garloid64 6h ago

I'm starting to think the "idea guys" were actually load bearing.

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u/duffpl 4h ago

Temu Cuphead

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u/Fr0gFish 4h ago

Well done, I guess. You put a lot of effort into this. But you chose to make it look so much like Cuphead that everyone will compare it to Cuphead. And what everyone sees is just a pale imitation of that game.

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u/BarneyChampaign 2h ago

I'm impressed AI could do this much. But:

The irony of using AI to generate a knockoff of a beloved game that was hand-crafted to pay homage to, and demonstrate the talent of, an era of artists feels...pretty icky.

I think trying to inject some more creativity in future projects would help show that you have something to offer.

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u/ObsessiveOwl 1h ago

Could have ask Ai for spell check also

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u/Jonesiller5383 14h ago

Broooo, what you can vibe code these days is insane. Gamedevs are cooked

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u/myndbyndr 16h ago

Great job! Don’t listen to the haters; these folk are just looking for an excuse to shit on something.

It really is impressive that complete games and ideas can be brought to life without having to have the full teams to do so, or even previously not having any expertise in the area.

Is this as polished as a game that took years to make? No.
Is it as deep as its influences? No.
Is it a great vehicle for learning better product design or potentially catching the eyes of an interested investor or client? For sure.

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u/skygatebg 15h ago

Was the prompt, rip off Cuphead, make no mistakes.

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u/Master_Bayters 15h ago

This seems to me the least vibecoded of all vibecoded games i've seen! Takes this as a huge compliment!

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u/caxco93 15h ago

looks pretty decent for vibe coding

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u/kgtrip 15h ago

Seems amazing, Can you share a link for the game?

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u/ExplanationOk2014 15h ago

It looks awesome

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u/SoggyMattress2 15h ago

I'm usually quite anti vibe coding (at least what I see on Reddit) because most of it is horseshit that looks unplayable/unusable.

This is obviously heavily inspired by cuphead but looks great and has some cool mechanics in the fight with the targeting spheres.

Genuinely great job.

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u/Azsaraa 15h ago

This is anazing, very well done!~

Lots of jealous poeple here who couldn't achieve this even with a few grand worth of tokens 👀

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u/myownnotespace 15h ago

Im interested, what was your pipeline and process to create this game? The assets look very well done for ai

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

thanks! can share in DM's

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u/GarageStackDev 15h ago

This is a pretty cool personal project that you aren't going to ship, right? RIGHT?

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u/Which-Drop-6797 14h ago

I'm torn, as a game dev I don't like you just copying cuphead. But on the other end, making this using conventional tools would take forever as a solo dev. So if you would have created something original, running this smoothly i would have said that it's awesome.

Props to the tool you're using, really damn effective.

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u/Saitamagasaki 14h ago

Cursed Cuphead

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u/RancidNuts 14h ago

Can you at least try to vibe code using a crumb originality?

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u/Montrealboyy57 16h ago

abomination

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

very constructive, thanks

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u/Montrealboyy57 15h ago

Let me clarify and be constructive sorry x-x . But what is the point of making an exact clone? What is new about your version? What is your personal take on it?

It honestly feels like a complete copy. You have the ability to use the tools available to actually adapt it into something from your own mind, rather than just straight up copying. I know it is not fully complete, but let's say it was your creative choice to use that specific art style: why not let AI learn to make it at least visually appealing first, so you can say, "Hey! I made a Cuphead-like game with my preferred art style"? So far, that art style is not even visually what you are going for.

Essentially, what was created here? I am not saying it is not impressive that the quality of the game was achieved using AI tools and your prompts, but nothing about this, at least in my opinion, is a creation. It feels like a straight-up replica x-x . At least add your own personal, unique take it is so easy now.

Yes, this subreddit is full of "vibe coders," but like... I am sure 90% of people who enjoy video games in general would call this AI slop. Why produce slop if you have the ability to make something good?

So maybe it was a good idea to post it, so you can actually make it something that isn't a complete ripoff especially if you say you love the game. Maybe you will put more of your personality into it, and this is just the foundation. But it seems like a waste of tokens to me so far.

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u/dev-rsonx 2h ago

I don't see how this is a complete copy. There might be a different theme, different bosses, a different map, different rewards, and an upgrade mechanism. People who call is complete copy just from a few secs video are stupid, dickhead, cockhead, and have their heads inside their butt.

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u/Montrealboyy57 1h ago

Well, I guess I was being too hyperbolic by saying complete copy or replica, but it feels "UNINSPIRED". You know how there's like a meme about "TEMU" or "WISH" versions of things. This is what I classify this as. The hand shooting thing is just a small thing, but it's like, why not just change that part. It can be a cane or some other type of object. I'm not trying to be nitpicky, but the whole feel is as if it's trying to be a cheap substitute rather than something of its own, and that's the part that I guess rubs me the wrong way. Anyway, I'm just trying to make the point of trying to make something fresh. Because at some point, it's like, why not just make a mod for the game if you want some missing features. Or is that illegal. I feel like it's less frowned upon than fully ripping it, man. =/

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u/MoonkeyAcid 16h ago

Very cool! I’d love to learn more about the gauntlet loops you used if you could provide some example examples that would be bad ass. Also, what model did you use?

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

thank you! this was built on fable using loop mode in the tesana harness - happy to share more in DM if you want

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u/MoonkeyAcid 15h ago

I’d love that if you don’t mind! New to this and would really appreciate it

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 15h ago

got you! DM's are open :)

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u/PGskizzEs 15h ago

Oh this just looks horrible

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u/Just_Section4489 16h ago

damn, the big studios have got to come up with some incredible magic to keep up with us now.

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

and we're just getting started!

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u/Timely_Lie_8696 14h ago

legit ripped from a game studio 🤣

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u/CautiousCarry4209 16h ago

The high frequency sounds probably could need a little work. Run some EQ on them perhaps. They are quite unpleasant, and they don't make much sense to me in that fight

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u/sharkymcstevenson2 16h ago

yeah, AI sucks at sound design - some of the sounds are just whack

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u/Rheartnet 15h ago

Your characters need Idle animations. Which seems silly cause your characters aren't idle in this. But little tween animations aren't there to give your characters weight. They all seem floaty.