Joel Cook

 After the first two games that were largely made with minimal design input from me I decided to make one more game but this time ended up giving a lot more input. We started with the same prompt as the previous game but and ended up with basically the first game all over again so I decided I needed to take a little more of a design roll this time. I pushed it into more of a mining and upgrade based game and although it never quite got the the upgrade store right considering it was made over the course of a couple of hours with no human coding I'm still pretty impressed with the result. The game needs a lot of tuning but it's still a pretty fun game overall. I found with chatGPT using just the chat interface it seems to be limited on the scope of a project that it can hold in it's memory all at once and once you get too many features it can only seem to implement some of them so you get to a point where it leaves out the shields and you tell it to put the shields bac...

 Well that last game was not too bad. It was a great improvement from some of chatGPT's previous attempts but I wanted to see what else it would come up with so after we were done I said "Make me a completely different game with a similar level of complexity." ChatGPT just reskinned the game. I had a laugh and then asked it to make me a new game in a completely different genera. This time it came up with a tower stacking game but it really struggled with the physics. It wanted to make realistic physics but it just couldn't figure out how to pull it off so I had to intervene  and suggest it use an existing library. I also suggested a few changes like making the canvas a little bigger so you could see the blocks fall off and changing the scoring so it made more sense. There are some issues with how rotated blocks render but I was doing this for fun one evening and I just didn't care enough to have it fix it after it tried to gasslight me that that's how rotated ...

I got bored the other night and decided to see how chatGPT does at game development these days. I started with the simple prompt "make a browser based game". I then followed up by saying "yes" to whatever it suggested. I did have to intervene a few times to let it know about bugs but in the end this is where we go. This game was designed and built entirely by chatGPT. My next few posts will have a few other games it made but my level of interference gets higher and higher with each game. Restart