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.

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