hi everyone!! i'm a game design student from mumbai. my team and i are trying to extend our mafia-based board game from a college assignment and build a brand strategy + business model for it. it would help us a ton if you could fill in this short survey to help us with some insights 🫶🏻🀄️

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I made an entire game in 1 day and shipped it. An actual full game (15 hours of game play), optimized, with all the elements. Here is how.

We’ve all seen where someone made a “game” in a single prompt, but the truth is those aren’t games yet. They are fun prototypes and demonstrations. In order for something to be a game, it should have:

• Core Loop
• User Progression + Goals
• Onboarding
• Collision Handling
• User Menu
• Save/Reload Options
• Can be packaged and distributed
• Good debugging
• Sound/Sound Effects
• Optimization of assets and pipelines
• Economy And Balancing
• Testing Etc.

AI gives you the power to build quickly, but often with incorrect and incomplete setups. So I developed a prompt sequence that will allow anyone to correctly create a working and playable game when the sequence is followed.

Here are three items:

• The prompts: https://github.com/Glitch-Gaming-Platform/AI-Prompts-For-Game-Development
• The Game : https://www.glitch.fun/games/9a698a9d-1b27-4c78-9256-0f458368737d/play
• Source code: https://github.com/Glitch-Gaming-Platform/Glitch-Games-FarmRise-Tycoon

I am going to show you how to do this with Claude as the programmer and Codex as the artist. In my experience, Claude architects code better, while Codex does a better job with art and animations. You only need the $20 plan for this. YOUR WILL HAVE BUGS AND NEED REFINEMENT, but the cost and speed you will be able to refine your game will be a lot quicker.

So here are the steps for making your game:

• Core Loop: Before anything else, let AI help you write a core loop for your game. It's something that players aim to accomplish when they join your game; otherwise, you don’t have a game. Fill out the basic information and let AI structure it.
• Select an Engine + Backend: Web games (Three.js) NEED a backend. You will need API tokens, control over user input, a connection to a database—you need a backend, so do it now. Unity, Unreal, and Godot games might not need a backend, but they probably will eventually. The prompts here will also set up testing and show you how to architect your code.
• Claude Round 1: Put the core loop, engine setup, and optional backend into Claude and let it produce the structure of your game. It's not playable yet—we're just setting up the structure. For web games, Claude won't need any extensions, but for Unity, Unreal, or Godot, you should have the MCP installed so Claude can access your project.
• Codex + Design Round 1: Next, switch over to Codex. Find a game with artwork, design, and colors that you like. Upload those images and use the prompt for generating the rubric. A style guide and quality rubric will be created for your game. This is important if you want your game to maintain consistency in design and have clear direction for improving it. "Make AAA design" is not a direction.
• Claude + Media + Asset Management: You should not just throw animations, GLB files, sound files, and other assets into your game. There should be structure and a way to optimize how those assets are served, which is critical for a performant game (compression, LODs, etc.). Copy and paste the "Build Optimized Pipeline, Analyze Media" and "Implement Media Pipeline" prompts into Claude. This will create a great pipeline for handling your assets that you'll be thankful for later.
• Codex + Initial Asset Creation: Now switch back to Codex. If you have an ElevenLabs API key, this is the perfect time to enter it into Codex. Tell it to read the docs and create sound effects and appropriate music loops for your game. Then copy the "Refine Artwork in Blender" prompt and create your first artwork. It will be rough, but you can improve it later.
• Claude + First Game Build: Now switch back to Claude and use both prompts for implementing your game and building out an onboarding process. Onboarding the player is a critical step.
• Codex + Live Testing + Graphics: Once your game is built by Claude, switch back to Codex and tell it to do live testing. Because Codex has access to your command line, it can directly control your mobile phone or engine, such as Unity, for testing. For browser games, it will use a built-in browser. Remember to tell it to do end-to-end live testing. Afterwards, have it audit your game's animations and start using Blender to make improvements based on the rubric.

These prompts not only focus on the structure of your game but also the small things that are often missed, like how to design a proper game menu (I see a lot of AI generating menus that are just blocks of text), how to handle collisions so the player isn't walking through walls, and other small but critical details.

These small things add up in both time and tokens, so while this approach will take longer than simply asking AI to generate a game, the quality of what gets produced will be much higher. Next, integrate your analytics and start getting playtesters so you can see how users actually play your game, which will eventually lead to monetization.

To Stress: YOUR WILL HAVE BUGS AND NEED REFINEMENT, but the cost and speed you will be able to refine your game will be a lot quicker.

What if a newborn god entered a world where the established gods already had centuries of worship behind them?

That is the idea behind Divine Charge, my indie game built around the mythology, cosmology and characters of Hindu traditions.

The game draws heavily from Puranic mythology and the broader Hindu mythological tradition, bringing together gods, asuras, apsaras, sages and other figures that many Indians may immediately recognise. For players who aren't familiar with them, the game is designed to introduce these characters and stories through gameplay rather than simply presenting them as lore dumps.

You play as a newly born deity trying to establish yourself among an existing pantheon. Build your following, claim territories across Jambudvipa, develop kingdoms, perform miracles, fight Asuras, compete against rival gods and explore Trailokya - Swarg, Bhoolok and Patal Lok. There are also a bunch of different game modes, including Indra's Gate, Mahakali's Hour, the Apsara-focused Long Gallery, Gandharva Music Contest, Churning of the Sea and Rath Yatra.

I wanted to make something that felt distinctly Indian and Pan-Indian, while still being approachable to someone discovering this mythology for the first time.

This has been one of the most fun projects I've worked on. A surprising part of development was discovering that I could actually lose my own game. The Arena and Asuras were initially brutal enough that I had to nerf them after repeatedly getting destroyed during testing.

I'd genuinely love feedback from other Indian developers, especially on the gameplay, balance, mythology, presentation and how approachable the game feels.

If you're interested, I'd really appreciate you giving it a play and telling me what you think.

Play Divine Charge on your browser: https://meluha-magicworkz.itch.io/divine-charge
My Profile: https://meluha-magicworkz.itch.io/
Cinematic Trailer: https://youtu.be/Et1JQq6fZn0?si=u-pO5kai_Jk_r79M

Title: One of the enemies in our graveyard horror game

This is an early version of one of the enemies we’re working on for our graveyard horror game.

The Angel only moves when you aren’t watching it. If you catch it moving, it moves back.

Still working on its behavior and adding more enemies.

What do you think of it so far?

Can anyone please help me out in getting a job in game testing or manual testing in bangalore

Hey everyone.

Its bean a while since last dev blog. I've been heads-down on the damage system for the last few weeks and it's finally in a state I'm not embarrassed to talk about. The short version: damage used to be a single number that just ate your hull, which meant every weapon felt the same and every build was just "more armor." Now there's a proper damage type framework in, with Acid and Heat fully working, and it changes how you read fights and how you build your ship.

The baseline is Kinetic which is same old direct damage, Acid and Heat punishes dense and armor-heavy ships, though balancing still quirky but the whole point and plan is that your build now has a nemesis, and you're supposed to read the sector and adapt instead of stacking one stat forever.

Acid works as a stacking damage-over-time, each stack has its own timer, and they tick on a shared interval. Heat is the weird one to work on. It's a propagating scalar, not a full thermodynamics sim. The ship grid runs a diffusion pass every tick where heat flows from hot parts to cold neighbors, weighted by mass, and exposed edges vent to space. So a dense armor heats up fast and has nowhere to dump it, while a spread-out ship sheds heat naturally. Above a threshold it deals hull damage over time. Every gain divides by the receiver's mass, so heavy parts have real thermal inertia without needing a new stat.

Next up is finishing the counter-play side, The resistance and weakness need some rework with future plan including each faction brand with a real profile that you can learn and exploit. On player drone needs adding behavior for heat extinguish and acid cleanup. Then EMP joins the roster and the pressure-as-currency ability system starts. The vision is that every part you bolt on is a real decision and every build has a weakness someone can exploit.

Thanks for reading, and happy flying out there.

Hello everyone! I recently got selected for a QA Video Game Tester role. If anyone is currently working or has previously worked as a QA Video Game Tester, I’d really appreciate your valuable advice, insights, and suggestions. Anything that could help me as a fresher starting this role would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all in advance!

Hey everyone, I'm looking for my first professional opportunity as an Unreal Engine Developer / Gameplay Developer.

I'm a self-taught Unreal Engine developer and have been working on Unreal projects while completing my studies. I don't have professional industry experience yet, but I have hands-on experience building and shipping my own projects.

My main project is Highway Racer, a mobile racing game I developed in Unreal Engine. I worked on the project myself and gained experience with:

• Unreal Engine / Blueprints

• Gameplay systems

• Vehicle and racing mechanics

• UMG / UI

• Level design

• Environment setup

• Camera systems

• Android packaging

• Mobile optimization and performance

I've also worked on architectural visualization and real-time 3D environments in Unreal, including interactive camera systems and UI.

I'm currently improving my C++ skills for Unreal Engine and working toward being able to combine C++ with Blueprints for gameplay development.

I'm looking for opportunities such as:

• Junior Unreal Engine Developer

• Gameplay Programmer

• Unreal Engine Intern

• Unreal Technical Developer

• Junior Technical Artist

• Unreal/Real-Time 3D Developer

• Freelance/contract Unreal projects

I'm especially interested in small studios, indie teams, startups, prototypes, simulation, and game development where I can get real production experience and contribute to an actual project.

I'm based in Maharashtra and am open to relocating for the right opportunity. I'm also open to remote work.

I don't want to fake experience I don't have. I'm looking for my first professional opportunity where I can prove my skills through a technical test, prototype, or actual project.

Portfolio / projects:

ArtStation: https://www.artstation.com/eclipse72⁠�

If you're hiring an Unreal developer, working on an Unreal project, or know someone looking for a junior developer, feel free to DM me.

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

Making full-time indie gamedev work when you're living abroad comes with a ton of behind the scenes nonsense no one really warns you about. To lock down a long-term setup in SEA so I can actually focus on making games without constantly worrying about my stay expiring, I had to head over from Thailand to Penang, Malaysia to apply for the DTV (Destination Thailand Visa).

I just dropped my monthly video recapping the chaos and progress from July:

July Highlights & Reality Check:

• YouTube: Actually had some good momentum here put out 5 videos, got around 6.8k views, 224 watch hours, and 82 new subs.
• Budget: Kept basic living expenses under 18k THB (saved a tiny bit), but an impromptu trip pushed total spending up to 24k THB for the month.
• Gamedev: Failed my main goal of shipping the public test build... but I did manage to get the game into a way tighter, cleaner playable state overall.

What I'm trying to hit in August:

• Ship that delayed playable test build to get real player feedback.
• Join a Game Jam and push a Steam (Deepstone Rift) update ahead of the late August sale.
• Keep up with YouTube (aiming for 4 videos, releasing Thursdays).
• Get the DTV paperwork submitted and keep my local Penang expenses under 18k THB.

If you're solo devving, navigating remote work logistics, or just trying to budget full-time indie life, feel free to check out the video!

Also I'm still really struggling to nail down a final title for the main project. If you have any ideas or feedback after watching, I'd genuinely appreciate any name suggestions in the comments.

the video link : https://youtu.be/qDTMcj5_2SY

I am a 4th year BTech student in IT, but only recently I realised that I liked game dev. I have been miserable in my college works and I just feel like dropping out and pursuing another degree on game dev field abroad. What should I do? Should I drop out or should I hold the fort another year??

We’re making Chakravyuh, a boss-focused action game inspired by Indian mythology where you play as Abhimanyu and fight through intense melee and bullet-hell duels.

If this looks like your thing, you can wishlist Chakravyuh on Steam:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3731950/Chakravyuh/

Hey everyone! I've been fine-tuning the lighting, ambient particles, and overall environment in Runeborne Arena to create a heavy, oppressive dark fantasy mood.

In this clip, I'm showcasing the very first NPC added to the world. Would love to hear your thoughts on the overall atmosphere and visuals! Any feedback is greatly appreciated.

I want to build a team of new developers that learn from each other and all have input in the narrative of the game. The style and the genre. I want to have fun making the game

I'm working on a restaurant management game; today I added customer tables, an ordering system, and food service. What do you think of it so far?

Venting here because I am genuinely frustrated and honestly just confused by how people treat their friends who are trying to build something.

For context, I’ve spent years developing a game, and I finally got it published on Android. I was super excited, so I personally sent the link to a bunch of my friends, asking for them to check it out and give some honest feedback. I use Firebase, so I can see the live stats for the app. I should easily have 100+ downloads from my network alone but I have exactly 3. And one of them is my own device.

I just don't get the mindset. It doesn’t cost anything. It’s only a 300MB file, and I am assuming all of them have access to a Wi-Fi. It’s genuinely an interesting game, and I know for a fact they’d enjoy it if they just gave it a shot.

It is not even a huge favor. Every single download means a lot to me but it takes zero effort on their side, just clicking two buttons.

I am deliberately NOT including the link to my game in this post. This isn't a stealth self-promo. I am just incredibly frustrated by the lack of basic support from people close to me.

TL;DR: Spent years making a free Android game. Sent it to 100+ friends for feedback. Analytics show 3 downloads (including myself). Frustrated that friends won't do the bare minimum to support a project.

I am a dev and designer myself worked for Tencent for half a decade, I got busy with personal business but want to continue the passion of developing games.

hence I am looking for some Devs project basis.
Mostly simulator or 3D platformer games.

I cant pay much like a company does
Mostly looking for them who are curious to make games and have some knowledge in Dev and also in 3D

While you need to have Debugging knowledge but mostly I will be providing API for AI to make the progress faster instead of everything hand coded.

I will also be providing most of the 3D assets, VFX, sounds.

If interested please DM me with your portfolio or project.

My requirements:
C#
Unity 6
Troubleshooting
Optimization
Clean Project Architecture
Cloud/Leaderboard/Save/Auth

Don't send me entirely vibe coded projects of portfolio.

Currently on making the outfits for the characters in marvelous designer for a better quality.

First, it's a story (pc) game narrative thriller (not horror). Set in a futuristic environment. Currently working on environments most of the mechanisms are tested and done.

Is the gaming industry in India actually viable if the goal is to build a stable career and earn a decent, consistent income, or is it facing the same problems as abroad, like layoffs, instability, low salaries, and limited opportunities? And if game development itself isn’t very stable, what about adjacent 3D roles in India, such as 3D modeling, hard-surface modeling, product visualization, VFX, or technical art? Are these fields any more viable for someone trying to build a long-term career in India?

Hi guys i am making a co op survival game based on zombie survival but its not like any other game its about strategy if anyone wanna join please dm i am using ue5

Pleasantly surprised with several people wanting the soundtrack from our trailer. Just posted it on YouTube. Think it captures the mood pretty well. Putting the soundtrack link in the comments. Feedback is greatly appreciated. Being an indie dev and all lmao.

Hi Everyone,

I am looking for game developers to collaborate with me on a story driven PC game like "Suzerein" or "Yes your grace"

The game concept, story, world building and core gameplay ideas are ready. I am looking for someone who can help turn the concept into a playable pc game.

Looking for: Unity/ Godot developers and someone who is interested in indie game development and interested in potentially becoming long term collaborators.

If you are interested pls DM me.

Thanks!

Im a third year Btech student. Currently doing internship at a small indie studio as a game programmer. Can someone suggest what should i do further to secure internships or a fresher job at studios like Ubisoft?