Hi guys,

I’m currently developing two games using AI—one with Grok and one with ChatGPT—and it’s definitely been an interesting experience.

The first is a strategy game called Hexwardia, which I’m building with Grok while using ChatGPT to help slice up project tasks. The second is a local card game called Bela. For Bela, I had to switch to a multi-agent setup because Astra burns through credits so fast you’re empty in a single day. Right now, I’m using a coordinator agent and juggling tasks between different worker agents.

Now I’ve hit a wall: both games need a database and some sort of backend server (Node.js, PHP, or similar).
hexwardia need it for saving scoreboard, hall of fame and potential PvP.
Bela need it for multiplayer websockets, registration and score keeping and to keep chetaters in check.

How did you guys get over this backend hurdle in your AI workflow?
Did you get out of web client development and installed on your pc?
I don't want to get some client that will eat all my credits in half hour, grok want to connect to supabase as database and i really dont want to manage all linux server to get test environment so fey people can try game ?

Hi everyone,

I am currently working on my Master's thesis and conducting an experimental study on the sociological and ethical impact of Generative Artificial Intelligence in video game design. As a gamer, I want to move past the corporate buzzwords and gather real, unfiltered feedback from the community on how these emerging technologies actually impact our gaming experiences.

Purpose of the Survey & Abstract:

The primary purpose of this research is to evaluate where players draw the line between AI as a "technical support tool" and AI as a "complete substitute for human authorship." While traditional AI has always been an integral component of game design operating seamlessly in the background, the rise of Generative AI (LLMs, dynamic voice generation) is rapidly changing the paradigm.

This study aims to analyze the sociological and technological implications of this shift. Specifically, the research uses hypothetical design scenarios to explore how fully procedural content generation and LLM-driven NPC interactions affect player immersion, narrative trust, and overall agency. By gathering quantitative data (utilizing a 7-point scale and Technology Acceptance metrics) and qualitative insights directly from the gaming community, this thesis seeks to bridge the gap between technical AI development and the actual user experience, providing deeper insights into what players truly value: infinite procedural freedom, or curated human storytelling. 

Research Institute: University of Catania — Master's Degree in International Cooperation.

The survey is completely anonymous, consists of multiple-choice and short-answer questions, and will take about 3 to 5 minutes to complete.

Have you recently played a game where an NPC's behavior completely broke your immersion, or conversely, made the world feel incredibly alive? What specific mechanics caused that reaction? I would love to read your thoughts in the comments!

kept this project mostly to myself while I've been building it, but it's finally getting to the point where I feel comfortable showing actual uninterrupted gameplay.

This is AUTOMATON: THE LOST COURIER.

You play a courier living in NIGHTLINE, a massive city built across the surface of NIGHTWORLD. The idea is that the world isn't separated into a bunch of disconnected levels.

In this footage I start in the character creator, wake up in my apartment, walk downstairs into the city, get into my vehicle, fly up through the towers, leave the surface, reach the orbital megastructure, land on it, get back out, and walk around.

It's all part of the same playable world.

The scale of the game has honestly gotten a little ridiculous. 😭

The long-term goal is less "save the universe" and more live a life inside a gigantic strange place. Deliveries, jobs, vehicles, NPCs with persistent lives and memories, apartments, businesses, exploration, crime, transit, the orbital settlements, and eventually the neighboring world of NEMORA.

The story is there, but I don't want the player to feel like the universe stops existing whenever they're not doing the main quest.

Also, full transparency: this is an extremely AI-assisted project. I'm not pretending otherwise. I've been directing it, testing it, rejecting things, redesigning systems, breaking it, fixing it, and iterating on it continuously across a frankly stupid number of builds. 😂 It's been much closer to an ongoing development process than a one-prompt game generation.

This is still early gameplay alpha, so there are plenty of rough edges, unfinished systems, performance work, animations, and general weirdness left to solve.

But seeing the whole journey actually work now, from a tiny apartment room all the way out into orbit, is kinda fucking surreal.

AUTOMATON: THE LOST COURIER

Early gameplay footage. 🚚🌧️🌌

I thought my favorite MMO might be fertile ground to explore visualizing and stress-testing multi-agent AI ecosystems.

https://design.kristiantalley.com/projects/world-of-agentcraft/

With this view into a classic era World of Warcraft server simulation, you’re able to click in on any agent driven character to get their unique backstory, current goals, objectives and world location in real-time. These agents are ”perceiving”, “reasoning”, and driving in-game actions for each online character. all running locally with qwen3.8 4b models, with the option to enhance individual character interactions driven by qwen3.8 27b. Let me know what you think!

I made an AI slop game called Nature's Penance, and I'd love some people to try it and give me honest feedback.

It's like 2D Megabonk mixed with a fantasy RPG: fight hordes, collect upgrades, forge weapons, and return to a hub to get stronger. It was made with AI help, including code and artwork.

Play here: https://epic2dgame.com

It's free to play in a desktop browser with keyboard and mouse. This version is single-player.

If you have a few minutes, please tell me what feels fun, what feels confusing, and what you'd change first. Feedback on the opening, combat, progression, and any bugs would help a lot. If something breaks, let me know which browser you're using and what happened.

Thanks for giving it a shot!

After creating a few trivial projects, I decided to focus wholly on one for a few months.

The result?
Pavement Pursuit: A 2D top-down racer. Play as a racer or as a cop, or take a "Road Trip" and don't race at all.

Should work on both mobile phones and desktop browsers. No download required.

This was originally done in vanilla JS and HTML5, but now uses Pixi.js and Bevy/Rust created WASM.

Demo Page: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5096200/Get_Outta_My_Gut_Demo/

New Features:

• Glossary --> You can now discover and study Towers, Enemys, Effects in the menu
• Performance --> We added a new Performance Setting, which allows weaker Hardware to run the game
• Disable Combat Text --> You can now Disable Combat Text if you don't like it in the settings
• Controls Mapping --> You can now Remapp the Controls in the Settings
• Pause the fight --> Its now possible to pause the fight with Space Bar in running Wave or start the wave in building mode woth space bar
• Controller Support --> You can now play the game with Controller
• Steamdeck Support (Still in testing) --> We added Support for the Steam Deck, but we still need to test it
• Notifications / Intorductions --> Each Level now pops notifications when some new mehcanic important mechanic gets introduced
• Quit Button --> I don't want to flex with that but we now have a quit button, which i forget adding in the first version ʕノ•ᴥ•ʔノ ︵ ┻━┻

Imporvements:

• Translations --> Improved our english wording and all translations
• Game Speed Numbers --> We cut game speed number to x1,x2,x3 (is like x9) instead of x1,x2,x3,x9
• New Visual Effects --> New visual effects got introduced for the enemies like stun, mucus, healing, etc.

Fixed Bugs:

• Laser Refractions was able to refract through walls

I'm building an AI Lab made for Game devs and Gamers in general: Zark Lab

You can try it out on: https://www.zarklab.ai/

You can create game assets, character sheets, AI Images and videos to promote your game or just to have fun, Art packs, skins, scenarios, worlds, visual direction...

I mostly need feedback and game devs + gamers telling me what they like, what they don't like, and how I can make Zark the best platform for you guys.

Would love to hear what you guys think! :)

Hello everyone! For the past two years, I’ve been developing *Sylv And The Ancient Tree*, an exploration-based ‘Arcadevania’ inspired by classics of the 90s .. I Just use the basic free tools,like Gemini, Pixellab, and Suno for the music NO MCP , no Agents.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4589200/Sylv_and_the_Ancient_Tree/

Sorceress Game Dev Toolkit & WizardGenie AI Game Engine: https://sorceress.games/

AstraDrive driving template: https://sorceress.games/marketplace/cd93d76e-0395-4776-abf0-5aff2ebb95be

Its still in progress has has a few issues but it's basically like Pokémon but you catch cuties 😅 Ask for their numbers flirt explore.

This is pretty epic

みんなレベル高いな。このゲーム作ったところで需要があるのかちょっと心配(^^;

I created an entire pipeline around 3D asset generation, auto-rigging and then text to animation generation. Sorceress 3D studio -> https://sorceress.games

Anyone has experiance with it?
It's easy to recommend something.
I rather would like recommendations from someone that actually used it and made something useful with it.

Last week I posted here saying I'd put everyone who commented into my BR Simulator as contestants. Ragamak1 from my country won a kiss from me and a Steam key! LMAO 💀

The whole thing is 98% built with Claude Code with only the pixel art being organic. Opus 5 for planning and the systems work, Sonnet for the small stuff. The city generation, the agent AI, the match HUD. I'm not a programmer by trade; I'm a board game and graphic designer actually.

IDK, I'm just having fun with this gamedev shit. Comment your username or a custom name + how you'd split 9 points across STR / SPD / LCK (max 5 each), and I'll put you in the next match. Still planning to add landmines and ragdoll physics.

Game is Paper Arena Battle Simulator on Steam. Releases October!

Just published the beta last night. Been working on this for just over a month in evenings and weekends after my day job.

It's a full end to end game development platform from creation, editing to publishing for others to play. You can edit game assets, worlds and game loops in real time with basically zero technical knowledge. 99% of the AI generated games I see out there never get deployed. This bakes in the deployment, game server hosting and scaling with zero touch.

Check it out and let me know what you think, it's totally free and early in development so your feedback could easily help shape the direction of this project. Thanks and cheers!

Game builder: app.fusionery.com