I’m vibe coding a game right now. It does not teach you how to make a game. When it makes really dumb choices about how to draw to the screen, you have to be smart enough to know how to correct its choices.
That said, it is AMAZING what it can come up with using just some prompting. I’ve found if you’re able give it proper guidance- “draw with an off-screen buffer”, “use blitting instead of keeping shapes in memory” then it pretty much knows what to do, but without the guidance, it’ll draw something, it may be in no way performant.
Now, you can use it as a tutor though if you prompt it to behave that way- tell it to not skip steps or assume you know anything and to explain what it’s doing as it does it and to give you examples. You can put that stuff in the steering documents.
For someone that knows a bit about how to do stuff from scratch, the bots can do a huge amount of busy work very fast and let you focus on the overall architecture or gameplay, that’s been amazing. But I can see that eventually I’m going to have to do some big refactoring sessions to comb the spaghetti.
I’m vibe coding a game right now. It does not teach you how to make a game. When it makes really dumb choices about how to draw to the screen, you have to be smart enough to know how to correct its choices.
That said, it is AMAZING what it can come up with using just some prompting. I’ve found if you’re able give it proper guidance- “draw with an off-screen buffer”, “use blitting instead of keeping shapes in memory” then it pretty much knows what to do, but without the guidance, it’ll draw something, it may be in no way performant.
Now, you can use it as a tutor though if you prompt it to behave that way- tell it to not skip steps or assume you know anything and to explain what it’s doing as it does it and to give you examples. You can put that stuff in the steering documents.
For someone that knows a bit about how to do stuff from scratch, the bots can do a huge amount of busy work very fast and let you focus on the overall architecture or gameplay, that’s been amazing. But I can see that eventually I’m going to have to do some big refactoring sessions to comb the spaghetti.