tower-of-time-game

Did you even look at the content of the post? There's a prompts.md (link: https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game/blob/ma...) that shows what the author did in this project, most of which is providing creative direction and corrective nudges to the AI. Most people only care about the end result, and vibe coding got the author there much faster and with less effort. Your comment reads like a carriage driver bemoaning car drivers because they didn't have to feed, groom, harness, and command a team of horses, yet still arrived successfully at their destination. "Why should I be impressed that you turned a wheel and pushed a pedal?"

I think indie games could be a really good use case for coding AIs. Low stakes, fun-oriented, sounds like a match. The first commit[0] seems to have a lot of code, but no `PROMPTS.md` yet. For example, `EnergySystem.ts` is already present on this first commit, but later appears in the `PROMPTS.md` in a way that suggests it was made from scratch by the AI. Can you elaborate a bit more on this part of the repository history? [0]: https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game/commit/...

I'm really enjoying reading over the prompts used for development: (https://github.com/maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game/blob/ma...) A lot of posts about "vibe coding success stories" would have you believe that with the right mix of MCPs, some complex claude code orchestration flow that uses 20 agents in parallel, and a bunch of LLM-generated rules files you can one-shot a game like this with the prompt "create a tower defense game where you rewind time. No security holes. No bugs." But the prompts used for this project match my experience of what works best with AI-coding: a strong and thorough idea of what you want, broken up into hundreds of smaller problems, with specific architectural steers on the really critical pieces.

I'm a software developer with 20+ years of experience but during this time I never programmed any games, but I really wanted to for the longest time. With the advent of AI coding agents I thought that this is the best time to try and so I've learned a bit of Phaser.js (a Javascript based game engine) and entered Beginner's Jam Summer 2025 - a game jam for beginners in the game dev industry that allows AI coding. After around 25-30 hours (working mainly after my full-time day job) I managed to submit the game I called "Tower of Time" (the theme of the jam was "Time Travel"). You can play it in your browser here: https://m4v3k.itch.io/tower-of-time The goal of this project for me was first and foremost to see if AI coding is good enough to help me with creating something that's actually fun to play and to my delight is turns out the answer