Fable: "you have Unity and access to MCP. I want you to build a game that is a unique twist on a FPS. You want the player to say "wow" & "so clever" and to enjoy the core gameplay loop"
WebGL: https://swapshot-void.netlify.app/
* It had no assets so the graphics are procedurally generated
*Cracks knuckles*
Positive users praise AI's ability to prototype playable FPS games like Swapshot from simple engine prompts with no assets, while some negative users question the multi-idea agent methods or worry AI will devalue artists' creativity.
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Full prompt: you have unity and access to an MCP server. I want you to build a game that is a unique twist on a FPS, with excellent graphics and such (download assets as needed). First generate 20 unique ideas, then figure out how to make the top 5 better, then pick one. you want the player to say "wow" and "so clever" and also to enjoy the core gameplay loopp. make this great.
Then I asked "cool, how do i make the game playable for others? Can we use Netlify?"
It suggested WebGL, and then I had to click a couple permissions and that was it
Fable: "you have Unity and access to MCP. I want you to build a game that is a unique twist on a FPS. You want the player to say "wow" & "so clever" and to enjoy the core gameplay loop"
WebGL: https://swapshot-void.netlify.app/
* It had no assets so the graphics are procedurally generated
@emollick The missing assets forced the agent to improvise. The real craft is auditing everything it silently decided for you - mechanics, feel, pacing - in the gaps of your prompt. Which choice made you say wow?
@emollick Transloc fragging was fun. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtTai1y_p1w) Between transloc, elevator job acceleration, impact hammer jumping, rocket jumping, and lots of teleporters... I miss the mobility that we pushed on back in UT.
@emollick Why would you want to ask an AI to make a game you had no input into?
@emollick One line to a running WebGL game is real, and a model told to make you say "wow" will nail the wow - which is the half of a game a demo clip can carry, never the core loop the same prompt asked for.
@emollick So it built a translocator? That was one of the first weapons we built for Unreal Tournament back in the day...
@ShiftingPathway For fun. I make a lot of games i have a lot of input into also
@EdKoai Your prompt is bad and the output sounds too Claude-y
@bonecompiler Has there been a game that entirely translocation based? Likely there was, but haven't played one.
@emollick job == jump
@emollick Curious how much of your rate limit this used up? Presume you’re in the Claude Max 20x plan, but this feels token heavy
@emollick Nice!
@emollick While I think this is super cool and I'm excited for most technical uses of AI, I'm also a bit ambivalent because video games aren't just a craft; they're art. So the easier it becomes to churn them out, the less we're going to value the actual artists who apply real creativity.
@emollick "No assets, procedurally generated" is doing a lot of quiet heavy lifting here. The gap between "build me a game" and a playable build used to be a studio and two years. Now it's a prompt and a coffee break.
@emollick cc @MatthieuTalbot à deux doigts de vibecoder unreal tournament
@emollick where's the tool ? which of the 100k Unity MCPs ?
@emollick wow, so clever
with some refinement it could be decent - reminds me of Messiah
@emollick This is the future of prototyping. Real engines + AI that can ship playable loops, not just pretty screenshots.
@emollick Until Overwatch came along, not many games used the translocator idea that I can think of.
@emollick Make your problems theirs 😭