Vivek Vidyasagaran

Ahh, the magic of tool calls

@jckdotim Sure!

@coziestsoup Hey @coziestsoup, I came across your vibe coded game Vibe Tank Arena and was genuinely impressed by the clever turn-based design. it was a simple but really fun! Can I send you a DM?

Spent some time reflecting on the game I made #vibejam - VibeTankArena (vibe-tank-arena.vercel.app). Some random thoughts:

A weird thing I'm noticing with ChatGPT Image gen - it seems to wash out details as you edit an image. Here I was trying to make a wizard char, but as I fixed the composition and made simple edits, it got rid of the details and made everything flat

@unicodeveloper @Railway @vercel Good point. I started off with Vercel and found out it doesn't support websockets out of the box, so went with whatever ChatGPT suggested for the server. Im on the free plan on Vercel and latency isn't an issue, so I'm not in a hurry to migrate.

@coziestsoup @Railway @vercel What’s stopping you from hosting both server and client with @Railway It’s easier, cheaper and it will make the interaction between client and server very fast because they will both be deployed in the same region Latency will be gone

Anyways, I want to keep experimenting with this idea of AI agents for games. I love this idea of AI breaking down larger directives into specific actions letting you play at a higher level of abstraction. Imagine an RTS game with actually intelligent units!

Third - It also struggled to understand the coordinate system. Even after I reminded it in the prompt, it would often confuse up and down. I think it has something to do with the fact that it treats the grid like an array? So it thinks down = y-axis -1. But it’s not consistent!

Here's the final version I submitted. Couldn't spend a whole lot of time on this, but vibe coding takes productivity to the next level. It's a fast-paced, turn-based tank dueling game. Both players enter their commands in the planning phase and watch them play out simultaneously.

If you have a few mins, try the game out here: vibe-tank-arena.vercel.app

So the final piece of this puzzle was asking chatgpt to generate another image from the back and using Trellis' multi-view generation. This also fixes minor artifacts like the shadow.

This workflow blew my mind in terms of how easy it is to go from idea to 3d model. I used it in my #vibejam game VibeTankArena, and it just worked! But I noticed an issue straight away - the model was very dark, though it looked alright in the image.