Programming games with ChatGPT

Everybody wants to…. write a game?

Count me in!

I have plenty of ideas, and long documents about games. One of those is HexMesh, aka Fiber Optics Tycoon.

ChatGPT offers really interesting speed-dating with a brain, that actually writes games. In other words, my world simply changed a lot due to the ability to just talk to ChatGPT, literally — and have it develop the code for the games.

There’s a few really interesting sort of emergent ideas from using this method.

ChatGPT allows iterative development. I haven’t tried yet CoPilot or any other ‘actual’ heavy-duty dev tools, so I’m kind of really really curious about what they would allow to do.

Even the free ChatGPT works very well. At least it gets going with the

1. There’s simply no barrier to starting coding
2. You can literally talk to ChatGPT and have it make you a working Python, Javascript, C, C# or even Simon’s Basic code!
3. Iterations are “cheap” to test. You can throw away code that doesn’t work.
4. You can always tune the code manually, in text, just like in traditional software development.