The Blog

Making games, minus the gatekeeping

Guides and essays on building video games with AI — and on the older, sturdier craft of being one person with an idea and the stubbornness to ship it.

How to Make Games with AI in 2026

The honest state of AI game development: what one sentence can build, the three routes in, and the prompt patterns that produce games people replay.

GUIDE · 8 MIN

The Easiest Way to Develop Video Games

Seven beginner paths ranked by time-to-playable — AI builders, Roblox, GDevelop, GameMaker, Scratch, Godot, Unity — and the trap they all share.

BEGINNER GUIDE · 7 MIN

Bring Your Video Game Ideas to Life!

A one-weekend plan: shape the idea Friday, build and revise Saturday, publish Sunday. Verb, pressure, twist — then type it in.

WEEKEND PLAN · 6 MIN

Make and Sell Your Own Video Game

Steam vs itch.io vs app stores vs browser arcades — fees, odds, and the shortest no-code path from idea to first sale.

CREATOR ECONOMY · 7 MIN

Become a Paid Game Developer!

The four ways people get paid to make games in 2026, with honest odds — and a 30-day plan that turns reps into a portfolio and first earnings.

CREATOR ECONOMY · 7 MIN

10 Best Indie Games Made by One Person

Stardew Valley, Undertale, Balatro, Animal Well, Cave Story… ten solo masterpieces and the lesson each one teaches anyone starting today.

INSPIRATION · 8 MIN

Games Made by One Person: Why Solo Development Works

Coherence, speed, permission to be weird — the structural reasons one-person games keep beating studios, and how AI just moved the line.

ESSAY · 7 MIN

Fable 5 Games: What People Are Building with Claude's Newest AI

No, there's no fifth Fable RPG — Fable 5 is Anthropic's newest model, and it writes complete 3D browser games. Here's what that looks like.

AI MODELS · 6 MIN

Base44 for Games: Meet Arcade Sandbox

Base44 turns prompts into apps. Arcade Sandbox does it for games — same magic, different machinery, plus an arcade full of players.

AI GAME BUILDING · 6 MIN

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