I'm having a very rewarding experience doing this mostly from scratch in Gamemaker using Claude.
When I see apps like this, I get the fear that it has those RPG maker vibes where all the games will be same-y. That Roblox / minecraft kind of lack of uniqueness that makes for a great mod-game, but it always harkens back to the same patterns you use in the game engine that start to bother gamers like me.
I'm working on a pixel RPG in gamemaker right now, using Claude as help, and I've developed a reasonably complex classic pixel RPG in less than a few weeks. I still had to constantly correct claude, but it was more often 10 steps forward and one step back. My whole engine and experience is mostly done, and now it's the fun part of designing the world.
I almost have an entire sheet of custom sprites I plan on offering as well.
I wouldn't trade my experience for some out of the box thing where I don't own a lot of the game's core content.
Google is allergic to normal interfaces nowadays. Everything about Material when it rolled out rubbed me the wrong way, Rounded edges? Extra real estate? Everything is bubbles.
I'll take cold, basic, and data-full interfaces instead of the wasted real estate in the era of CSS-ifying every user interaction to death.
The brand is still pretty dead. The antisocial strict community there deterred more conversations than they helped, and they are not asking those people to change.
Speculation is value now I guess. Also, it helps when every bad actor on earth is laundering money through it.
I hope for, and anticipate that crypto will be reigned-in and we will go back to more predictable currency. The spikes and drops of it make it much less of a currency, and more of a speculation market where everyone is going to lose big one day.
I am more of a "burn it all to the ground" type of person, but even I know that is true folly to even think that now.
It's a digital cancer that is metastasizing under this perfect storm (a US presidential administration keen on supporting it, easy manipulation of prices through painting the tape, a defanged SEC, etc) and there really isn't anything we can do about it but watch.
The only way anyone will learn is if massive tragedy struck or another major black swan... maybe... or maybe not.
Gold has a utility (or industrial) value. But that value is significantly lower than the actual price. The rest of the price of gold is monetary premium.
I say Bitcoin's large network, censorship resistance and worldwide adoption give it some base utility value. The rest is monetary premium.
I do agree with your sentiment. Stablecoins (UDSC, etc) are predictable and are much better suited for actual spending.
Monero is far better than stablecoins for spending as it leaves no trace of who got from who. Secondly, stablecoin wallets are heavily subject to being frozen, essentially the strictest form of censorship, resulting in a complete loss of funds, but this is not possible at all for Monero.
This is pretty much where we are. I wish it weren't so. But Wall Street has their claws firmly around BTC et al. They will never let go. There's no room for any kind of "innovation". They will suck retail dry and then move on.
Maybe therein is why it rarely follows my own project prompt instructions. I tell it to give me the whole code (no snippets), and not to make up new features, and it still barfs up refactoring and "optimizations" I didn't ask for, as well as "Put this into your script" with no specifics where the snippet lives.
Single tasks that are one-and-done are great, but when working on a project, it's exhausting the amount it just doesn't listen to you.
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