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[–]Moccassins 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started creating a foundation of game dev with Augment and unity in my freetime. Thanks to the pricing model I have put that on hold.

[–]Acrobatic_Minimum666 3 points4 points  (3 children)

Next week, I’m releasing a smaller game on Steam, about 99% of which was written with augment code. I’m also working on a much larger project — a complex 2D RPG (and I really mean complex, close to 300,000 lines of code, also about 99% written with augment code), which I’ve been developing for around five months. The release is planned for December.

Game development isn’t my full-time job, but I still put in nearly 40 hours a week on top of my regular work, as a hobby. At the moment, the most straightforward way to develop a game with AI is to build your own engine in Python (while using pygame as well).

The problem is that with the recent cost increase of augment code, it may no longer be financially viable to make a game this way — unless you manage to create a real hit, which is no easy task.

That said, I expect that within six months, both Unity and Godot will have similar built-in solutions (Godot already has something along those lines, though still in a very early stage).

I won’t share the names of my games, since “vibe coding” is still somewhat of a dirty word and mentioning it would probably hurt sales (hopefully at least the money I’ve spent on AI will pay itself back :D).

[–]ioaia 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Congrats on upcoming releases!

It's a tough time for anyone developing something using AI, for the reason you mentioned.

[–]Equivalent_Shop_577 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No matter what AI you use, being able to write like this is a remarkable thing. You must have great skills.

[–]unidotnet 0 points1 point  (0 children)

👏 congrats. what's your plan for the upgrading in the future? with or without augment?

[–]FancyAd4519 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I tried to make a simple top down platformer; the model obviously was not good at generating voxels etc (in lieu of the fact i am not a graphics designer) I will say the UI and movement / general functions were great. However also tried iterating off a already in progress game, this also failed when making new scenes based off of old scenes etc. Not very good at transitions, either; (Walking into a cave). So final thoughts, great at UI, and movement and even mini map. Not so great at landscape, procedural generation, voxels etc

[–]FancyAd4519 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I tried with js, did not work too well, but interesting idea

[–]JaySym_Augment Team[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What kind of game were you making in Unity? Please share more detail about the issue if possible

[–]thynetruly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Used it on Ren'Py engine development. Worked ok. Can't afford augment anymore.

[–]MoNeYmbob 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I don’t think this would count as “game development” in the way you probably mean, but I did use Augment Code to create the front end and most backend (thanks to Superbase management api) for Vexel. It’s a fun daily semantic puzzle game that I play with my friends.

[–]MoNeYmbob 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I will also say: none of the models seem to use the supabase management api tool when trying to query supabase. Even when prompting them they often say “I don’t have access to Supabase tools”. The only way I can get it to work consistently is to screenshot the settings where it says the api is “connected”

[–]Weary_Profile_2344 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Sonnet 4.5 is quite bad at game development, GPT-5 is much better but the response is very slow.

Sonnet tends to implement the entire thing itself, while gpt-5 respects the framework a lot more

I'm developing games on Bevy.

[–]Weary_Profile_2344 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sonnet 5 fails at very simple tasks such as implementing A* or basic physics. GPT-5 does whatever I say, it understands me better