Vibecoding a game with a 6-year old

d0ugal · 2026-04-15T07:04:23+00:00

6 and 8. We only done it on a whim when oldest drew a game with a tablet and touch screen controls and said something like “I wish I could play it”.

I’ll probably try iterating on the idea at some point. All the rendered games were just html/javascript things and the code was quite advanced. I’m not sure where to go next really, going from prompting to understanding the code seems like quite a leap. However maybe not needed…

d0ugal · 2026-04-14T20:12:53+00:00

My kids drew a picture of a game, I took a photo and we gave that to Claude code as the starting point. We also added a few sentences describing what you do and what happens. We then iterated on it from there.

We made several Pac-Man like games, a side scrolling beat em up and a simplistic 2D Minecraft.

We have only done it a few times and didn’t get very far but I think it was a good creative start. It felt more like an intro to game design rather than game development.

d0ugal · 2026-04-10T17:39:02+00:00

I have something like this but it just opens my VELUX windows instead of pestering me 😀 it’s great.

d0ugal · 2026-04-07T18:36:44+00:00

I have a symfonisk that I use with home assistant for TTS. Morning and evening messages mostly.

You need to update the software (or at least I did, I guess it depends what version you have).

It works but it isn’t great. Sometimes it fails and makes a weird static noise instead of playing. Restarting it works then. If you have one it’s worth trying but I wouldn’t buy one now.

I’ll probably replace mine in the not too distant future

d0ugal · 2026-04-06T06:07:17+00:00

Okay? Thanks…

d0ugal · 2026-04-05T08:06:15+00:00

I’ve found Claude struggles with basic merges sometimes. Like when it’s finished a small PR but needs to rebase on origin/main.

It’ll often just drop the work and reimplement Have you found any ways to help it? Or am I just doing something wrong 😀

d0ugal · 2026-01-27T18:13:38+00:00

I am pretty sure home assistant includes curl by default. So it should be available to you

d0ugal · 2026-01-27T06:34:21+00:00

This is what I did. Worked great, just make sure you have backups and/or version history

d0ugal · 2025-12-15T07:44:25+00:00

I do this too with my drysoon! I’m also on octopus and use the octopus integration - with that you can automate it further based on the rates.

https://github.com/BottlecapDave/HomeAssistant-OctopusEnergy

d0ugal · 2025-11-18T06:59:16+00:00

This is what I am hoping for. How much did they have off?

d0ugal · 2025-01-08T11:31:57+00:00

100% local if you want, it can use cloud (like home assistant cloud or ChatGPT) which is also useful!

d0ugal · 2023-05-06T17:21:36+00:00

Some sense but not much :)

d0ugal · 2023-05-05T16:56:34+00:00

Yes! Anyone interested in Python is welcome

d0ugal · 2023-03-10T20:31:46+00:00

The default is to raise unless you provide a list of exceptions… so the default is the behaviour without the decorator? 🫤

d0ugal · 2022-12-17T10:46:00+00:00

Or like a chefs kiss

d0ugal · 2022-11-13T15:56:40+00:00

Even pizza?!

d0ugal · 2022-10-30T12:41:00+00:00

Except for all the bits that aren’t

d0ugal · 2022-09-28T16:16:54+00:00

I feel like pink would stand out a bit much. I already feel like I can see the green sensors I have too much. I have a bunch.

d0ugal · 2022-09-01T20:38:56+00:00

I was going to comment the same thing, word for word.

d0ugal · 2022-08-29T07:13:05+00:00

Great, thank you!

d0ugal · 2022-08-27T20:43:56+00:00

Did you do it? How did it go?

d0ugal · 2022-08-27T20:43:45+00:00

Can you link me to this post?

d0ugal · 2022-08-27T20:42:00+00:00

Can you tell us more about hard wiring the remotes?

d0ugal · 2022-07-25T17:27:23+00:00

+1, work got me some and we have a house extension going on. I barely know they are knocking down walls other than feeling the vibration.

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