The innovation lies in making the whole loop available to an end user immediately, without them being a programmer. My grandma can build games using ChatGPT now.
Practical challenge with a $250 prize: Make a 2D isometric HTML+JS game (dealer's choice on library) in the next 48 hours that satisfies these modest random requirements:
A character walks around a big ornate classic library, pulling books from bookshelves looking for a special book that causes a shelf to rotate around and reveal a hidden room and treasure chest. The player can read the books and some are just filler but some have clues about the special book. If this can be done with art, animations, sound, UI, the usual stuff, I'll believe the parent poster's claim to be true.
As someone using LLM-based workflows daily to assist with personal and professional projects, I'll wager $250 that this is not possible.
Sounds like a comfy sequence in a larger game I would anticipate on replay. I put my own $250 on the table (given the prompt and process were forthcoming).
Look, I get the societal development that you can input narrative text and the code for this pops out is super neat.
But trying to be fair here, anyone would call this incomplete, right?
There are several obvious bugs in styling and interaction.
This example is exactly what I was expecting. An ephemeral, simple-yet-buggy single page that’s barely a game in common understanding.
That person, while maybe not actively programming things, does appear to have forked several repos on GitHub a decade ago. I would say that’s above the level of technical competence implied by the “my grandma” phrasing of the OP.
