Category: Game Development

Nothing useful in this post, just me rambling with myself while having fun. In the previous post Blazing fast game development using LLMs, I talked about a coding LLM called Codestral. Today I took my time to try the new Qwen Coder 32B from the Chinese tech giant Alibaba. Without pasting lots and lots of code, I wanted to share a couple examples it made.

In the first example I asked for another 2D pygame, this time a planet Earth, the Moon orbiting it, and a player controlled spaceship. The LLM delivered almost coherent code, with the only problem being a mixup with global/local variables and a sprite that rotated in the wrong direction and a request to add sprites, sprites that I shamelessly stole from the web.

As a follow up question I asked to add laser shooting. I ended up having this game.

I keep saying it: AI is advancing too fast, not keeping up will make us humans obsolete. While generative AI will not replace a skilled photographer, writer, or programmer, it’s already good enough to replace the hobbyist to low skilled ones. I used photographer, writer and programmer as example as I feel I’m in the hobby-low skilled range in all three categories and I’m sure AI can already replace people at my level. /Rant end

Today I’m sharing my latest conversation with a LLM, specifically Codestral in this case, about game development. I don’t label myself a game developer, I made a few over the years, I participated in Ludum Dare competitions, but it’s not one of my main hobbies.

My conversation started with a simple prompt like this:

Muu?: Don’t waste time talking, only code. Make a pygame pong game.

Codestral: Sure, here is a simple implementation of the classic Pong game using Pygame: