Claude Code for game development, from 50+ games
Claude Code builds every game in the vbgnt studio. Here is which engine to give it, how to set it up, and the failures that only show up in production.
From the workshop
How generative games actually get made.
Notes from building a studio where the brief is a sentence and the output is a playable build: what to put in a prompt, what the agent needs around it, how a build gets tested before you see it, and where the line sits on other people's worlds.
Workflow
Landscape
The best AI game generators in 2026, compared
Rosebud, Star, Astrocade, Tesana, GDevelop, Replit and vbgnt, judged on the same five questions, with every price taken from the vendor's own page.
Beginners
Vibe coding games: what two years of jams show
Yes, if it is small. Two Vibe Jams and nearly 2,000 games show what vibe coding makes, where it breaks, and how to do it so the game works.
Engine
Godot AI assistants and MCP servers, compared
Godot has no AI assistant of its own. Here is what the MCP servers, editor plugins and studios actually do, and how to tell a useful one from a chatbot.
Publishing
How much does it cost to publish a game in 2026?
Between nothing and $100 up front, then a share of sales. Every store's fee in one table, and the costs that are not on any pricing page.
Beginners
How to make a mobile game with AI, from app to store
Three routes, ending in three different places: a game inside an app, a web game on any phone, or a real app on Google Play and the App Store.
Feature
Building three web games with Claude Opus 5.5
Claude Opus 5.5 is now live in the studio model picker. On day one we used it to build Kartropolis, Cat Person, and Fat Bear Week.
Shipping
The first vbgnt games are live on the App Store and Google Play
Potion Pile and Nine Heavens Ascent were written, illustrated, playtested, packaged and listed by the studio, then submitted by one person who wrote none of their code. Here is the division of labour, the step that still needs a Mac, and the one thing the agent refused to fake.
Feature
Screenshots, store art and listing copy in one pass: the marketing kit
Tick the stores you want and the agent plays your game, captures real screenshots at every size they demand, composes the icons, capsules and feature graphics, and writes the listings within their limits. Browse the kit in the studio, download it as one zip, or publish the game's own page from it.
Feature
The games directory: every starred game, in one place
games.vbgnt.com now lists the games players starred across every arcade, ranked by what is being played this week, with search over titles, descriptions and styles. Opt-in per game, and your arcade stays exactly as it was.
Feature
Let your agents make games: vbgnt is now an MCP server
Connect Claude, Claude Code or any MCP client to your studio, sign in once, and your own agent can create games, follow the builds, manage your arcade and export the results from wherever you already talk to it.
Feature
See who played: private analytics for your arcade
Views, players, plays and playtime for every game on your arcade, split by platform, visible only to you. No cookies, no addresses kept, and nothing shown in public.
Feature
Play it with friends: online multiplayer in every vbgnt game
Ask for co-op or versus and the studio builds the lobby, the four-letter room codes and the invite links. One player hosts, the rest click a link, and the match runs browser to browser.
Shipping
How to export a vbgnt game for Windows, Mac, Linux, Android and iOS
The arcade plays the web build. Everything else starts in the Publish pane: tick the platforms, press Export, and a build machine does the rest while you keep working on the game.
Workflow
AI game development prompts: what 33 games taught us
We read back every prompt that built the games in the gallery: 236 of them across 33 projects. Here is the order that worked, and what to say at each step.
Workshop
The games in our screenshots didn't exist, so we built them
The five games on the homepage started as concept art with nothing behind it. We had briefs written from the images, ran them through the studio, and published the results at demo.vbgnt.com.
Landscape
Text to game AI: what the generators actually do
Four unrelated technologies are sold under one name, which is why the demos look impossible and the free tools feel like toys. Here is the actual taxonomy.
Beginners
How to make a game without coding in 2026
Three genuinely different routes now exist, and picking the wrong one for your project is the most common reason people give up in week two.
Engine
Can AI make a Godot game? What the ban covers
In June 2026 Godot banned AI-written code. It banned it from the engine's own repository, not from your project, and the distinction is the whole answer.
Craft
How to make game assets with AI: art, music, sound
Generating a good asset is easy. Generating a coherent set of four hundred is hard, and a game is made entirely of sets.
Shipping
Can you sell an AI-generated game on Steam?
Yes, with disclosure, and since January 2026 the rules no longer ask about the tools that wrote your code. What that means, and what it still covers.
Shipping
How to publish a Godot game on Steam
Steam will not take the web build, so the job starts with a desktop export. Then a $100 fee, a 30-day wait, and a store page that matters more than the game does.
Shipping
How to publish a Godot game on the iOS App Store
The export is routine. The review is not. Apple's guidelines are pointed at exactly the kind of small, quickly-made game a generative studio produces.
Shipping
How to publish a Godot game on Google Play
Twenty-five dollars, once, and no Mac required. Then the obstacle nobody sees coming: twelve real testers, for fourteen continuous days, before you can ship.
Shipping
How to publish a Godot game on itch.io
The only one of the four the studio can finish for you. No native build, no signing, no review, no fee. Create the page, tick a box, and the Publish pane pushes the build.
Thesis
Entertainment's next default is creation, not curation
For twenty years the interesting problem was finding something to play. The interesting problem now is that making one has become faster than searching.
Ethics
Generative games and other people's intellectual property
A machine good enough to build the game you're nostalgic for is good enough to build it too faithfully. That is a product decision long before it is a legal one.
Product
Everyone gets an arcade, nobody gets a feed
Your games land at your own address, laid out like a console dashboard. There is no algorithm in between, and that is a design decision, not a missing feature.
Platform
Why generated games belong in the browser
A game you have to install is a game nobody plays. The web build is the only target where "here, try this" is a link and not a favour.
Quality
The agent plays its own game before you do
A generated game that doesn't boot is worse than no game at all, because it costs you the ninety seconds it took to find out. So the build gets played automatically.
Architecture
What an AI game agent needs (not a bigger model)
Every model can write a game loop. Almost none of them can hand you something that runs. The gap between those two facts is the entire product.
Craft
How to prompt a game into existence
The difference between a generated game worth playing and a generated shell is almost entirely in the first two sentences. Here is what belongs in them.
Origin
I built a machine that makes games out of a sentence
The console I actually wanted didn't exist: one where the library is written on demand, in the fifteen minutes between having an idea and wanting to play it.