If you’ve ever wanted to make a video game, but you don’t know how, then this article is for you.
There’s an bot on Poe Ai called ‘Script Bot Creator’ and it can completely produce ai video games for you, based only on your description of it.
How does it work, how much does it cost, and are the games actually fun?
We’ll answer all of those questions, using the following four games, made within the last 24 hours, using only Script Bot Creator on Poe.
#1 – Blockbuster Quest
#2 – Overdrawn At The Memory Bank
#3 – Awe‑some Auroras
#4 – CrossBlock
Click a video game title above to jump to that section of the article.
Ai Video Game #1 – Blockbuster Quest
The first ai video game we’re looking at is called Blockbuster Quest (ai‑generated name), and it’s basically a top‑down video game where your character wants to rent a specific title at his local video‑rental store.
Click here to play Blockbuster Quest in your web browser.
The game‑aspect of Blockbuster Quest is that the store closes in 1 minute, so you have to rush to find your video rental among the aisles, and make sure to bring it to checkout counter before the store closes.
I had a few back‑and‑forth chats with Script‑Bot‑Creator, regarding how to improve the game’s controls, and make things easier to understand.
In my video‑playthrough, I get stuck on trying to find the specific movie title on my in‑game ‘rental list’, but it can be overcome easily with my sending a revision‑request prompt to Script‑Bot‑Creator.
It was fun to basically pretend to be a video game designer; I got to test out different ideas quickly, with no prior programing or coding knowledge needed.
Poe Compute Points spent: 672 points ($0.020)
Here’s the full chat link to my conversation with Script Bot Creator on Poe about this ai video game: https://poe.com/s/rSe5sPV6qBHX9X8jzmhx
Ai Video Game #2 – Overdrawn At The Memory Bank
While watching a New‑Years‑Eve livestream of the show Mystery Science Theater 3000, I saw a user comment that the movie being riffed would be better as a point‑and‑click video game.
So, I told Script Bot Creator to make an ‘adventure game’ about the movie being riffed in that MST3K episode, ‘Overdrawn At The Memory Bank’, and about 6 minutes later, the game was ready to be played.
Click here to play Overdrawn At The Memory Bank in your web browser.
I’d hoped to be able to share the game with those in the chat, by mentioning it’s URL, but YouTube chat wouldn’t allow any pasting of web‑links (which makes sense).
The game uses emojis for characters and objects, which was a clever way to save computing‑resources for our first‑draft version of the game.
I’ve played the game all the way to the end, and it’s pretty accurate to the movie, which is impressive.
Poe Compute Points spent: 726 points ($0.022)
This is a full chat link to my conversation with Script Bot Creator on Poe about this ai video game:: https://poe.com/s/KiN8FUwMpa2h7scp3Gal
Ai Video Game #3 – Awe‑some Auroras
I was talking with a friend recently about auroras, and how stronger solar activity means aurora effects can be seen at lower longitudes than normally possible.
I decided it would be fun to make a simulator game where the user directs solar energy rays at Earth, with the goal to make the greatest‑possible aurora effect for a set of observers on the planet’s surface.
Click here to play Awe‑Some Auroras in your web browser.
Since this was a simulator first, and a game second, I asked the Script Bot Creator to do research and verify that what it was simulating in the game was actually in‑line with real‑world physics.
I also asked Script Bot Creator to explain fully its programming, so that someone else could re‑build the app for themselves, if they wanted to.
Click here for Script Bot Creator’s full explanation of how the software was built, in plain English.
Poe Compute Points spent: 503 points ($0.015)
And included here is a full chat link to my conversation with Script Bot Creator on Poe about this ai video game / simulator: https://poe.com/s/L1hYE0no7tt7t0EbzenN
Ai Video Game #4 –CrossBlock
The final game I made with Script Bot Creator was a more satisfying result than the prior three, but that’s because I’d originally conceived of this game idea back in 2010, at the height of ‘iPhone App Mania’.
Back in 2010, I sat down and sketched out ideas for apps that seemed like they’d be profitable and fun, and one of them was a block‑elimination game called CrossBlock.
I designed the basic premise of the game, and I created the game assets, but I lacked ANY programming ability in 2010, so I basically could get no further on developing CrossBlock back then.
But, today, in this age of generative‑AI tools, I can take my semi‑abandoned project and give it to Script Bot Creator, and it will put the pieces into place for me!
Click here to play CrossBlock in your web browser.
I am quite impressed with the output of Script Bot Creator, relative to the CrossBlock game project.
It took my existing concept and made it work, and I gave it feedback to help increase the challenge, and to guide it in the creation of some new graphical elements.
The end result is a game that’s decently fun and could be developed further, for a nice, little 15‑second distraction game.
Poe Compute Points spent: 1,052 points ($0.032)
Summing Up Ai Videogames
As demonstrated, the Script-Bot-Creator on Poe Ai is capable of quickly drafting video games, based solely on a text prompt provided by the user.
It’s almost like you’ve got a magic ‘App Printer’ now; feed the App Printer your text prompts and out comes a completed app, ready to start using.
To me, it’s magic every time, and I can’t believe how accessible this technology is for the general population.
We’re all going to be making custom software apps for ourselves in 2030, and we won’t even realize we’re doing it. 🙂
Finally, here’s the complete chat link to my conversation with Script Bot Creator on Poe about this ai video game: https://poe.com/s/SnRFJ2lpmUzZtC3xwjKE