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Save and Load Game Progress Without Losing Data
Build a versioned save, validate it before loading and handle unavailable storage without breaking play.
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Reimagine a Game: six illustrated game-building guides
Five new practical guides, five playable recipes and five reverse-engineering workshops, with complete original source. Explore reverse engineering.
Search practical game recipes, first-build tutorials and free-versus-paid comparisons. Original mechanics, copy-ready AI prompts and links to the existing build journeys.
36 results · 8 complete game recipes
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Build an Inventory System: Stacks, Capacity and Safe Transfers
Make inventory transfers atomic so full bags, duplicate clicks and invalid quantities cannot create or destroy items.
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Add Mobile Controls That Stop When Your Finger Lifts
Use pointer ownership, cancellation and keyboard parity to prevent stuck movement in browser games.
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Make Readable Enemy AI With a Small State Machine
Build idle, chase, attack, recovery and dead states before adding navigation or complex behaviour trees.
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Profile Game Stutter Before Asking AI to Rewrite It
Measure frame-time tails, separate rendering from simulation and make one evidence-based performance change.
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GAME RECIPE · PROMPT + BUILD STAGES
Make a Platformer With Coyote Time and Jump Buffering
Build Beacon Hop: three platforms, readable landings, a forgiving jump and one reachable finish.
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Make a Tower Defense Game With Targeting, Gold and Waves
Build Lane Watch: three tower slots, eight enemies, limited gold and a defended exit.
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Make a Sokoban-Style Box Puzzle With Undo
Build Crate Key: grid movement, validated pushes, a solved state and a complete undo record.
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Make a Deckbuilding Battle: Energy, Block and Discard Piles
Build Paper Duel: a visible enemy intent, two card types and a small turn-based combat loop.
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Make a Top-Down Shooter With Safe Projectile Hits
Build Signal Sweep: normalised movement, rate-limited shots, enemy collisions and a finite wave.
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Read a Game Loop: Find Input, Updates and Rendering
Trace the original workshop from a button press to state mutation and a rendered frame.
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Understand a Save Format With Hex Bytes and Controlled Changes
Decode an original four-byte record, identify endianness and validate a proposed schema.
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Measure a Platformer Jump: Height, Airtime and Gravity
Use a deterministic movement trace to distinguish observations from a physics hypothesis.
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REVERSE ENGINEERING · OWNED PRACTICE CODE
Inspect Your Game’s Network Messages Without Trusting the Client
Study a small owned input protocol, sequence numbers and server-owned movement.
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REVERSE ENGINEERING · OWNED PRACTICE CODE
Ghidra for Beginners: Inspect Your Own Scoring Program
Compile an original C exercise, compare boundary outputs and follow a manual Ghidra analysis plan.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Sonic Unleashed Recompiled Explained: Build Your Own Speed Platformer
Meet the creators of the Sonic Unleashed PC port, understand static recompilation, then build an original speed platformer with free code, assets and AI.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Super Mario 64 PC Port: Ghostship Explained, Then Build Your Own Platformer
Meet Lywx and Harbour Masters’ Ghostship, check its real source and release, then build Clockwork Heights: an original collectible platformer with free code and an ambitious 3D development prompt.
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REIMAGINE A GAME · ORIGINAL CREATOR + BUILD
Budokai Tenkaichi 3 PC Port: BT3-Recomp Status and an Original Arena Build
See what z3xox and collaborators say BT3-Recomp does, check its experimental status and source, then build Aether Clash: an original arena-fighting rules example and a complete AI development plan.
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How to Make an Arena Fighter with AI: A Small 2D Game Recipe
Build one original platform arena, one fighter and one basic opponent. Follow five stages, copy the existing Quick Prompt, try BINX Brawl and improve your own version.
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Make Your First Unity Game Using AI: A Step-by-Step 2D Tutorial
Plan a small Unity game with AI, import complete starter scripts and free idle art, create a coin-collecting room, and learn movement, enemies, scoring and desktop builds.
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Make Your First Godot Game Using AI: A Step-by-Step 2D Tutorial
Import a complete original Godot project, learn scenes and GDScript, collect coins, avoid an enemy and test your first game before export.
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How to Make a Zombie Survival Game: Start With One Room
Plan movement, a readable enemy and a short survival loop before adding a large world.
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How to Make a 2D RPG: Your First Small Quest
Build one place, one character and one quest before investing in a full RPG world.
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Make a Browser Game Using AI: Build and Test Coin Dash
Build a playable Canvas game with movement, coins, enemies and touch controls. Follow real Forge screenshots, copy complete files and test one upgrade.
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How to Improve an AI-Generated Game: Diagnose, Fix and Test
Keep working code, diagnose one fault and compare a real Coin Dash timing upgrade. Follow exact steps, complete files and copyable debugging prompts.
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How to Build Your Own Game Engine Using AI: A Small 2D Core
Reuse a working browser game, split it into clear modules and run two rooms with optional sound and local checkpoints.
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How to Make a Multiplayer Game: Start With Two Players
Make a small local loop, then test server ownership and reconnects in one private room.
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Free Game Assets for Beginners: What to Check Before Downloading
Find useful creator-made packs and compare file formats, attribution and separate commercial rights.
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How to Improve Game Animations Without Rebuilding Your Game
Audit one movement transition, fix timing and check rigs before buying more clips.
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Free Game Engines for Beginners: Compare Your First Build
Compare editor, coding and browser-export needs before choosing an engine or paid licence.
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How to Make a Mario Kart-Style Game: Build an Original Kart Racer
Make an original Mario Kart-style racer with AI: steering, drifting, boosts and checkpoints. Run free browser source, then plan a 3D Godot game.
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How to Make a Pokémon-Style Game With AI — Free Monster-Catching RPG Tutorial + Playable Demo
Play BINXMON, then build your own original monster-catching RPG with AI. Follow free code, tall-grass maps, turn-based battles, capture rules and mobile controls.
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How to Use AI to Make a Game: From Forge Plan to Playable Build
Use AI to make a browser game: start with Forge’s Build a Game tool, copy prompts with free asset links, then build, debug and publish using visual steps.
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How to Make a Minecraft-Style Game: Start With a Small Block World
Make an original Minecraft-style block builder with AI: mining, inventory and placement. Test free 2D source before a bounded 3D Godot world.
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Game Reverse Engineering for Beginners: Code, Tools and a Practice Lab
Run Capstone’s unchanged example, inspect libsm64’s real-game simulation code and follow genuine source screenshots. Includes optional scoring practice and Ghidra guidance.
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How to Combine Two Games With AI — Make Your Own Game Mashup
Explore Mario in Elden Ring, Skyrim + Minecraft and creator-reported AI crossover mods. Follow credited creator code and real source screenshots, then try the optional original practice lab.
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