Okay were pretty much like a mini game studio at our house now! The kids and I are making our own games and having a blast.


Holy crap this is fun. It all started because I wanted to make a fun useless app that did random things for the kids when they typed in words (activate Llama mode, or flip the text upside down, etc) and it worked really well.

Then I thought okay maybe we will have 'make an app' Friday nights, where instead of playing board games, we each just make an app to solve a problem as a family and/or individually. So I made an app generator app with 3 spinning wheels that randomly gives you a goal to solve. And the first one it came up with was 'need to help ghosts who are bored with the secret sauce being 8-bit'.

So from that we tried to generate a game, and wow did it work well right off the bat! Iterations were simple, just ask/tell it what you want.

Then it got me thinking, I wonder how the kids would do on their own (they are 8 and 5).

So I set them up on the computer with a mic and Gemini on the desktop. And whatever game they wanted they could help create. A zombie survival game? No problem! Oh the zombies are too powerful, or I want an AK47 and the 'needle' gun from Men in Black. No problem!

It has only been a day but we are having so much fun as a family just creating things.

After school my eldest wants to make a hockey game, while my youngest is going to make a cruise ship game where you have to shoot sharks that are trying to attack the cruise ship (were going on our first cruise in Feb so he was inspired). I'm really excited to see what they come up with as I'm proving minimal imput.

Me? I wanted some pixel Conway game of life simulation but you also have god powers and can create the world and then watch how it evolves and mess with it. So I've been playing with that.

Anyways all this to say if you haven't tried making a game with Gemini 3 Pro yet, give it a shot!
Everything is done in Canvas and works on both mobile and desktop (though sometimes need adjustments for each).

Cheers,
Andrew

PS if anyone knows how to share these let me know. Would be fun to send to their games to their friends so they could play. I think I can download the HTML file, but can I just send that and they open it in the browser?

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