VIBE CODING A COOL VIDEO GAME (Grok 3 + Claude 3.7)

0:00what if you can create video games using AI well now you can grock 3 just came out Sonic 37 just came out and today's episode is all about using Technologies like that to create high quality games that are going to go viral on social platforms so today's episode uh step by step how to do it how to use cursor to do it we integrate with superbase uh and I bring on this guy named Alex Finn who's gone viral uh millions and millions of Impressions about some of the games that he has created using Ai and just a few prompts so enjoy the [Music] episode this is a big day we got Alex

0:53Finn on the Pod if you don't know Alex well he's been going absolutely viral because he's been using platforms like grock couple prompts and he's just like building video games so Alex what are we going to learn today we are going to learn how to use AI apps as a way to growth hack any product you have uh I've been building AI games like the last eight months now going really viral on X which is amazing uh which has led to good growth for my newsletter which has led to good growth for my AI app that I launched um and it's through this whole new concept of like using AI apps and

1:33content to drive attention to your product so we're gonna we're going to build some cool things say on top of that show you how to grow your business with it so by the end of this pod what is like what are some tactical things that people are going to learn you are going to learn no matter what your experience level is when it comes to code or programming or marketing or anything how to build really cool micro apps and how to use those micro apps to drive newsletter signups to drive app purchases to drive more revenue and to drive more attention to your social media basically boost everything with

2:07cool new AI strategies and are we are we building games is that what we're building yeah so I found just through experimentation that games seem to be the most eye-catching uh hook for people and so I've been over the last eight or nine months since cursor came out building all kinds of different apps and creating content around whether it's games uh micro to-do list apps things like that but every time I put out like kind of a game like oh I built a Call of Duty clone or oh I built a grand theft autoc clone it seems that's what gets the clicks and so I figured out a way to

2:43kind of insert that into my marketing funnel for my products and newsletters uh and drive attention that way I mean I've I've gotten multiple retweets now from Elon which has driven tons of amazing traffic so these are some pretty cool strategies I I've been testing out for a while now all right let's get into it Alex let's do it so the plant let me first show you an example of what I've done up to this point I'm going to show you how to do so let me show my window here uh so the first time I tested this strategy is with the game you see here I call

3:14this a Call of Duty clone a top down 2D call Call of Duty clone uh where you can control the player in the middle you can shoot enemies things like that uh and then when you die it says game over you're on the leaderboard enter your initials and so I experimented with this about eight months ago where I said hey I built my first video game through cursor I have no game building experience uh play the game below Whoever has the highest score in the next 24 hours I'm sending you $100 right and so I put that on my ex I posted it out uh got a ton of clicks and attention

3:47because you know people are so into AI content right now and this drove about 500 signups to my newsletter which is amazing right and the way people really have been driving clicks to newsletter over the last couple years is they build like a really good thread and then they have a follow post that says here's my newsletter sign up for it and that's kind of been drowned out and everyone's doing it and it's kind of you know filtered watered down right and so to really stand out in the marketplace you have to do different things you have to try new things and so I've tried this

4:18new strategy of you know using AI content things people are really into to drive signups and drive clicks it's been working spectacularly well so that's what I'm going to show you how to do here today cool let's do it by the way I do agree with you like you know when I when I see on X for example like tweet goes viral and then the second tweet is like for more of this go and you know subscribe to my newsletter like that's not working it's not working anymore no I I started my newsletter three years ago I'm up to 30,000 subscribers now and like it was growing like hot cakes three

4:50years ago when I was doing that strategy of like write like a thread and then say hey sign up for more everyone in their mothers is doing it now my grandma is signing like writing threads and saying sign up for my newsletter now like no one clicks that anymore so you have to like stay on the bleeding edge and do cool new things and I don't see anyone else doing this I'm sure in three years everyone's going to be doing this but this is like a really powerful strategy I think people trying to stay on the bleeding edge can do cool you heard it here first let's let's get into it so

5:19here's the plan I am going to use uh grock here so we're going to use grock grock is kind of the newest AI model everyone's using uh it's super super powerful it has really amazing tools that you can use for free right now deep search and think I'm going to show you how to use those two to build kind of your V1 of the game we're going to integrate it with superbase inside of cursor so that you have somewhere to store your emails right uh and then I'll show you how to launch it live on the internet so you can post it on your X and within two hours you'll have uh an

5:51incredibly powerful lead gen for your newsletter or app or whatever you're building cool quick break in the Pod to tell you a little bit about startup Empire so startup Empire is my private membership where it's a bunch of people like me like you who want to build out their startup ideas now they're looking for content to help accelerate that they're looking for potential co-founders they're looking for uh tutorials from people like me to come in and tell them how do you do email marketing how do you build an audience how do you go viral on Twitter all these different things that's exactly what startup Empire is and it's for people

6:33who want to start a startup but are looking for ideas or it's for people who have a startup but just they're not seeing the traction uh that they need so you can check out the link to Startup empire.co in the description so as a quick intro to grock you can go gro.com uh I believe it's these are completely free right now but like a limited use but as long as you have a blue check on X you get more use out of it you get deep search and you get think which with Chad GPT this cost $200 you get this basic I think for free with grock which

7:08is amazing we're going to do deep search to build the plan for the game so what deep search is really good at is kind of scouring the web doing research figuring out how things work and putting together a plan and then we're going to use think which is their reasoning model to actually execute on the plan and build the code right so deep search is really good at doing the research building the plan think is really good at executing on the plan so with that being said uh I got a prompt here so I don't have to sit here for 50 minutes and have a bunch of typos

7:40and bore the the audience uh I just copied and pasted from Apple notes design a p5js implementation p5js is a really cool uh gaming JavaScript framework free to use it has an excellent website where you can just test things out really quick uh implementation of a space shooting game I feel like people everyone gets space shooting games right everyone understands you don't have to have instructions for a space shooting game you control the ship and you kill things um it must be extremely polished and I want you to build all the Sprites and assets yourself I don't want to import any assets so this will make it easier

8:15for us so we don't have to like go on the web and search for open- Source pictures of spaceships we'll just have grock build everything for us so we'll make sure we have deep search selected and we'll hit enter okay question on the p5js implementation just cuz I've never built a game before um is that something that you figured out you know do you have yeah just give me context around every game am I building am I using that like I I I just don't I don't understand you really can use anything you want to build games like you can use uh Peter levels just came out with a

8:54great uh flying uh simulator that he built with pure vanilla JavaScript right so you really can build anything with any framework you want but for like Stone Cold beginners like me for instance I like to use built out Frameworks already and the reason why I like P5 JJs is you can test the game quicker than any other framework I've seen so far uh because they have this awesome website p5js dorg where you can just click Start coding you can paste in your code and hit play and you just instantly have the game going on your screen so this is found the best way to kind of prototype games and then you can

9:33take this and put in cursor and make it more advanced which we'll do in a second cool so what's great about grock in both the Deep research and the thinking uh grock was unable to finish replying it's beta it's beta what great about Gro is it didn't work here my favorite part about grock is it just doesn't complete the tasks at all uh we'll do this again it's and again it's cool cuz when you if you've used uh GPT Pro the the $200 version when you hit a prompt I can go and like make lunch and then come back and it's still running and it's like just painfully

10:13slow grock's amazing because it can do pretty much anything in like under a minute uh the speed of grock is unbelievable for the quality the output it gives you um and also the The Chain of Thought it shows you is way more detailed than GPT as well which is really cool to look at as it's going through so it's going through the game design it's looking at how other game Shooters on the internet work it's it's looking through different examples on p5js on how the code works on there uh it's looking at how to drawing techniques for Sprites on uh TS plus.com don't even know what that is uh just

10:49found interesting results on drawing spaceship so it's researching how to draw each Sprite I'm thinking about making a spaceship a rectangle with a triangle wings and thrusters in the back so it's it's really awesome uh to read through this to see how it works you can see browsing for other example code it can use and it's basically going to design this game for us it's designing like the physics and like where the ship moves as it's going around it's cool to see how this works and at the end of this what it's going to have uh very very shortly is the entire design for the app right so

11:26it's going to have how the spaceships move what the space ship look like with the enemies uh how the enemies work how often they shoot how they die how everything's determined you know implementing Collision detection defining the enemy class writing the pseudo code and then we're going to take this we're going to put it into the think mode and it's going to build us the code uh you know really nicely and really quickly so they they work really well together the two grock modes enhancing the visual effects here finalizing the it's it's really I love that at Deep seek if deep seek did anything well it kind of set the tone

12:03for like okay now all the other AI models have to put the chain of thought in because this is what people expect now I really think deep seek had like huge influence in how all this works all right so here we go it has the plan right game overview asset creation gameplay mechanics how everything works uh detailed implementation of how it works the background the bullets everything so what we're going to do now is like the colors of all the assets we're going to switch to think mode I'm going to pull in my handy uh prompt over here paste it in and we're going to say

12:42now create a code block with the entire correct code please ensure you're making all your own assets and Sprites and I don't have to import any hit enter on that and so now the think tool which is like I I I visualize as like the Deep search is my like senior researcher who's like gathering information and doing all the scouting and then the think is like the executor it's like the the programmer fore that's going taking that plan and actually executing for you and you can see here it's now going taking that plan and putting into the actual code itself and grock as of recording this is

13:22completely free is that right yes so there is a free version for grock 3 right now which you do get to test test out deep search and think uh if you pay for the premium version of X where you get the check mark you get significantly higher usage uh of the app which the app is I think the best UI of any AI app out there right now incredibly easy to use I think it's worth it because then you can also make money on X and stuff like that but there is a free version where you can test this out now which I don't think any other app like GPT doesn't

13:55allow you to use the search like the Deep search stuff for uh for free so pretty cool so we can see here here's the complete code and what I'll show you which is why I like p5js so much is I can just copy paste this and test it in seconds I don't even need like an IDE uh to see what this plays and looks like and then we can move this into cursor and actually do uh some of the cool stuff like implementing the database implementing the leaderboard and all that so let's take this put in a p5js hit play Boom first try game over so sometimes you know it's

14:39not the best uh working wise on the first go but I mean for a first go we got the bones of a good game here it also has like the Hamas triangle like coming down on you it's like you trying to kill the Hamas Tri triangle that is listen if you want to add a little extra motiv to the game you can certainly imagine the other spaceships as terrorists that's totally up to you listen that might be a good way if you're trying to make a political statement on X turn this game into you know where you're hunting your enemies that might be a cool way to do this I mean talk about

15:15something that would go viral so I was actually planning surprise at the end here I'm going to do a spoiler on surprise now we're thinking you're thinking five light years ahead now you can use this to turn memes and trending jokes into experience in games as well I turned uh the Mitch McConnell meme of him freezing on stage into a playable game as well where you try to avoid staircases uh and collect money and so this went super viral a few days ago because I took a meme and a joke that was working really well in the moment and just turned it into a game and launched it on my a so a little

15:52spooler what's coming at the end anyway uh so we got the bones of a game here right so let's take this let's take this game we'll copy this I'll stop let's let's actually do one more thing okay I want to import this into cursor how do I set up the file system to get this to work so like here's something whenever I put out these types of tutorials on X as well or proud videos I immediately get okay how do I launch this how do I edit this how do I do this my response is always the same just ask the AI it'll tell you how

16:33to do it and so if you want to do something like take your code from grock put it in a cursor put in whatever code editor you want just ask how to do it it'll tell you how to do it so we're going to do that now I got cursor up we're going to use Sonet 37 which just launched this morning which is going to be sick we'll try that out and we'll have a cool game going we're using all the Cool Tools right now all the hot stuff we are SEO stuffing the hell out of this video YouTube's algorithm is going to just be putting this in front of everyone on

17:02planet Earth after they scan through what we're saying okay let's see okay so create a project directory create the HTML file and create the Javascript file and Run the game all right I'm going to switch over to curse now and we'll start building this out I'll follow these instructions so share and while you're doing this like what level of developer would you say you are uh I'm going to be honest I am a advanced developer I've been coding my whole career I have a computer science degree um I was a developer right out of school so I am really experienced in coding I just launched an AI app I built

17:42my entire self so I know coding really well um but I will say this I've been using AI non-stop for a couple years now you don't need any experience to do this what I'm showing you here like I'm showing you from beginning to end everything you need to do to launch a game and I would argue nothing I've done so far is very technically sophisticated or any sort of experiences required you know AI is that advanced now where like if there's any gaps in your knowledge you have you just say hey how do I do this and it'll fill that gap for you so I really don't think you need like

18:17Advanced knowledge to do this cool that's what we like to hear on this channel exactly exactly um I got cursor open so I'm going to over on the side of my screen I have grock still open I'm going to follow the instructions I'll walk you through it uh so first thing we're going to do is create a directory so let's create a new folder um we oh oh actually no we already got the space game folder so let's make the HTML file so we'll do new file and and again all I'm doing is just following step by step everything grock is telling me so it says make this

18:57file copy in this code for the HTML save uh and then create the JavaScript file so create a file named sketch. Js sketch. Js boom uh open sketch. JS and paste the code in so let's take our game code paste this in save boom and then let us run the game to run the game open index.html in a web browser so okay so I'm going to off my screen here double click on index.html and then I will show you my screen to show you to prove that grock knows what the hell it's talking about here so screen window boom so here's the game Let's refresh this as you can see it is

19:54working just as grock directed okay let's go back in a cursor not I mean you would Greg you would say that this is all technically pretty simple so far no JavaScript coding knowledge necessary right yes yes no I'll be honest with you I was sad to hear that you're such an advanced person and then you got to hit me with the end I have a computer science degree but you redeemed yourself when you're showing me this is this is anyone could do this listen it it does I'll say this kind of hurt the narrative uh that I'm trying to tell you here by saying oh I'm a genius but I will say

20:35that I listen I could Li and say I don't know what the hell I'm doing here but I will say this I'm showing you how there's no I'm not writing any code here there at no point during this while I write code so trust me you don't need a computer science degree to do this all right cursor we're in cursor no matter I I swear to God I updated cursor 13 seconds before this podcast started it's already got an update anyway uh we're in cursor uh open up the sidebar you get your composer if you're watching Greg's Channel I'm sure you've you know what the hell cursor is but composer is

21:12basically your AI agent that allows you to build whatever you want I switch to agent mode and you love to see it Claude 37 Sonet is in the dropdown never thought I'd see the day uh I would assume based on my experiences you probably don't want to use the thinking model to do coding uh you know because i' I've tried 01 and it was just a pain to use uh you lose a lot of speed so let's just go with 37 Sonet here all right if I recall correctly when I just tried this game there was no shooting so let's start first by making the game playable making it fun and then

21:50what we'll do is add in the superas integration anyone who's new super base in my opinion it's probably the easiest for beginners to use database for apps uh I built my app on superbase I never used like a database before uh super easy to do I'll show you how to do that and that's where you're going to store like high scores and email addresses so you can put them into your newsletter if you're building a newsletter or whatever you want to do add it to your marketing list for your app whatever you're doing so with that being said let's go in here um we are building a space shooter game

22:28but but it doesn't appear the shooting from the ship is working can you please check over the code and see why that is I just talked to the AI like it's a human being I don't use any sort of advanced prompting techniques I I go on X every other post is like here's 20 meta prompts you can use to write the most advanced coding I just talk to the AI like it's a human being I don't have like any advanced meta prompting techniques I don't have no I just say hey man can you fix this for me please um I'll examine the space Sho identify looking at your code I can see

23:09that the shooting mechanism is implemented in the draw function this should create a new bolt when let me check if there any issues with this implementation going to be honest I don't know what that prompt that uh command does but let's run it let me check the file after examining the code I've identified the problem with the shooting mechanism the issue is how handles keyboard input the keyboard down function and pay five okay let me fix this by implenting a proper keyboard event Claude 37's literally like 45 minutes old so I just pray to God it works well uh and we're not going to get into like an endless Rat Hole here uh

23:48okay so try running the game now let's see what is the new key for shooting meu's Key down wasn't working ready for detecting the space bar okay so space bar press perfect let's accept this let's save this let me uh let's share the shooting screen again no technical experience right that was pretty not like saying hey change this line of code do this just figuring out on its own right I mean Light technical experience like you have to know a little bit of like what's happening but very light and I'll say this even if it's light if something confuses you when it's light you just go into

24:34grock and say hey what the hell is this guy talking about this AI what does this mean and it'll just explain it to you yeah all right let's see here oh we're shooting it's working it's working okay downside we're just randomly dying I don't know why we just died that made no sense um we okay that work I always like to tell the AI like okay what you did just worked thank you for that because then it kind of like trains the AI to know what it did was good because sometimes the AI does some stupid things and I'll say no you're an idiot so when it does

25:12good things make sure you also say okay that worked too so like train it to do those things again when it works um okay that worked one more switch back to the cursor screen yes apologies screen window it's like how do I know you're not coding right now you know I want to make sure this is non-technical I quickly uh rode an entire space shooting game during that that during that one pause okay that worked one more issue it seems we are randomly dying here's another thing I really like to do um I like to use the AI as like kind of a product manager as well where I'll ask

25:58it a lot of questions on what do you think the design should be here because you know when you're building something on your own you kind of lose perspective on your audience and what people want and so a lot of times when I'm making even small design decisions like I'm about to do here before I tell the AI what I want I'm going to ask it what it thinks I should do so for example right we're randomly dying in the game and so in my head I'm thinking okay should we die when uh the triangles get off the screen at the bottom or should we die

26:31when they run into us right what is more fair for the player and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to say okay that worked one more issue it seems we're randomly dying do you think we should die when the triangles we'll say the enemy triangles the enemy triangles run into us or when they go off the screen compl completely and so I actually before I make final decisions on any sort of design I'll Just Bounce It Off the AI real quick uh like for instance I'm I'm re-editing the tutorial in my own app uh and I I I've just gotten feedback from my audience like that's where people are

27:16falling off like they go in the tutorial they get really confused and so I've just been like talking to I where should this be where should the tutorial be and it's redid everything for me it's just way better the AI is just a way better designer than me so I like asking the AI first um let's see what it came up with I'm glad the shooting mechanism is working now let's address the issue with the Game ending unexpected looking your code I can see why you might be experiencing R random game overs the current game over condition is triggered when an enemy reaches the player's vertical position but it doesn't check

27:46for an actual collision with the player let me analyze the code listen even if you're not technical give it a shot and just like read the code because it can't hurt to understand how it works so even if it's super confusing and you don't know what it means I really think just looking it over and seeing trying to understand a little bit of how it works is beneficial I would never you know the the vibe coding uh trend is oh you just close your eyes and type I agree but let's go somewhere in the middle where you do look at the code just to see what it does um the

28:22condition checking if the bottom of the enemy is below the player's y position okay so it checks to see if it's below the Y position then just ends this doesn't account for horizontal position meaning an enemy can trigger game over even if it's not directly hitting the player let me fix this so it fixes it checks for player Collision kind of cool I fixed the issue with random game overs here's what I changed replace the vertical only check and has New Collision detection except let's test it out share so we're getting somewhere we're getting somewhere cool here let's try our game again refresh okay that worked okay here we go

29:04I was trying to move with the keys all right it's working it's working kind of cool right I mean super cool dude you buil a game in like a few minutes it's a few minutes uh we really didn't need any design skills and I'd say in the 3 minutes it took us to build this this is a lot more compelling to a general audience to get clicks than like a thread on X and then saying sign up for my newsletter right like it take I and I still do it but like that takes like two hours to do building this game took three minutes and I'd argue for a general audience on

29:49X that game we just made and we're going to make this even cooler is more compelling to like get a click get people interested in whatever you're doing doing and even if it isn't for a click I'd argue this is more compelling to get like follows and to get like or engagement so that next time you put out something that's related to your Niche or next time you put out something that like drives to your product they'll be more likely to see that on their home feed because they've already clicked on a couple of the things you built how do we change the design aesthetic of some

30:22of this stuff uh what are you thinking what what uh what would you like to change what's what's not pleasing you from a design perspective I mean I I think the the triangles need to go that's one triangles need to go okay let's do this I don't know I just don't think like to me it's you're not fighting against triangles you're fighting against like asteroids or something like that you you okay so let's do this from an artistic perspective I'm the wot the worst of all time so let's let's go back to Claude let's have claw do the design for that so I think the enemy ships are horrendously ugly they

31:07don't look like ships and they don't intimidate me whatsoever can I can I add one thing to this prompt I think that it's helpful for you to give it the goal and I think you should say that I want this game to go viral on X and my Niche is you know people into AI products and then I think you should say what should I change with my with my ships and what else should I change I love that I absolutely love that what should I change at my ships and what else should I change to make this more likely to go viral I love that that's great um I

32:06understand you want to make your game more visually appealing and viral worthy especially for an AI focused audience on X let's enhance the ship and add more viral worthy features to your game I love that and like one thing you can think about too like if if virality is the goal which i' argue this is the goal right we're not trying to build grand Auto 6 here we're trying to build a game that gets clicks and drives people to your products you know what are other viral things in the moment we can Implement like I showed you I made like a Mitch McConnell simulator a second ago

32:40like thinking about which memes are going viral what people care about in your audience and that implementing that in here is really really powerful especially for something like cursor where you can upload images like you can easily upload like a meme say hey this is a trend meme right now how do we implement this meme into the game that's something we could do so you know especially if you're a business owner I imagine most people watching this probably not trying to become professional game developers they're probably business owners trying to get more clicks so what the way you want to think when building this is like how can

33:16we get more current interesting viral elements into the game okay so let's see what we got here I understand you want to make your game more visually appealing and viral worthy especially for an AI focused audience on X let's enhance the enemy ships and add some viral okay so here's a little thing with cursor a little gotcha um that bothers me when I'm asking questions to cursor a lot of the times it just gets over its skis for instance I just asked hey what are your ideas for improving this game uh and it added 501 lines of code uh without even like conversating with me or like saying

33:57hey here's the ideas I got so I'm going to look what they did first and then if this is just completely abor which I would guess it is we're going to rewind and I'm going to show you how we can improve this prompt to avoid uh cursor from being as forward as it just was here let's see what it did I've completely transformed my space shooter game to make it more visually appealing we redesign enemy ships with AI theme three enemy okay so there's three enemy types basic listen I'll just say this if this works what it's telling me here in one shot I'm going to be the

34:33biggest Claud Sona 3.7 fan in the history of mankind if I said hey just make this more viral worthy and it adds like 20 different types of ships all in one shot in 500 lines of code this might be the AGI moment how about this what's your middle name Tyler Tyler nope not anymore because if this works you have to officially change your middle name from Alex Tyler Finn to watch How I pronounce Claude Alex Cloe Finn if this works and this doesn't am I allowed to curse in this podcast I mean it's a free world okay if this works and this doesn't look like horeshit you can

35:17bleep that out if that's too much um you can make like the title of this video like working with Alex clo fin on building game that like you can just totally destroy my discoverability and Name by putting that in the middle um we enhance the players ships so we we added three enemy ships we enhanced the players ship we added visual effects particle effects glowing effects bullet Trails animated Stars gradient space back this would be the single greatest output for an AI prompt I've ever had if this works scoring system level progression PowerUp system system AI themed elements enemy ships of AI brains and ai ai eyes that glow a

36:05game over screen that says AI Invasion simulation complete boss enemies satisfying visual feedback progression system powerups polished UI and restart function I've never anticipated the output for an AI prompt as much as I am right now to be honest they don't want this to work they want this to work but it's going to work if this works I'm declaring a AGI achieved I'm sorry but I am if this works I mean Elon M said today I think that Singularity is near Singularity yeah what he meant by that is when this prompt when you press enter Then Singularity will be achieved if my computer just Els I I I

36:58just did you press enter I didn't I'm building up this in Greg in Show Business is what we call building anticipation right when Michael Jackson comes up at the halftime show and he sits there and he stands there at the crowd for 10 minutes straight without saying a word this is what we're doing here so I'm going to hit refresh and we might discover AGI in one second all right here we go so what do we have here we have a much better looking ship we have enemy ships with fire Trails the stars are glimmering there's a score system I'm only seeing one type of ship though it

37:36said it was going to do three types of enemy ships maybe we got to get to level two the missiles do look like missiles I mean I have Goosebumps right now I'll just say this well what's that oh triple shot wow this oh my now we're going super f i remember playing games like this like as a kid in an arcades like this is unbelievable different type of different ships right there that's really cool I'm sorry Greg I might have to exit this podcast right now because uh AGI has been achieved and I need to go like build apps uh with this because this is the most mind this might be the

38:27number one most mind-blowing moment I've ever had with AI wow and you're a computer science grad yeah take it from a guy who uh coded with C++ in college this is the most mindblowing maybe technological advancement I've ever seen in my life right by the way you're flexing a little bit because you're actually really good at this game uh no big deal I played Marvel Rivals for like six hours last night so I'm kind of good at video games um I'm can we just spend the next three hours just playing all right I'm going to I'm going to purposely die in a second just to see what the screen looks

39:06like we got faster Ships Come Oh is these like the boss ships there the purple ones okay let's just die game over F AI Invasion simulation complete I feel kind of cringe right now because like 3 days ago grock 3 came out and I put out a post on X I was like holy crap grock 3 is the most amazing thing I've ever seen in my life and now I'm going to have to put out a post 3 days later that's like holy crap Claude Sonic 3.7 is the most amazing thing I've seen in my life I mean you're saying the truth the nature of the game I guess the

39:42nature of the that show is baby uh that I mean I'm not just saying this to kind of hype it up on a podcast that was the most unbelievable I think achievement I've ever seen an AI build in one shot what do you think that was unbelievable that was unbelievable that's honestly unbelievable like I I I can't believe it I I cannot believe it it's crazy because like what does this unlock right think about what this unlocks I mean it here's what it unlocks and here's what I've never seen AI do before AI up until two hours ago was very good at following instructions and what I

40:31mean by that is like I feel like The Benchmark for AI was here's an instruction and then our measure of the success was how well did it follow the instructions right like if I say build this does it build that thing but what I think we just witnessed that I've never seen an AI do before was it did creative thinking right I said hey you know the game's cool but it doesn't feel like it's viral worthy like here's my Niche how do we make this viral worthy and it on its own not only it thought abstractly about what it my Niche was and what would make things

41:11go viral right it thought abstractly about it and then it implemented it without having to be handheld through every single step right before this everyone who was in a hey if you're doing something with curse you're doing something make sure you break it down in the micro steps make sure you break it down step by step by step to make sure it's accurate I don't think that's the case anymore I don't think you need to break it down into micro steps based on what I just saw I was 100% confident when I had planned that it was G to be hot garbage I I was like anytime I've

41:41ever given Claude the instruction or cursor the instruction to do something and the result like result was this what you see here Plus 501 minus 46 I instantly slam my desk and go godamn it every time I've ever used cursor and I've seen this result right because then I know okay they messed it up they did they just they thought abstractly and implemented a really abstract creative solution which is amazing I'm uh I'm blown away I don't know about you but that was legitimately and this is like an authentic reaction I've never tried 37 before that was legitimately incredible um so let's do this now I

42:24would I mean is there is there that's better than any game thought we were going to make here is there anything you want to add to that or should we get to the uh super base part let's get to the super base part okay let's do this so we have an amazing game um we have here's how I measure virality uh especially on X uh I I'm personally very focused on X I do have a YouTube channel but I'm X is my bread and butter uh my virality measurement is okay is this Elon retweet worthy right because that's the home run right that's the Home Run you get you

43:01get an Elon retweet that's getting 10 10 million impressions right I think the game is retweet worthy I think when Elon sees the replay of the game for five seconds and he's busy working on 40 different companies that's retweet worthy so check there let's now Implement kind of the business portion of this which is high scores and collecting email addresses right A lot of people are going to see this they're going to go wow that's a really cool game uh I can't believe you built that all on your own let me play it they're going to click and now they're going to give you their email

43:34once they finish the game so all right that was incredible really good work now I want to implement a uh high score a leaderboard we'll call it leaderboard uh when users lose they should get an input where they put in their email and then their score goes on the leaderboard I want to use superbase for the back end first give me the plan and then I'll approve it so up to this point in time this was my way of getting around AI hallucinating right a lot of time when I give kind of a more complex instruction like let's Implement an entire database it'll mess up and it'll

44:42go on a weird path and we'll just go down a rabbit hole G be honest Claude 37 I might not need to do this anymore but we're going to do it anyway um so I always go give me the plan first and then I'll approve so what 37 will do here is thank you for the positive feedback I like that it thanks me for that um added a leader it's a little Vibes like that the little touches like thanking me for saying those things that uh I feel like makes AI so much more enjoyable to use um adding leaderboard superbase integration is a great way to make your game more

45:16engaging and viral here's my plan for implementing the future set up superbase game UI changes uh it's going to add a leaderboard backend integration visual design and create a nice leaderboard design in additional features add a share to x button to post scores directly that that's cool that I just thought of that Implement a weekly alltime toggle add verification typically at this point when it starts giving me advance things like this like there's no way the AI is about to implement this but now I actually have faith and trust that'll do that in one shot um okay so here's the plan add superbase create the schema add the

45:55leaderboard implement the submission logic okay would you like me to proceed you beta I don't think I don't think you need technical knowledge to get to where we are right now to get this pretty awesome game I think maybe I'm wrong but yes let's Implement man I don't know about you Greg but I am pumped to play around with this after build cool stuff uh that was unbelievable let's implement the leaderboard with superbase I'll start by adding the necessary code to your game first we need to add superbase library and set up the so again for people who don't know uh I will actually show you this

46:38while it is working let me show my screen again window uh this is super base um really easy free like you don't need to pay for this really especially if you're starting beginning and experimenting with things uh like I had a free I was using a free version of this with like thousands of users on an app you you don't need to pay for anything so I go superb.com sign up super easy to use you know a lot of the kind of newer apps and micro SAS apps people are putting out there use superbase because it's super cheap and easy and fast um but as this

47:20is going feel free to sign up superb.com you can start a new project um and then we will call this uh space game and then we can just create the new project and it's good to go we got to do a password Here uh let's go with boom not bad but the password needs to be harder okay how hard you Jesus there we go strong enough uh let's just copy that because there's 0% chance I remember that paste that into my other Apple note that if anyone was ever to hack it'd be game over for me create new project um okay so let's go back as

48:05that's going I'm going to be deleting this API and project after so do not think about stealing it people watching this video uh screen window let's go back in uh cursor have you used super base before Greg I have love super base it's awesome it's so easy to use uh even if you've never like used SQL before super super easy uh great let's implement the leaderboard okay first you add the superbase client now let's add the superbase configuration file to store our API Keys okay now let's update the sketch file to integrate the leaderboard unbelievable now it's Creator read me with the instructions great I've success oh this is cool so

48:56I've never seen Claude do this before um usually in my workflow a cursor like every time I implement or change something I have to tell the agent okay can you update like my readme files like I have a readme file for like every feature and every component in my app and I'll go okay go into that component update the readme with everything you just changed the fact that I just built a readme put all the details of the game in like wow everything it has like how the game works how to set up in superbase the schema uh that is actually really really really impressive uh didn't even ask to

49:34do that at all it just knows like best practices for for programming great I've implemented the leaderboard function I with the superbase integr again if this is one shot holy hell we're AGI achieved um okay set up superbase integration enhance the game Flow privacy and security uh okay so next steps create a superbase account done and set up your project following the instructions in the readme repl replace the placeholder API keys in the config so we'll go in there um let's just accept all I trust you I trust you Claude uh replace the placeholder API keys there test the game and leaderboard functionality deploy the game to web server we're going to do

50:16GitHub pages to show how to go live here and share your game on X and watch it go viral it's cool because it's like remembering everything we talked about in the previous conversation it remembers the goals of the game it remembers what we're trying to do here and it's like it didn't have to say share your game on X and watch it go viral but that's such a cool like Vibe touch just to like make the Vibes of the conversation cooler I love that the leaderboard adds a competitive element to your game and should significantly increase its viral potential like that's so cool that it like remembered the goals we gave it

50:51from a few messages go ago it wasn't it never did that for you before right Greg no no not and this what's so cool about this is it does really feel like you're working with someone like you know what I mean like this i' I've I've used this before and I've kind of felt like okay I'm kind of like pushing it to get the result that I want but now it feels like it's pushing me to get the result we want you know what I mean it's like it's this is this is next level amazing you're right it did feel like before especially when the app got a little bit

51:30more advanced it did feel like at times you were working against the AI a little bit right like no we got to do this change this this feels like for the first time the AI is like as you said pushing me like we're working together and going faster with each other which is amazing so let's pop open the read me let's see okay created the account did that create a new project did that once your Project's created go to the SQL editor and run the following SQL to create the leaderboard table all right so I'm going to let's do this I'm just going to go actually I'll share the superbase

52:08screen so people at home who are newer to superbase can kind of see how this works uh so we're in superbase superbase is a SQL database and so uh we go in there's a SQL editor where we can copy and paste in SQL and it'll do basically all the setup for us so first we can put in this command which uh Claude gave us this creates the leaderboard table where basically the scores will be stored can run that boom success next it uh create an index for faster queries let's pop that in run boom add security so people can't mess with other people's scores boom add allow anyone to

52:59insert scores okay so allow people to insert their own scores boom and allow anyone to read scores so you just this is all in the uh read me file that Claude generated and I'm just following it step by step you don't really need to know how any of this works you just kind of follow it and you're good to go and go to Project settings API to get your API credentials so we'll go project settings uh and then we'll go a pi to get your credentials I'll be deleting this project after and then so get copy your project URL and Aon key so project URL I'm going to switch back over to

53:40cursor so you can see me put this in okay so copy your project your Aon key open the superbase config and replace the placeholders okay so we're in here superbase URL paste that in and then the Aon key copy paste that in cool save um let's see what we got here Run the game man if this works holy hell uh most of the game on the web server you can use GitHub Pages all right so let's just test it first um I did notice it doesn't have I don't think it had the email input unless let's just see let's check out the table oh it does have an email field in the

54:31table okay all right let's uh let's give this another shot shall we letter red I swear if this works man all right give us a refresh okay now it's is this full screen now or we just have a bug we might just have a bug all right claude's not perfect even the AI is not perfect that's fine I forgive Claude oh oh okay so the game's not working but the clearly we died in the background somewhere uh your score zero enter your email to save the score okay we have a small issue I can't type anything let me just type in maybe it's just like the inputs

55:17oh a just please okay so couple things not working let's debug it let's debug it good I'm glad this isn't perfect so I can show people at home how to how to debug it back in the cursor okay a couple issues first I'm not seeing the game anymore when I run it it's just a blue screen and nothing else and then eventually the end game shows up okay so we're going to fix it you just tell Claude exactly what's not working what you're experiencing and it just goes and fixes it I see the issue I the problem is that we've modified the canvas setup but there's an issue with

56:08how it's being attached to the Dom let's fix it anyway okay uh pretty simple let's see what we got here one line of code now let's fix the super based client initialization as there might be an issue with how it's being created [Music] I am even though this didn't work I mean with 35 we would have had 20 of these issues so far up to this point and this would have took 10 times longer so the fact that we've only had one issue up until this point I find radically impressive totally I mean I blocked off six hours for this podcast so it's great that we'll be able to get it done in

56:51just over an hour we just freed up time to uh play around Sonet 37 after this it's amazing let's update the HTML it's still got the speed of 35 which is really cool um you know when with 03 you know when they upgraded to 03 mini and all that the speed slowed down you know uh what's cool about this though is it seems to be just like 35 just better smarter faster let's run a quick test to see I wonder what it's I don't know I'm a I have a comsi degree I don't know what this can is but we'll let it do its thing I don't know what it's testing

57:29there oh you have a compi degree I had no idea for those kids at home uh just tuning in I have a computer science degree which is probably the most useless degree you can possibly get at this point in time uh $300,000 down the drain I to pay for that one but at the same time uh at least I'm smarter than everyone so that's a positive let's make one final fix in sure a you son of a let's see what happens when I do resume maybe they'll just pick up from where it left off this little came out two hours ago give it a break I fixed the issue all

58:08right what's it doing now AGI not achieved what's going on here I fixed the issues with your game here's what's wrong uh don't know what just happened we're going to test it out let's see what we get window AI space invasion okay okay all right now I'll just die see what happens boom okay enter your email can I type okay so this was the second problem right I couldn't type for some reason we fixed the game issue that's pretty good we oneshot that so now let's fix the entering an email issue right pretty simple share next issue when uh let's say okay that worked next issue uh when the email input screen

59:06pops up I can't type in an email address into the input nothing happens when I type enter uh let's fix the issue with the email input field not accepting text this is likely happen because p5js is capturing keyboard events and preventing them from reaching the input field that makes sense so the game code uh for those who know let me give you a little computer science explanation here for those at home uh the game code is intercepting the key strokes for the game itself so that when you go to leaderboard screen the game still like intercepting the keystrokes because it thinks you're trying to play the game that's why I can't type in my

59:54email uh also add a fix to ensure p5js doesn't capture Mouse events when interacting with the modals pretty smart so thought ahead and thought other like edge cases that could be happening which is cool man I can't wait to play with this um so we'll get this done we'll get this fixed then we will host this on GitHub Pages which I personally believe is the easiest way to like go from prototype to live on the internet uh as fast as other people use repet uh netify they're all good they're all great I'm just I work in GitHub a lot so I just got used to GitHub

1:00:33Pages let's also add okay so it's adding some let's add a fix to ensure the mouse let's make one more change to ensure the input field works properly and I've fixed the issue all right let's accept this let's give it a shot hop open the game refresh okay we're shooting man I it even put the powerups and I didn't I didn't tell it to put power ups in I was like oh you want to go viral let's do some powerups anyway here we go uh boom that's working man if this works submit score score submitted successfully oh baby wow all right here we go oh there it

1:01:21is wow all right folks if you're not build in something and you're not playing with these tools what are you doing what are you doing stop watching us stop listening to us like at this point just like turn this off I mean don't turn it off we love you you know um we'd love you to watch it to the end but honestly like it's a shame that this exists today and people aren't playing with it like the people who play with this put it another way the people that play with this right now there's like a moment opportunity there's a window like there's an Arbitrage here like building apps here

1:02:01right like um there is an Arbitrage so I I highly recommend people go and put some stuff out there yeah it's uh we're we're in this incredible moment in time where we have this brand new technology right that does these incredibly powerful things right we just witnessed it build like an actually incredible lead gen in I don't know half an hour or so but at the same time most people aren't using it to do these things right and there's going to eventually come a time in the next year the next two years where everyone is doing something like this right you saw it as we talked about earlier with like

1:02:41the newsletters on X right three years ago when I started my newsletter not many people were doing it so I was able to get tens of thousands of subscribers like that but now everyone's doing it so that strategy doesn't work anymore like we're in that beginning moment of this strategy where people who attack it and use it are going to see unbelievable returns uh and then in three years when everyone's doing it the returns won't be there so you need to be looking for these opportunities where they're really powerful and not many people are doing it because as you said that's the Arbitrage opportunity it's pretty mind-blowing

1:03:15that I'm like I'm actively getting mindblown as we do this so uh Greg should we show them how to quickly put it live uh on the Internet or uh is that the best Next Step you think here yeah I mean that's I we need to close the loop on that for sure that's the number one feedback I get when I'm putting YouTube videos out and coding stuff is like I you don't show it how to put it live fine we'll do it we'll do it we'll put it live you know it's also like if you're watching Greg's podcast like this is amazing educational content if you're

1:03:53just watching this and consuming educational content and then you're not doing anything with it what's what are you doing what's the point agreed you just you got to take action man uh okay this is amazing I'm seriously blown away last step here for those who don't know I'm sure you got a sophisticated audience but for those who don't know just in case GitHub basically the only code repository on the Internet it's where you store your code it's where you can run your code from uh anyone who's anyone they put their their code on GitHub so good to be familiar with it if you're starting to do something like

1:04:31this but last step here I want to host this on GitHub pages so other people can play the game how do we do that bada bing bada boom Claude I'm sure we'll do this incred this is probably the easiest step out of all them I'm fill your happy with the game let's set up GitHub pages to post your game so others can play it here's how to do it so we're going to set up get AIT run now let's create a g ignore to exclude unnecessary files now let's add your files to the git repository run and I'm sure in a second here it's going to have us go

1:05:17into GitHub and and set up a repository create a GitHub repository and push your code okay so we going to go to GitHub and I will show the folks at home how to do this if they're new uh screen window let me actually pop open GitHub first so we're there okay um here we go window GitHub all right so we'll create a new repository we can call this space shooter um space Shooters available think get public we'll create the repo something went wrong okay GitHub GitHub doesn't want to GitHub doesn't want to cooperate me here let's just try a different game email space shooter email I just wanted a different name

1:06:13there we go okay so we made what did we call it space shooter email all right let's go name your repository leave it as a public repository do not initialize the read me create after creating the reposit get up will show you commands to push your existing repository you'll need to run these commands Okay let's do this I'm going to switch back my screen so you can see how I do this in cursor I'm just following step by step everything it's having me to do there's nothing too complex here let's do this let's open the terminal let's move this over let's change this so let's the

1:06:55correct command I'm going to make it so it's my username on GitHub which is fin a if I remember correctly uh yes it is SPAC shooter

1:07:16mail.get thatg and then we're going to hit enter on this and pray to God that it works okay so we hit enter let's go back in into GitHub and we'll verify it added our code there it is it's in our repo all I did was I followed the instructions we got the code there and then let's see what we need to do to host this live uh enable GitHub Pages after pushing your code to GitHub go to your repository click settings on the tab at the top scroll down to GitHub pages so this is what we're doing here is we are putting the code live um so that it has a link and people

1:08:00can go to it and play the game and then you can then take this link and if you're on X which listen if you're an indie hacker if you're an entrepreneur I in my opinion I think X and YouTube are the only two places on planet Earth that have the best uh Indie hacking communities on the internet I think if you're an indie hacker you got to be on both you just have to be on both um so build and deploy let's see what it having me do here uh under Source select main branch so Source deploy from a branch Branch main uh under Source like main branch

1:08:36click save boom okay uh create an index file for get get up paid requires an index. HML file for the root of your repository which you already have so you're all set verify your deployment after a few minutes your game should be available at the URL provided by GitHub Pages you can share the this URL with others so they can play your game okay so it is deploying right now uh and in just a couple minutes this should be live um where do I find the url I think it will display it once it's deployed so what's happening now is it's basically deploying your sites live here we

1:09:20go and this is live on the internet anyone can go on this site right now you can see at the top there and play the game and get their uh score on the leaderboard so there we go you know what I'm gonna do Greg instead of me going back instead of me going back and deleting this super base uh project so that people don't steal the API key you just edit out the edit out the part where you put the API keys in so that we can keep this up and then the audience can go in and play this game after if they're interested in trying out let's

1:09:55do and then should we do this let's do this anyone who plays this game after you put this live 48 hours later Whoever has the highest score I'll just venmo you 50 bucks right so reach out on X DM whatever send the screenshot to your scores when you get it Whoever has the highest score I'll I'll V mow $50 right add a little competition to it that should be fun absolutely I like that so that's games live now you can take this right you can go on twitter.com x.com and you can go hey check out my game boom and now instead of doing kind of the standard thing that everyone else

1:10:38does which is here's a thread on you know bunch of stuff I copied and pasted from Wikipedia subscribed to my newsletter now you like yo I build this really cool online experience right go play it and now you get an email a lot cooler way I think than kind of a thread so I think this is The Cutting Edge of how to get emails and all that actually the way to the way to do it is you take a video of yourself playing the game and the Tweet has the video because the link is going to suppress the algo then and then after a few hours as a second tweet

1:11:19you can include the link so let's let's now let's get into uh the X ality game right hook wow I've been or no actually this has been my favorite hook lately this is this is wild amazing hook right keep it simple boom people like wait what's Wild what the hell is wild I gotta know what's wild right I just built a game I just built an insanely fun game in just three prompts with Claude Sonet 37 um here's what I'll

1:12:13do Whoever has the highest score in 48 hours instantly gets 50 bucks are you posting this uh I'm not going to post it right now live on here because I'm gonna I want to make the teaser video of the game itself yeah um and so I can put it in that post because little spoiler for people uh on X uh putting media into the post boosts it right so you want to put videos you want to put images so I'm going to put a video of the game being played uh and then what you do is as Greg said you hit the plus button right and you just go here and go

1:12:56link to the game right uh link for the game below screenshot your score and put in the replies right so boom now we're getting replies right now we're getting people to reply with the screenshot of their scores which which boosts it even more so you got people boosting it by watching the video you got people boosting it by putting in the replies you got yourself a viral post and the best part is not only is it going viral and you're getting followers but you're now getting tons of emails for your newsletter as well which is pretty amazing yeah incredible incredible um Alex anything else you want to talk

1:13:38about before we head out couple other things I try to advance tips and tricks uh for people out there basically every AI now including cursor you can upload images so I tried this before I I did this a couple days ago um I think there's something to the strategy I took the Elon meme the the uh go freak yourself meme where he's like on the stage at the and he tells the media to go freaking themselves uh I uploaded that image to grock and I said turn this into a game and in one prompt it actually turned that Meme into a game so just a way to think about this is like

1:14:14look for what's trending in the moment look for what's popular look for what's getting clicks and AI is so Advanced now you can do something as simple as take the image upload it to Ai and say hey build an exp experence out of this and do really cool things so I think there truly is something to taking uh viral moments in time turning them into experiences with AI and like garnering attention that way there's something truly there and I don't think a lot of business owners and entrepreneurs and Indie hackers are taking advantage of that at the moment I think that's really the next Frontier of

1:14:49what you can take advantage of beautiful Alex thank you so much for your time you've been extremely generous um and uh where could people learn about you support you and and just pay pay it forward three ways uh my ex is what I focus on the most been working on my ex forever uh so alexf X to to check out my Twitter I have a YouTube um I think it's Alex fin official I'm sure the link will be down below exactly and then you can check out my AI content app I built an app called Creator buddy which launched a month ago now helps you create content

1:15:26on X it's super powerful only AI trained on all your posts on X so it knows all about you Creator buddy. so those are my three uh places on the internet all right well this has been legendary I appreciate it and uh I'm gonna go code some games that's what I'm about to do too by the way don't forget your middle name is Cloe by the way I am now Alex Cloe Finn I did I did like Tyler ATF tobacco Firearms I thought that was pretty baller but now I'm ACF so that's fine we got AGI so who cares middle names don't mean anything anymore exactly all right

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