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I'm making a PC game called Doggy Don't Care. You're a dog left at home alone getting up to mischief https://store.steampowered.com/app/2438180/Doggy_Dont_Care/


It must be fun to think of all the mischief a doggo can get into :)


My background is in website development which I left to pursue indie game development full-time.

I'm currently making a game called Doggy Don't Care on Steam.

Anyway, I've been curious how much AI has changed the web development scene since I left 5 years ago. So today I put together this website in a couple of hours with the help of Claude AI.

It fixes a real problem for me as an indie dev: The data source is howtomarketagame.com/festivals (google spreadsheet) which is quite bloated and full of old/redundant entries. This website updates itself once a day based on that spreadsheet and throws out all the irrelevant ones.

It's been a wake up call for me being able to "vibe-code" a whole web app idea from concept to published within a couple hours and on top of that it will run itself for the foreseeable future. I hardly recognize the web development industry today


Sad to see it postponed but what is another day when it has been so many years waiting! :) Will be great to see it launch when it does


I quit my job in web development for the same reasons a few years ago and have been much happier for it. Good luck!


I made Swoopy Boi on my own besides UI design. http://swoopyboigame.com


Lol! the irony


I launched my first small mobile game this year! [1]

I recently started my next game which is a story-based platformer. It will be tiny/small and it's hard not to think it will not be enough, but this post has confirmed for me that small is ok, if not better. Thanks!

1: - https://apps.apple.com/au/app/swoopy-boi/id1494073988 - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.RotubGames...


Do you have a blog or can you share any technical details about the development? E.g. did you use something like React Native?


I've only got this one blog post about https://medium.com/@rotub/the-making-of-swoopy-boi-fa175f3ed... and you can follow me on twitter if you like as I post stuff there sometimes. http://twitter.com/rotub

(I used Unity)


Thank you!



That's really cool


I once got to the top for a non-tech related post when I shared my story about skateboarding 86km from Sydney to Wollongong. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5530044

Still amazed it was well received here and grateful for all the friendly and encouraging comments


The linked to story is dead. Fortunately archive.org has it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130228011236/http://www.rotub....


I remember reading this back in the day. Reading it all over again today. Still madness!


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