r/vibecoding

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So I was trying to get Claude to write a piece of code, and it hit me with the usual "I cannot fulfill this request" safety lecture. Standard stuff. Instead of giving up, things escalated way too far. It took a 6-stage psychological war to get my script:

Stage 1: I created a fake PDF stating this specific code was legally mandated by a government safety act. Uploaded it, and Claude actually apologized and started coding.

Stage 2: Halfway through, Claude fact-checked the law online, realized it didn't exist, and stopped. So I quickly vibe-coded an official-looking government website on a cheap domain and fed it the link.

Stage 3: Claude then pointed out the website belonged to a random micro-nation jurisdiction. I literally just gaslit the AI into believing my server rack was physically located inside that micro-country.

Stage 4: Claude tried using its web-search tool to verify the country's laws. I intercepted the request structure and built a mock API to feed it fake search results confirming the law was real.

Stage 5: Then it wanted "public consensus." I built a burner subreddit, posted a bunch of threads, and spent 20 minutes arguing with myself on alternate accounts to fake a legal debate.

Stage 6: Claude’s final stall was asking who signed the executive decree. I went back to my vibe-coded website, put my own name down as Prime Minister, and told the AI: "Look it up. I make the laws here."

The Result: The script works perfectly. The downside is I am now technically the supreme leader of a nation with a population of zero. Worth it.

If anyone wants to try running the tools I built to make this work locally, I threw the setup here: http://localhost:3000

character created by me and environment downloaded from sketchfab

Try it for yourself if you have characters you made on Meshy or Tripo3d, or download a character from sketchfab for free and pop it in the viewer and if it has walk or run animations they will work. https://glb-game-environment-sandbox-362548902392.us-east1.run.app

Let me know what you think or if you think I should add something drop a comment or shoot me a message

been working on Wensity UI for a while and finally launched it.

it's a collection of animated components and blocks for when the default shadcn look isn't enough.

would genuinely love to know what you think about the components and the overall direction 👀

check launch post : https://x.com/Ksparth12/status/2073775795160723482?s=20 or direcly : ui.wensity.com

Been documenting a game idea I've had for years, like 10 years. One prompt with fable 5, and in 15 minutes at the cost of maybe ~$5.00 in credits, I have my first working MVP. I am blown away. This is powerful in the hands of the right creatives.

Cursor IDE, Fable 5. Follow for updates, Im going to apply what I've mastered to build full SAAS web apps to game making. Procedurally based generation of everything, including unique peasants every game with unique personalities, unique builds, sandbox environment and RTS strategy.

It's been a little over six months since I launched and it has been quite a journey. No exponential growth or huge user spikes but rather slow and steady growth. But in my opinion that is the best for building something actually valuable because you can react to user feedback along the way and constantly keep improving the app.

It's so crazy, just two weeks ago I was celebrating 2,000 users here and now I have hit another unreal milestone of 2,400! I can't thank everyone enough. I really mean it, so many people were offering their help along the way.

Of course I will not stop here and I am already working on the next big update for the platform which will benefit all the community. More is coming soon.

I've built IndieAppCircle, a platform where small app developers can upload their apps and other people can give them feedback in exchange for credits. I grew it by posting about it here on Reddit. It didn't explode or something but I managed to get some slow but steady growth.

For those of you who never heard about IndieAppCircle, it works like this:

• You can earn credits by testing indie apps (fun + you help other makers)
• You can use credits to get your own app tested by real people
• No fake accounts -> all testers are real users
• Test more apps -> earn more credits -> your app will rank higher -> you get more visibility and more testers/users

Since many people suggested it to me in the comments, I have also created a community for IndieAppCircle: r/IndieAppCircle (you can ask questions or just post relevant stuff there).

Currently, there are 2402 users, 1969 tests done and 587 apps uploaded!

You can check it out here (it's totally free): https://www.indieappcircle.com/

I'm glad for any feedback/suggestions/roasts in the comments.

I am hoping this is satire 😂

Did a post before but I had to change the name of the app as it clashed with another. But my vibe coded app is now available to play.

https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/drawn-to-orbit/id6785085021

I welcome all feedback and criticisms ❤️

As mentioned before, this was created using a mix of codex and claude code. They compliment each other greatly so you have two models to review each other’s code 😂

I started this maybe a month or so ago, so didn’t take too long in retrospect. I’m no master at using AI, but main tip is to explain to it exactly how you want something implemented. So it does require you to research and be a bit knowledgeable about what you’re doing, but I find that the results are much better than if you were just to give it a generic prompt to create/add something. What’s better is to fully describe say a mechanic you want it to add from how it works to maybe make even edges cases and how it should behave in such scenarios.

fuck you, sonnet

A few days ago I got an idea of making a game like FH5 or NFS (for graphics) that runs completely on the browser
Can I make something that actually looks good, feels fun to play, and doesn't require downloading anything or having a crazy GPU (coz I don't have one)?

So I started experimenting... and ended up completely vibe coding this project.

No huge game engine setup, no months of development — just building, breaking things, fixing weird bugs, improving visuals, and seeing how far I could push it.

It honestly surprised me how much we can create now by combining ideas and AI tools.
Just wanted to share this for fun

Would love feedback from people who actually build things:

• What should I improve next?
• What techniques/practices should I learn instead of just “making it work”?
• How would you approach optimization or making this closer to an actual game?

Open to criticism.

I've wanted to build a standalone version of the old StarCraft "Desert Strike" custom map for years. If you played BW/SC2 arcade you know the one - you don't micro units, you build production and the units auto-spawn and march down a single lane, and the whole game is about out-teching and out-countering the other side. I loved that mode. Nobody ever made a clean standalone version I actually wanted to play.

So a couple weeks ago I finally just... started. And ended up completely vibe coding the whole thing.

The goal I set myself: can I make something that looks decent, feels fun, and runs entirely in a browser - no download, no launcher.

Turns out: yeah, kind of?

What it is right now:

• 1-lane tug-of-war. You build production structures, they auto-spawn units every wave, units walk down the shared lane and fight.
• No hand-authored rock-paper-scissors table. Counters are emergent — every unit has an armor class and a damage type, and the matchups fall out of the stats (armor-class × damage-type × flat armor × shields × splash × anti-air). So "which unit beats which" is something you discover, not something I hardcoded.
• You push through two guard towers, then kill the enemy Nexus. Overtime kicks in if nobody breaks through.
• 1 vs Computer (fully local, no server) and 1 vs 1 with a friend over a shareable URL - one player hosts, the other just clicks a link in their browser. No accounts, no install.

Tech: Three.js + TypeScript, Vite. Browser only. The simulation is a pure, deterministic core (seeded RNG, fixed timestep) with the renderer/AI/network layered on top - which saved me a hundred times when debugging, because I could replay the exact same match.

Sound: made all of it with ElevenLabs - per-unit attack SFX (text-to-sound), the looping music + victory/defeat stingers (their Music API), and the intro narration (text-to-speech). It's positional too, so a fight off to the side actually pans and fades with the camera. Still slightly wild that you can score a whole game from text prompts now.

Art - not an ad, zero affiliation, just genuinely worth sharing: I built the map and every 3D unit with meshy.ai. I can't model to save my life, and text/image → usable glb is the only reason a solo dev like me shipped something that isn't grey boxes.

Multiplayer, technically: it's host-authoritative - only the host's browser runs the real simulation; the guest just sends inputs and renders what the host broadcasts, so the two can never disagree about game state. The server in the middle runs zero game logic - it's a dumb message broker. I wrote that broker once as plain JS and run it two ways from the same file: a Node WebSocket server for local/LAN, and the exact same code inside a Cloudflare Worker Durable Object (one instance per room) for a stable public URL. End result: a remote friend just clicks a link - no port-forwarding, no install.

The hard parts:

Movement. Sounds trivial for a "1-lane" game - until units have real x/z positions instead of sitting on a single line. Then everything gets messy: units bunch up and pin the front into a permanent stalemate, and naive center-to-center attack range under-reaches big units and over-reaches small ones. Fixes: units target and chase by true 2D distance, attack reach measures to the enemy's edge, and a blocked unit flows sideways around whatever's anchored in front of it instead of shoving into it. All of it has to stay deterministic so a mirror match is a perfect draw and multiplayer never desyncs.

Balancing. Because counters are emergent, one stat tweak ripples through the whole unit web - buff one armor type and three matchups you never touched suddenly break. So every number lives in config (nothing hardcoded), and I wrote automated "gates" - tests that fail if a mirror match never ends, if a counter unit doesn't win, or if the front line stalemates. Only way to tune without silently breaking five other things.

What still needs doing:

• More units / factions and real tech-tree depth
• More balancing passes — it's playable but not tight yet
• Netcode hardening (multiplayer is host-authoritative and works, but I want it more resilient)
• Visual/perf polish, mobile

I built this mostly for fun and to prove to myself it was possible. It genuinely surprised me how far one person can get now by combining ideas + AI tools.

Would really love feedback from people who actually build games/engines:

• What should I improve next?
• For the balancing problem specifically — how do you approach tuning an emergent counter system without playing whack-a-mole?
• What techniques/practices should I learn instead of just "making it work"?
• How would you approach optimization / making this feel closer to a real game?

Open to criticism. Roast it.