I spent a couple hours playing with Rosebud this morning and I have a bit of feedback.
- I thought this would be a useful tool for prototyping, but as a programmer I would probably never use this to release a finished product. Maybe it would be better to target this kind of tool for prototyping instead of being able to make a full game that people will want to pay money for.
- I tried making a simple turn-based (american) football game. It's pretty good for getting some boilerplate set up, but sometimes it felt like it would have been easier to modify the code myself at times than try to explain what I wanted modified to the AI.
- It seems like whenever I did try to modify the code by hand, my changes would get wiped out by the next iteration generated by the AI. Maybe it was referencing the old code?
- I found getting assets into the game a bit tricky. Sometimes it would try updating the code to reference assets that we hadn't created yet. After that I couldn't get it to generate assets for me.
- Sometimes the AI would get stuck on something (e.g. generating an asset), or it would make a mistake. In that case I couldn't figure out a way to "go back" to a previous iteration of the game.
- At one point I tried to get the AI to make a change, which it did, but the code it generated had a large portion of the original code based removed and replaced with something like `// The rest of your code here.` which obviously broke the game.
- I thought this would be a useful tool for prototyping, but as a programmer I would probably never use this to release a finished product. Maybe it would be better to target this kind of tool for prototyping instead of being able to make a full game that people will want to pay money for.
- I tried making a simple turn-based (american) football game. It's pretty good for getting some boilerplate set up, but sometimes it felt like it would have been easier to modify the code myself at times than try to explain what I wanted modified to the AI.
- It seems like whenever I did try to modify the code by hand, my changes would get wiped out by the next iteration generated by the AI. Maybe it was referencing the old code?
- I found getting assets into the game a bit tricky. Sometimes it would try updating the code to reference assets that we hadn't created yet. After that I couldn't get it to generate assets for me.
- Sometimes the AI would get stuck on something (e.g. generating an asset), or it would make a mistake. In that case I couldn't figure out a way to "go back" to a previous iteration of the game.
- At one point I tried to get the AI to make a change, which it did, but the code it generated had a large portion of the original code based removed and replaced with something like `// The rest of your code here.` which obviously broke the game.