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Madmallardyesterday at 9:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

Are game developers vibe coding with agents?

It's such a visual and experiential thing that writing true success criteria it can iterate on seems like borderline impossible ahead of time.


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20260126032624today at 6:18 PM

I don't "vibe code" but when I use an LLM with a game I usually branch out into several experiments which I don't have to commit to. Thus, it just makes that iteration process go faster.

Or slower, when the LLM doesn't understand what I want, which is a bigger issue when you spawn experiments from scratch (and have given limited context around what you are about to do).

TheGRStoday at 7:51 PM

I'm trying it out with Godot for my little side projects. It can handle writing the GUI files for nodes and settings. The workflow is asking cursor to change something, I review the code changes, then load up the game in Godot to check out the changes. Works pretty well. I'm curious if any Unity or Unreal devs are using it since I'm sure its a similar experience.

redox99yesterday at 10:13 PM

Vibe coding in Unreal Engine is of limited use. It obviously helps with C++, but so much of your time is doing things that are not C++. It hurts a lot that UE relies heavily on blueprints, if they were code you could just vibecode a lot of that.