An AI game maker with no sign up: Flockbay needs an account, and here is why

What a free AI game maker gives you is defined on that page.

You can download Flockbay without giving us anything. To build with it, you sign in. There is no way around that and we are not going to bury it four paragraphs down.

If what you wanted was a page that opens and makes a game with no account at all, this is not it, and it would be a waste of your evening to find that out after installing.

What you do not need is a credit card. Flockbay does not ask for one.

Because building runs partly on our infrastructure. Flockbay writes your code on your own AI, and what it builds with, the library of ready-made objects and the world data, comes from our servers, which serve a signed-in account. There is no version of that which is anonymous.

The tools that genuinely need no account are the ones where nothing runs on anyone's server. That is a real category and it is a legitimate thing to prefer. It is simply a different category from this one.

The alternative would be to pretend, which either means very tight anonymous limits dressed up as generosity, or account creation appearing the moment anything interesting happens.

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The free plan gives you the whole builder, and the builder has two sides. Making a project asks which one before anything else — 2D or 3D, shown as two pictures, with no default — and neither is held back. On the 3D side that is landscape, water, weather, time of day, cameras and NPC behaviour. In a flat project it is ground you drag into place, sprites positioned by hand, and the camera framed by dragging boxes on the running game. Add your own textures, sounds, props and rigs, play, playtesting and publishing. Flockbay is free on your own AI: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, your own agent, or an API key.

You get a desktop app for Windows with Godot bundled inside it. Your projects are real Godot projects on your own disk, not files on our server. That is worth noting given the question: your work is local even though your account is not.

The game you build runs locally on the bundled Godot. Playing it needs no connection and no sign-in, because it is just a game running on your computer.

You build the world by hand. In a 3D project that is terrain, water, weather, buildings and characters, placed and arranged in the builder; in a 2D one it is ground dragged into place and sprites put where you want them. Flockbay writes the GDScript for whatever behaviour you describe, inside your project, and works the same in either world.

You never open a script unless you want to. You play the result and say whether it is right, and that back-and-forth is the normal way of working rather than a sign something went wrong.

Then it genuinely is, and you should look at tools that run entirely on your machine. Godot itself is free, open source and needs no account whatsoever. It also expects you to write the code, which is the trade.

That is the actual choice on the table, and it is better to make it knowingly than to install three things and be annoyed by all of them.

No card for the free plan. No connection to any other account for the app to function. Your projects sit on your own disk as Godot projects rather than being uploaded to us.

The sign-in exists to attach usage of Flockbay and generation to a person, which is the only part of this that runs on someone else's hardware.

That is the whole of it, and it is a smaller ask than most tools in this space make. It is still an ask, which is why this page leads with it rather than ending on it.

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