What happens on first launch

The reasonable thing to expect from an AI game maker is a wizard: pick a genre, pick 2D or 3D, pick a camera, name the project, choose a folder. What you actually get is one box and one question — what game do you want to make? You type a sentence and press Enter.

For a second or two the app says "Reading your idea…". Then one card: what the AI understood, in a line you can read back to yourself, and underneath it the picks it made. Whether the game is 2D or 3D. Which pre-built start it opens in — a car you drive on a track, a first-person view, a character seen from behind, one seen from above, an isometric world, or a blank scene the AI builds into. And, for a third-person or isometric game, which of six real places the ground comes from: Reine, Lauterbrunnen, Glencoe, Sedona, Milford Sound, Yosemite Valley.

The card asks a question only when your sentence does not answer it. "A small racing game" is asked nothing: 3D, a car on a track, Continue. "Make a game" is asked 2D or 3D, because that is the one thing nothing in those three words can tell it.

The picks are the AI reading your sentence, not a verdict on it. The arrows at the bottom of the card step through them, and pressing any row changes that pick. A card you agree with takes one press — Enter does it, the same key that sent the sentence.

The last line on the card is where the game will live: Saved in Documents\Flockbay\My game, on Windows, with Change beside it if you want it somewhere else. Continue confirms the picks and the folder together, so nothing is written anywhere you have not seen. If that folder cannot be written — a locked Documents, a full disk — Flockbay says so once and asks you for another, rather than trying again behind your back.

Where that breaks: an isometric game whose sentence names no setting still gets asked for a landscape. Those worlds stand on real terrain, and the app will not guess which part of Earth your game is on.

Continue starts the world. A 3D game gets ground around the place you picked, sky, water, weather, and someone to play as. A 2D game starts playable: a sky colour and a band of scenery along the horizon, ground with a ledge and a floating platform, and a person the camera follows who walks, falls and jumps under the keys you press.

When it is ready, the app opens it in its editor. The conversation stays in the chat on the left, and your world is in the 3D view, or the 2D view for a 2D game, with the builder’s tools around it. The game plays in the Game screen, one tab away, when you press Play or when Flockbay has built something new for you to try. There is no walkthrough, no wizard and no tooltip tour.

The AI writes the code when you ask, into the Godot project, and you can open it and change it. For now you play what is already there.

Opening Flockbay, typing your idea and pressing Enter need no account and no setup: nothing asks which AI first. Your first sentence runs on the Flockbay demo model, which is free each day. The pill beside Send says Demo, and an amber Low-quality model warning above the box says what to expect from a small, cheap model: a start, not a finished game.

Use your own AI, on that warning, puts a card above the box with Sign in with Claude and Sign in with ChatGPT. Each signs in in your browser, on Anthropic’s or OpenAI’s own page, and the chat runs on that account from then on, as do the games you start after it. If the account can’t build here, Claude or ChatGPT says so, and the card links to their site. The model menu, the pill beside Send, has the same Claude and ChatGPT tabs.

When the day’s free usage runs out, a card titled "Choose how Flockbay builds" stands where Send would: See plans, for a Flockbay plan that runs the AI for you, then Sign in with Claude and Sign in with ChatGPT. Until you save it, your work lives on a guest account on this computer, and Save your account in the account menu keeps all of it when you sign in.

Signing in needs the network; if your machine is offline the card says "You’re offline". Play and the builder still need the internet for world data. The same choices are in Connectors, from the Flockbay menu.