Guides
325 pages on making games in Flockbay, free on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan, grouped by what they answer. Roughly half of them are about things Flockbay is not, and say so.
By genre · 92
- A horror game maker for people who understand pacing
- A MOBA is mostly balance, and balance is play testing
- A monster collector is a spreadsheet with a world around it
- A platformer maker with no ceiling on it
- A sandbox game maker built around systems that keep running
- A shooter game maker where feel is the thing you tune
Alternatives and comparisons · 46
- A Buildbox alternative for people who outgrew the drag and drop
- A Construct 3 alternative that does not ask you to give up 2D
- A Defold alternative when you would rather not write Lua
- A free Unity alternative, and what you are really escaping
- A free Unreal alternative for people who do not need a film renderer
- A GameMaker Studio alternative for people who never wanted to write GML
Making a game · 24
- AI game idea generator: the idea is the cheap part
- An AI game generator from text, and what text is actually good at
- Chat to game, and the part chat is bad at
- How building a game with AI actually goes
- How to make a 2D game without learning to code
- How to make a 3D game when you build on your own Claude or ChatGPT plan
Platforms · 21
- A Steam game maker for people who bring their own Claude or ChatGPT plan
- Android game maker: read this before you download anything
- Flockbay for studios, with the caveats up front
- Flockbay is not a VR game maker
- How do I use Flockbay with my own AI agent?
- HTML5 game maker: what Flockbay is and is not
The category · 18
- AI game prototyping, on an engine the prototype can survive on
- AI that makes games, described accurately
- An AI game studio in the sense of a workshop, not a company
- An honest answer about "unlimited" AI game making
- Can AI make a 3D game?
- Can AI make a game?
The engine · 18
- A beginner engine that does not have to be outgrown
- A copilot for Godot, or something that does not need one
- A no-code game engine that is still a real engine
- A no-code game maker where the code still gets written
- A no-code RPG maker that does not come with an RPG in it
- An AI agent that works inside a Godot project
Generating things · 16
- A character is a model plus everything that makes it move
- AI level generator: generate the ground, place the meaning
- AI map generator for games: a real Godot world you can keep editing
- AI sprite generator, and the part it leaves you holding
- An AI dungeon generator that hands you a dungeon you can edit
- An asset generator attached to the game the assets are for
The product · 14
- A design tool where the design is playable the same day
- An AI game builder where you still do the building
- Game development software you install, with AI inside it
- Is there a Flockbay command line?
- Plugins: where the manual controls live
- Refunds and cancelling
Who it is for · 13
- A game maker for beginners that does not start with a tutorial
- A game maker for education, and what it actually teaches
- A game maker for kids, with the grown-up details up front
- A game maker for students with a deadline
- A game maker for teachers who are not programmers
- AI for indie game developers, without giving up the project
Bring your own agent · 12
- AI agents and game development
- Connect your own agent
- Game development over MCP
- How to make games in Claude Code: from install to a game you can play
- How to make games in Codex: the Codex CLI, the ChatGPT app, or your ChatGPT plan inside Flockbay
- Making games from Cline
Godot starter templates · 12
- A Godot metroidvania template is a platformer with a map screen
- Godot 2D game templates: what they hand you, and what they leave
- Godot 3D game templates and the work they do not remove
- Godot city builder templates give you placement, not simulation
- Godot FPS templates, and why the feel is most of the work
- Godot platformer templates: three different things go by that name
Straight answers · 11
- Building with Flockbay needs a connection. Playing what you built does not.
- Can I edit the code myself?
- Do I need Godot installed to use Flockbay?
- Flockbay is free on your own AI: you pay the company that runs your model, and Flockbay nothing.
- Is Flockbay an Unreal Engine plugin? No
- What can Flockbay not do?
Cost and the free plan · 10
- A free 3D game maker, and what free usually hides in 3D
- A free game engine for beginners, counting the real cost
- AI game maker, online and free: half of that is true here
- An AI game maker with no sign up: Flockbay needs an account, and here is why
- An AI game maker without a credit counter, and what it costs instead
- Free mobile game maker: read this before you download anything
2D and 3D · 9
- A 2D game maker where the first thing you do is press play
- A 3D game generator, and what actually gets generated
- A 3D game maker for people who bring their own Claude or ChatGPT plan
- AI 2D game generator: the code is generated, the game is not
- AI 2D game maker: what a working session actually looks like
- AI 3D game generator: two kinds of generation, one of them yours
Definitions · 8
- AI game maker vs game engine: the difference
- What is a no-code game engine?
- What is an AI game engine?
- What is an AI game maker?
- What is GDScript?
- What is Godot?