Congrats!

Mostly keeping the character consistent across all 8 frames. Preserving the original proportions and details during movement was the hardest part. Pixel cleanup was necessary too, of course. Here's a look at the animation frames in the editor.

Sprite warping opens up some really interesting possibilities for procedural animations. Excited to see where Flame v2 is heading! 🔥

Sporehold is now listed in Awesome Flame-the official collection of Flutter+Flame Engine projects. I added my game because it showcases Flame’s potential for turn-based strategy games. The repository features many great games and apps, and I’m happy to see Sporehold among them

Absolutely agree! I’ve already noticed this during development. Building new features with AI is one thing, but maintaining consistency as the codebase grows is a completely different challenge. Curious to see how it handles long-term maintenance after release 😁

Good question! I haven’t done a direct comparison between the two. For this project, I focused on Codex and keeping the implementation consistent within one workflow. I’d expect some differences between agents, so testing the same skill across both would definitely be interesting

Thanks! 😁 Got approved on the second try. Apple didn’t like my screenshots the first time 😅 But the whole process took about a month. So yeah, not exactly a smooth ride!

Haha, turns out my team was just me, Flutter, and a bunch of AI tools 😂

Quite a bit. I generated art in ChatGPT, then pixelated and cleaned it up manually. After animating, I still had to fix all 8 frames by hand. The time depended on how much the character’s position changed between frames. AI helped a lot, but there was still plenty of manual work.

Exactly! 😁 I figured it was better to build something with tools I already know than spend months learning a new engine. And honestly, Flutter + Flame worked out better than I expected!

After 3 months of solo development, Sporehold is live on iOS! 🍄 My first game, built with Flutter + Flame using ChatGPT and Codex. From software architecture to gameplay balancing, it’s been an exciting engineering experiment. #Flutter #GameDev

I’ve always built mobile apps, while game dev felt way too complex — sprites, animations, art… it seemed impossible without a team. AI lowered that barrier, and Flame let me stay with Flutter. 3 months of solo dev later, my childhood dream is now in App Store review 🙂

Working on Sporehold, and the game is slowly growing its own world and lore. As an experiment, I turned a piece of the Purple Plague story into a comic 😅 Probably won’t be in the final game, but I like it as extra art for the world 👀

Sporehold is slowly becoming more than just a battle system 🍄 Added a character library with stats, abilities, and a bit of lore for each hero. The world is finally starting to come together.

The UI is slowly becoming more than just a list 😅 Put together the map selection screen for Sporehold. For now, I’m only working on the first chapter — the rest are placeholders to preview the future structure. But visually, it already feels so much better.

Expectation: “I build apps. How hard can making a game be?” Reality: The programming language is basically the only familiar part. Everything else is a whole different world. Deadlines: completely destroyed 😅 Flame + Flutter for game dev: absolutely loving it.

App review went through suspiciously fast. Saturday evening. Reviewer was probably rushing to a party 😅

Younger devs barely touch Stack Overflow anymore. Dev is turning into dry code generation ☠️ We used to argue for hours: tabs vs spaces, Vim vs IDE, and the eternal "duplicate of a 2011 question." Miss those debates, or does AI cover it now?