CTO & Founder of Phaser Studio. Creator of the Phaser game framework.
UK
Joined February 2009
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Recently finished your autobiography (which was excellent btw, thank you for writing that) and the algorithm recommended me Lawbreaker videos on YT showing new public servers and a healthy active 2026 fan community, so I’d say it’s going pretty well all things considered! 😅
😂 I’d argue that it *is* magically sprouting now, too! That could almost be the definition of agentic software dev.
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As someone who runs a mobile game studio and is also heavily in AI, it makes me laugh when someone thinks they can just solo vibe-code a $41m/mo game.
It is 20% about the core gameplay and the rest is live ops and experience tuning for retention.
These game studios are more like quants or psychologists than devs.
FTUE, D1/D7/D30, Churn, Cohort analysis, winback, progression, cosmetics vs power, ARPPU, CAC/CPI, ROAS.
Everything is carefully measured and quantified over months and everything gets AB tested. Not only ads but small features in game.
To make a game as financially successful as this is more about heavy data analysis and an insane analytics + live ops backend.
You can vibecode in a single prompt a gameplay MVP, not the hundreds of overlapping systems and have them balanced and calibrated for profitability.
This would take years solo.
Cute video, but this is about as “16bit retro 2d” as Elden Ring. So basically proves H3 is terrible at following this prompt.
Richard Davey retweeted
Grok is becoming best in class when it comes to building games with AI
You can have an all-Grok one person game dev studio
→ Grok 4.5: fast + powerful
→ Grok Imagine: game sprites
→ Grok Build: great interface
Here's how I've been building games with the stack above together with my tool Spriterrific (that uses Grok Imagine behind the scenes)
00:00 Intro
00:32 Why Grok is Great For Gamedev
01:20 Grok Imagine for Game Assets
02:16 Accessing Grok 4.5
02:54 Grok Build - Privacy Settings
03:28 Grok Build - Quick Tour
03:47 Spriterrific - Overview
04:00 Game 1: Football - Adding a new team
06:10 Spriterrific - Setup & Using with Grok Build
07:40 Spriterrific - Reviewing the Results
09:52 Spriterrific - Frame Picker to Adjust Animatinos
12:29 Game 2 - Adding a new character
15:31 Wrap Up
Richard Davey retweeted
I see many people in my comments saying they feel unsure of how to build games with AI.
OR that they've tried, but feel overwhelemed, or can't get the results.
If that's you, check out my playlist here where I build literally every kind of game with AI youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…
Richard Davey retweeted
Introducing the #PhaserGameAgent 🤖
Anyone can ask an AI to write game code. We did something harder: we built a brand-new Phaser engine designed from the ground up for how agents think and build.
Describe a game ➡️ Walk away ➡️ Play it
Code, art, and sound — built for you, start to finish. Every game gets its own link to share instantly in the browser 👾
A decade of Phaser. This is what it was building toward 👇
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#Phaser #GameDev #IndieGame
Richard Davey retweeted
More PixiJS 3D testing 👀
Take any live 2D PixiJS content (sprites, text, graphics) and render it onto 3D geometry
Our goal is to make working between 2D and 3D as seamless as possible in our WebGPU/WebGL renderer
Let us know what features you'd like to see!
Richard Davey retweeted
🎮 We've teamed up with @RedditforDevs / @Reddit for the Games with a Hook Hackathon and there's $40,000 up for grabs! 🤑
Build a community game with #Phaser, ship it to MILLIONS of redditors, and compete for a share 🏆
Submissions close July 15. What are you waiting for?! 👇
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Phaser v4 will ship in time for its 13th anniversary, packing a massive punch. How massive? Take a scroll through the release notes to see: github.com/phaserjs/phaser/b…
Good things come to those who wait.
And this is *very* good.