#vibejam

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Alex872,585 views • 3 months ago

🕹️ Day 3 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF (Glif joined as a new sponsor and I'll tell you more tomorrow about how they will help your games!) It took a bit but things are finally starting to heat up! Here's some amazing games I saw today (in the videos): - unnamed by Danny Limanseta - Risefall RPG by Vicki Petrova - Vibe Theft Auto by oldfeet - unnamed by Kieran Smith Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress! I'll keep reposting all your updates during the Vibe Jam. The quality looks a lot higher than last year, AI models have come a long way and it's easier to build something that looks good and is playable! But you still need creativity and I see a lot of creative things in my timeline: Wanna participate? Can submit any time before May 1, so if you want to start tomorrow that's fine too! There's $35,000 in prizes you can win, see thread below for more info!
@levelsio250,698 views • 3 months ago

I am having a lot of fun with this ThreeJS game. Will probably be spending more time on this cosy flyer game for #vibejam And btw, shaders are awesome! I highly recommend anyone building a 3D game to add some shaders to make your game look good. Here's a quick primer on the different types of shaders you can tell your AI to level up your game's graphics: - Noise-based shader for water refractions or shimmer - Fresnel shader for a nice rim lighting effect on your 3D game objects - Post-processing shader to change your game's color scheme dynamically - Post-processing shaders like the VHS effect that @levelsio use for the Drone flyer game - Shader effect to make the trees sway or objects wobble - and many more uses Shaders are incredibly versatile and useful. I would recommend you to go YT to check out some shader basics videos and come up with more creative uses for them!
Danny Limanseta202,718 views • 3 months ago

I have to say that I’m very disappointed by this year’s #vibejam I'm disappointed because the judging process was… weird My game that you can see bellow ranked #94. Way lower than what I was expecting. I put a lot of effort into the game, I wanted to make sure I’d “push the limits on what AI can do”, just like the organizers were pushing to the builders. And in all honesty, I think I delivered that. I got a lot of positive comments about it (appreciate who did) But it was not enough to be even in the top 25. The judging process went like this: > 2 people judged 950 games, selected the top 25 and handed them to other judges Once I knew my game didn’t qualify in the top 25, I reached out to one of the first judges to ask for feedback, trying to understand why my game went so poorly. The response I got was “your game is not fun at all and lack any kind of story. You focused too much on graphics”. I thought it was a bit harsh, but okay. I’m fine with criticism. Then I reached out to a judge (a game dev) that was responsible to rate the top 25 games and asked for feedback as well. The response was completely different, I got “Jesus, this looks awesome! You should’ve be in the top 25” and the rate he gave me would've put me in the top 10 or maybe even top 5! Then I noticed the biggest problem of the jam: > The judges responsible for picking the top 25 has no experience on game development at all, and this completely broke the judging system So all my work focusing on real game development and not AI Slop was pretty much thrown in the trash as this was simply not important for the initial judges All because they just didn’t consider the game fun. Which brings me to another problem: > Fun is subjective I’ve played my game with my wife and we had a blast, and we also played other games that we didn’t find it as much fun. So they decided the results of the game jam that has 50k in prize pool based on their personal experience of fun. I mean, fun is important. But technical depth also should be considered in a game jam. They said that “fun > polish” was the criteria. But this is definitely flawed by the reason above. You can build GTA 6 but if the judge does not like GTA you are discarded. With no regards on the technical complexity of the game whatsoever I’m not here to trash on anyone, I think everyone that shipped a game deserves to be praised. And I think the winners deserved their spot. But the rest was very... questionable. And lots of participants didn’t get the respect they deserved (I've talked to a bunch of them) That’s my take. I'll tag some creators down bellow that should've get more credit
André → andreelias.dev73,904 views • 1 month ago

🧑🚀 Day 6 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 A lot of activity, my favorite ones today, I named some myself because I could not find a name: 🏜 Grand Canyon Sim by slow chaz, this one especially has a crazy beautiful indie art style, it looks really really special and promising 🦾 MechWreck by Kieran Smith, this is progressing nicely and now the mech you enter can destroy the entire city 👺 ☄️ Slingshot by Romain Simon, this one looks cool, very timely with the Artemis II moon mission, explore the galaxy with your own upgradeable spaceship! 🛸 PDC by Tone, this one also seems to be a space sim but very cool is you can walk around in your own space ship in 3d From what I see the visuals of the games are looking great, but now I'd recommend everyone to focus on gameplay, you want the game to be fun and exciting and challenging, even if it's simple (simple can be better!), it has to be fun! Don't forget that while you pixel push to beauty!!! YOU HAVE 23 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet. Oh and please name your game in your tweet or I have to come up with my own name for it like I keep doing here 😂 Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1!
@levelsio148,488 views • 3 months ago

🧑🚀 Day 7 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $20,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 Today's games I liked most from the Vibe Jam timeline: 🌏 Tiny Skies by Danny Limanseta I posted this one before but it's getting really good, beautiful chill vibes with rain drops ✈️ Paper Flock by lofibloom This one similarly also chill vibes and a line drawn art style where you're a paper plane 🧌 Sky Critters by Jasper de Boer First I thought this was like Sim City and it kinda is, you design your city and then you spawn flying monsters and can shoot them down 💅 Slay the Runway by Graham and his 9yo (!) daughter A dress up and runway game with lots of mini games (I think), the 2nd youngest participant, the 1st is 7 years old I believe :D YOU HAVE 22 DAYS LEFT! Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet There's $35,000 in prizes for you to win, see threads below for more info. The Gold prize is $20,000, bronze is $10,000 and silver is $5,000! Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1! Check the site in the reply for more info!
@levelsio145,082 views • 3 months ago

✨ I can now generate 3d assets for my drone sim at directly from Cursor (sponsor of #vibejam) I need buildings that you'd see in a war torn city, like warehouses in ruins, broken down abandoned houses, bombed out bridges etc. Nano Banana Pro or 2 can generate them really well and then you can put them in an image-to-3d model and you get a GLB or FBX That one you can then import into your Three.js game, the models might be big though, in my case like 16MB, so I ask it to compress it and make it more low poly so it loads fast ThreeJS then loads the individual GLBs on page load and puts them in my drone sim somewhere randomly, I think I should remove some of the grass and match the sandy color of the ruins though to make it fit in more
@levelsio134,777 views • 3 months ago

🧑🚀 Day 25 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF + Tripo🔜SIGGRAPH2026 Prizes to win (submit your vibe coded game before May 1!) 🏆 $25,000 🥈 $10,000 🥉 $5,000 🚨 ONLY 3 DAYS LEFT! 🤯 My favorite games from today: 🌎 WenWare by underpaid mom 🏡 Tiny Hamlet by Ibrahim Boona 🛸 Rogue Gear Descent by base12 🕵️♀️ Mafia City by Dave 📊 Mini stats: 403 games submitted 90,285 players 10,769,662 views Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress, and add tag #vibejam so I see and can include you in the daily tweet Wanna to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1! (we started April 1 btw) There's now $40,000 in prizes for you to win, see threads below for more info. The Gold prize is $25,000, silver is $10,000 and bronze is $5,000!
@levelsio112,469 views • 3 months ago

🧑🚀 Day 4 of the Cursor #vibejam Proudly sponsored by Cursor + bolt.new + GLIF So the new sponsor is GLIF: Glif is like Claude Code for AI videos and content generation: you can build launch videos for your game, explore asset styles with 100+ AI models/tools and train it on your favorite workflows via skills! Use it to make trailers, game assets, promo videos and more for your Vibe Jam submission! Tomorrow fabian from Glif will share more to help you create promotion materials for your games! Because it'd be cool if after the Vibe Jam your games will take off and become actual games Again browsing the #vibejam tag on X today and there's so many people building cool, cute and fun games so it was hard, but I picked my favorite 4 ones from today: - A literal 🪰 "fly" simulator, not flight simulator 😂 by Gabriel - What looks like a multiplayer Roman combat simulator by Tim Trussner - LeBeau Motel (another?) Habbo Hotel remix by Vincent - Roomba Wars by Thijs which is descriptive enough to not need an explanation 😁 Reply in this thread with updates on your current games to share your progress! Do you want to participate? You can still start now and submit your game any time before May 1! There's $35,000 in prizes you can win, see threads below for more info!
@levelsio126,421 views • 3 months ago

