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Introducing Spielwerk – The Tiktok for vibecoded mini games! Scroll through an endless feed of mini games, all created inside the app by other people. You can like, comment and remix any game, and beat your friends high scores. 1/6 More Below 👇
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You can build games right inside the app by just describing your idea. And GPT 5 is very good at turning ideas into amazing games! You can keep iterating on your game mechanic, upload custom image assets, and tweak the styling until it's just right. 2/6

When you're done, simply post the game into the feed where all your friends can play it. You'll even get notified when they like or comment, so you'll always know when they beat your high score. 3/6

I believe a new medium is about to emerge. Mini pieces of software, created and shared by anyone as easily as a Tiktok video. This new software-as-interactive-content needs a new platform. 4/6

A platform that merges creation with distribution and gives everyone a place where they can create amazing interactive experiences for themselves and for others. This is the big idea behind Spielwerk. Today we're taking the first step with games. 5/6

I'd love for you to try the app and send all your feedback my way. A platform like this is ultimately shaped by the community. Download Spielwerk here:

Ok this is going to sound really stupid and cynical, but hear me out. Compared to passively consuming tiktok, games actually ask a lot of a person. Add a button to each game that when you hold it down it auto-plays the game for the player. You can call it "fast forward" or whatever so the player feels fine pressing it. How many people do you think just hold the button down for hours?

haha thats a very interesting idea. I guess its similar to watching others play games on like twitch?

yeah doing some kind of twitch like thing is probably better. i wonder if you could sell access to the button...

@eikedrescher when is it ocming to android ?

@Shedletsky hopefully at some point, but limited resources right now :)

extremely epic. only wish: redesign the app navigation, so that the games can use swipe gestures having buttons to navigate in-game prevents getting into flow and the game is the core, not the app itself imo

thanks man! I'm doing some things in the background to allow games that have swipe/drag gestures to cancel out swipe gestures from the app. It doesn't work all the time yet, but this might be the way to go, case by case

@dennismuellr game gesture up top, scroll gesture on handle

@dennismuellr that another option, yep. What do you think about all this UI at the bottom overlaying the game and preventing any buttons or other game UI to live there?

@dennismuellr it's tight, but alot to accomplish: - you want to see the game fill the screen - you need your game meta - you need a way to play at anytime and swipe at anytime

@dennismuellr yep, definitely a balance to strike

did something similar for vibejam, glad to see you creating an app for it!

so nice!

thanks! i also made the stats public:

yeah thats a good idea

I think everyone once wanted to build their own game … crazy to think that we are now in a time where you can. Huge congrats on the launch! 🙌

🙏♥️ wild times ahead

@finnbags I feel like this is revolutionary and a type of innovation to be backed by community 7Uy2JLQC9M6Y8diUcFgb1a4qC6UEyLxVJV19Riy5BAGS

@finnbags 🙏

brainrot never looked so good amazing job as always 👏

haha thanks fedor ♥️

side note: you can also build a small coin flip game to decide who gets the nice hotel room in Barcelona

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So basically what Gizmo does?

looks similar!

your version is more in depth games/backend wise but i love the social features of Gizmo!

nice, which ones?

My kids would love this. They've created small HTML games with Bolt, etc. Asset creation is always where they get stuck. Any way to include a standard set of backgrounds/sprites/objects that could easily be integrated into their designs?

Yes! Planned to get it in before release but time was short. One of the next things I‘ll add for sure. One thing they can already do is upload their own assets, and they can generate them with chatgpt easily :) i did the same for one of my games

feels like a return to the Flash games era or early app store, Phone games are absolutely horrific now and want you to subscribe for $10 a month or are way too complex

the crazy thing is you can now simple build them yourself, for free. That industry is about to change in a major way

The app store is an absolute disaster. Huge opportunity. People legitimately want to play stuff like Flappy Bird

totally

Very cool! It reminds me a lot to this project I made (for web) but with the feed implemented. Great job!

thanks, thats super cool!

Brilliant, people will want this. I would add a party mode chatroom where there's chat on one side and the prompt on the other and you and your friends can jointly prompt the creation of a game. Then once everybody locks in, the game is generated-- something like that

super cool idea!

Wonderful stuff. As far as scripting games goes, what can devs use to create mini games?

currently they can simple prompt the AI and upload image assets for use inside the game :)

Wow, great execution. We thought long and hard about the vibe-coded games thing but never thought to put it in a feed. Well done - will be making sure my kids never find out about this!

thanks! and please tell your kids 😄

We should talk... because reasons... 🟧

Very(!) cool idea

thanks!

Your second app that makes me want to switch back to iOS 🤩😢

haha you just need two phones

@anishthite you’re always ahead of the curve bro.

Made a nyan cat hopping game. Love it!! Play while waiting is cute as well

nice! did you post it?

yes. can see on profile, but not on feed yet.

Saw it! Super nice, its in the feed

🥳 polishing with more changes!

nicee

Thing same will emerge for Uighur interactions soon. Think dribble but reactive. Rive is already pretty close, but imo not the perfect experience for exploration atm.

This is truly a great idea and execution! Congrats man!

😊🙏 thank you

this is really cool :) !! let's launch you guys on for max exposure

thank you! let's do it!

@rt_2422

very cool! love the idea

thanks :)

Congrats on the launch - looks super fun! :)

thank you, can confirm it is :)

Loved the idea

Great to hear!

Brilliant idea, this is amazing!!!

happy to hear that, thank you!

@bratrat hahaha we also built something similar :D

This is a brilliant idea. 😳 But I suspect the gameplay is limited. Most games are the same just with different visuals.🧐

Thanks! Well give it some time, I think the possibilities are absolutely endless :)

play store? 🥺

Not for now because of limited resources, but definitely at some point!

wow 🙏🏽🤤

🙏🏼

Cool

😊

Omg this is a banger Pls make sharing gameplay or leaderboard or smth

thanks! will definitely add leaderboards. What do you mean by sharing gameplay?

I don’t know too. Something social. A leaderboard is the social part of « competitive » game but for non competitive there gotta be something, maybe a replay or idk But just random ideas don’t follow them too closely

its a very good idea, thank you!

I'd suggest the name Slopwerk instead seems more fitting

how dare you sir
