Building ‘Impact Soccer’ on Roblox - No Ball. Kick Players to Score Goals. Massive Hits, Bone-Crushing kicks. Curve your shots. Play-tests open. DM 🤝
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First Early Look of 'Impact Soccer' - A physics-based soccer game w/ no ball, pummel opponents to the ground or kick them free standing to score goals. Control your speed, angle, & kick power to execute major curves on strikes. ALL feedback welcome & looking for play testers 🤝
Game Dev Tip #2:
When running a team of AI agents to help develop your game it is important that you have the Game Editor (e.g. Roblox Studio, Unreal Editor, Unity Editor, etc.) always at the forefront of the screen.
This is necessary so the QA Agent can properly run its tests on new updates, which always includes a performance check. If the Game Editor is in the foreground, then your computer automatically throttles the frame rate which leads to inaccurate test results. It is also important that you do not use your computer while the QA is running tests, but this creates a bottle neck.
How can you continue brain dumping ideas all day to the Orchestrator Agent (i.e. the highest level agent)?
One solution that has helped me (especially since I’m limited to one screen during the work week), is using the /remote-control command in Claude Code. This feature allows you to access your same Claude Code instance from your phone wherever you might be.
Hope this is helpful. 🤝
Game Dev Tip:
When using AI to help develop your game, prompt your LLM to analyze your game and create a lineup of multiple different permanent agents (all Opus 5.5 for my setup) that can be assigned to work on different aspects of the game. Then tell the LLM to have each agent to review the project to gain an understanding of what the game is and what the tech stack is like, then do deep research on their domain of expertise.
The ability to now have a team of agents working on many different tasks in parallel has saved me significant time. I can freely brain dump all the different ideas I have through out the day without having to wait for my single LLM to free up their context.
Different projects will have different types of agents spun up, but for Impact Soccer it made me 2 different game play coding agents, a graphics designer, a social media manager, a gameplay testing agent, multi-platform performance reviewer, sound and audio agent, project manager/planner, platform compliance agent, and a few others.
Hope this is helpful 🤝
Game Dev Tip:
When using AI to help develop your game, prompt your LLM to analyze your game and create a lineup of multiple different permanent agents (all Opus 5.5 for my setup) that can be assigned to work on different aspects of the game. Then tell the LLM to have each agent to review the project to gain an understanding of what the game is and what the tech stack is like, then do deep research on their domain of expertise.
The ability to now have a team of agents working on many different tasks in parallel has saved me significant time. I can freely brain dump all the different ideas I have through out the day without having to wait for my single LLM to free up their context.
Different projects will have different types of agents spun up, but for Impact Soccer it made me 2 different game play coding agents, a graphics designer, a social media manager, a gameplay testing agent, multi-platform performance reviewer, sound and audio agent, project manager/planner, platform compliance agent, and a few others.
Hope this is helpful 🤝
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the acclaimed designer behind Super Mario and Zelda, has explained why he believes generative AI won’t make human creativity obsolete.
"There will always be a role left for us to play."
videogameschronicle.com/news…
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
AI in video games are a confusing topic to me.
@TimSweeneyEpic recently got a lot of flak for pushing AI in game development.
There are opinion pieces left and right condemning AI use in game development.
Here I am, having worked for ~6 months on a game I released on Steam last week. And my sin, apparently, was using AI and disclosing it.
The comment section was pretty clear on that.
It's confusing to me. AI is a tool. IDE is a tool. A programming language is a tool. A graphics API is a tool. We're just using tools.
I've been writing software for about 3 decades now, I'd like to think that I know what I'm doing and am pretty good at it. I see AI as an incredible productivity booster.
It does some things that I pride myself on being good at, such as teasing out a math formula or optimizing an algorithm better than me most of the time (with a lot of handholding, granted), but for the most part it makes things I find tedious - fast.
As I software engineer, and a game maker, I take relatively little pride in knowing a programming language, or remembering 100 shortcuts in an IDE, or knowing a programming language spec by heart.
I remember the first time I needed to make an animated 3d model, almost 15 years ago now, and it took me about a week of full-time effort to get anywhere. I didn't feel particularly proud, I felt frustrated, I had a clear idea, but the tool and its complexity were getting in the way. Well, the tools are better now. Blender is better, animation tools are better, and there are AI models that keep improving at an incredible pace.
Ultimately, when I write a piece of software, or work on a game - I rarely think about the tools, they are a means to an end, not the point in itself.
From the Anti-AI crowd, who y’all think is more brutal on X? (and prove it with some screenshots of the obnoxiously mean tweets you’ve gotten).
67%Anti-AI Game Dev
33%Anti-AI Art
0%Anti-AI Music
3 votes • Final results
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
My stance in the AI discourse:
- I'm heavily pro-AI but anti-slop.
- I love human creativity & talent, and I don't think they can be replaced by AI. AI has no taste or emotions, which are the main drivers of true art.
- I use AI in almost everything I do/build, but never in a way that compromises quality or harms people. AI should be used to make things possible that weren't possible before, IMO.
- I have empathy for people who feel threatened by AI, especially those who love their craft, be it programming or art, worry that their work might lose value or be automated by AI. The threat is real, and it forces people to rethink and adapt.
- I don't have empathy for people who hate AI simply because they're miserable and want something to hate.
- AI is not what produces slop. It's people with the wrong mindset and a lack of passion for their work who do.
- I don't give a damn about tribalism and don't want any part of it.
Building games is so satisfying. The ability to see your oddball, obnoxious, good/bad ideas come to life is a real treat.
Maybe I have a higher standard than most, but even if you are using AI, it takes some real dedication to make something truly fun and great that people will enjoy (not to claim that I am there yet, but I believe I am on the right path). I’m about 5 months in on building my game. Building games has been the most fun of any project I’ve worked on and hits closest to home as something I am passionate about.
I have had maybe 15-20 failed business attempts/ventures over the years, 1 success, and 1 major success. What I’m trying to say is don’t be afraid to fail, don’t let the loud ones deter you from creating and building. Keep building friends 🤝
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
To all whiny game devs who are crying about AI slop in Steam Next Fest, go read the data on the previous Fest for this year, before collecting tears, group hugs and demanding that "something must be done!"
howtomarketagame.com/2026/07…
Cooking up something fun for y'all. Adding a completely new mechanic that will increase the in-game mayhem. Will explain more soon.
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
Well, as you've probably noticed, there's a controversial discussion going on, and since controversy isn't something I shy away from, I'd like to chip in.
Specifically I would like to show example of using Ai acceleration to achieve YOUR vision while maintain absolute control over the result, hence this thread.
So here's a tool I've made, which I'll talk about a bit more in the comments.
#gamedev #indiedev
First look at the ASCII-inspired Glyphstorm Armor set.
I don't think I've seen ASCII armor like this before in Roblox, but let me know what y'all think!
Dave at ‘Impact Soccer’ retweeted
I’ve been coding regularly since I was 13.
In the last 28 years I can’t remember a single full week where I didn’t write at least a dozen lines of code. I love it.
But in the past two months I haven’t written a single line of code and I’ve accomplished more than ever, thanks to AI. It’s an incredible time to be alive!
I’ve gone full agentic now on the game
I’m developing (9 Opus 5.5 agents). The project has become so complex that it makes sense to have a team of experts versus one single LLM handling everything. Already seeing productivity gains. Would suggest trying it out 👍
We are currently bound by the limits of our imagination. The term “the world is your oyster” has never been more true in current state. We see a lot of technical conversations about what to build, how to build, who is qualified to build, etc. but now that we have the ability to build whatever we want, the next frontier to unlock is your imagination.
I think that imagination is a skill, just like any other technical trait and there are techniques that ANYONE can implement to unleash true freedom of thought.
I am curious what others are doing to exercise and strengthen their imagination. Here are a few things that I am doing:
- Spend 5 minutes a day writing or doodling with your non-dominant hand. I only recently started doing this but I am already seeing the benefits (literally seeing). The idea behind this is you start to exercise the part of your brain which has laid dormant ever since society instilled in you that “you are left hand or you are right handed” and then you proceed to just do everything with that dominant hand which ultimately shuts down that other part of the brain. I’ve noticed that when I write with my write Right hand (I am left handed), I am able to maintain a different perspective as I see the results. It’s like I am just watching from a thoughtless perspective.
- Walk barefoot on grass for 5 minutes a few times a day. The idea here is the large number of pressure points pushing in your feet stimulate the area of the mind that processes that info.
- Get 5 minutes of sunlight within 30 minutes to an hour of waking up. The feel of fresh sunlight in the morning has significantly reduced my brain fog each morning. Again activating a different part of the brain.
- Practice letting go and accepting current circumstances. A worried mind is a hindered mind and that puts a damper on your creativity. I would highly suggest checking out Michael Singer’s podcast to help on this front as he teaches how to learn to let go of things that are bothering you.
That’s it for now 🤝
