Indie Dev
8 posts on Sorceress about indie dev.
How to Make a 2D Platformer in Unity (No Asset Store)
The honest 2026 path for how to make a 2D platformer in Unity with no Asset Store — Quick Sprites for the sprite sheet, AI Image Gen for the tileset, WizardGenie for the jump physics and ground detection, Sorceress Code for inline edits. Verified May 31, 2026.
How to Make a 2D Game in Unreal Engine (Browser AI Stack)
The honest 2026 path for how to make a 2D game in Unreal Engine — Quick Sprites for the sprite sheet, AI Image Gen for the Paper 2D tileset, WizardGenie’s eight-model picker for the C++ and Blueprint glue, and Sorceress Code for inline edits. Verified against Unreal Engine 5.7 on May 30, 2026.
How to Make a 2D Game in Unity (Browser-Native AI)
The honest 2026 path for how to make a 2D game in Unity — Quick Sprites for the sprite sheet, AI Image Gen for the tiles, WizardGenie’s eight-model picker for the C#, and Sorceress Code for inline edits. Browser-native, no Unity AI credit treadmill. Verified against Unity 6.3 LTS on May 30, 2026.
How to Make a 2D Game in Godot (Browser AI Pipeline)
The honest 2026 pipeline for how to make a 2D game in Godot — Quick Sprites for the sprite sheet, AI Image Gen for the backgrounds, Sound Studio for the audio, and WizardGenie’s 8-model picker for the GDScript. Verified against Godot 4.6.3 on May 26, 2026.
Bake Generative AI for Game Development (2026 Stack)
The honest 2026 stack for generative AI for game development — six browser tools that turn a prompt into a playable game without an engine install, a Photoshop license, or a DAW. Verified against the live source on May 26, 2026.
I Shipped My First Game in 3 Weeks Using Sorceress. Here’s What I Learned
I shipped my first game in 3 weeks using Sorceress by cutting scope hard, building one playable loop first, then using AI for code, art, audio, QA, and publishing.
Real Vibe Coding Apps (What Indies Built in 2026)
The real vibe coding apps that shipped in 2025 and 2026 are not throwaway demos. fly.pieter.com is a multiplayer browser flight sim at MRR. ShiftNex hit ARR in five months. Lumoo crossed ARR in nine. Q Group did in 48 hours.
What Is Vibe Coding? (And Why It's Eating Indie Game Dev)
Vibe coding sounded like a joke. It ended up being the thing most indie game devs actually do now. Here's what vibe coding is, why it works for games specifically, and what a real session looks like.