Amazon Q CLI Games challenge - Flappy qUfo

Sergei Cherkasov — Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:49:53 +0000

Thats my submission for the "Build Games with Amazon Q Developer CLI".

I decided to go with a Flappy Birds like game. But styled it in retro arcade and replaced the bird with a saucer 🛸- named it Flappy qUfo.

First of all I requested Q CLI to plan the game and then let it build it. It did a good job on a first try. Then I asked for additional features like customized character and background, retro music, sharable score card. All of which, Q CLI easily added.

For character customization we used devices camera to make a picture of a user, then passing it to a Mediapipe to remove background, and finally pixelate it for styling.
If customized, you can download and share your score card with you as a saucer pilot, otherwise as an default alien.

Overall, Q is great code buddy and this contest was fun.

Try play the Flappy qUfo on mobile device and share your result on social media.
I deployed game to Cloudflare Pages:
https://flappy-qufo-game-challenge.pages.dev/

Check my score card:

Or use codepen to play right here, but unfortunately score card sharing feature wont work.

And here is the github repo: https://github.com/srgchrksv/flappy-qUfo-game-challenge

🛠️Happy coding and playing!!!👽

Qhaleeji Safari | Q Developer

Sergei Cherkasov — Sun, 11 May 2025 23:14:14 +0000

This is a submission for the Amazon Q Developer "Quack The Code" Challenge: That's Entertainment!

What I Built

Me and Q build a simple driving game.🚗

Because Q is Amazon and on 21st of this month AWS summit is happening in Dubai I decided to theme game in Arabic Gulf- Khaleeji. With my expat view.

Game play is simple:

Demo

🕹️ Try playing the game in embedded Codepen below:

Code Repository

Github repo for this game is at:
https://github.com/srgchrksv/qhaleeji-safari

How I Used Amazon Q Developer

Q helped to write all the code. Reliable team mate 🤝

It was fun, thanks Dev.to and AWS for the contest.

Disclaimer: Im not affiliated with AWS, Dev.to and neither am a representative of local culture. All images are AI generated. Game is around 99% AI generated.

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