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๐ŸŽฎ From Prompt to Play: My Game Made with Amazon Q CLI

James Moro on June 22, 2025

Recently, I saw an announcement right here on dev.to about the Build Games with Amazon Q CLI challenge promoted by AWS. The idea is simple: use Ama...
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Prema Ananda

I just launched it and it immediately told me that I had destroyed all the enemies

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James Moro

Hi! I checked your GitHub profile and saw that there are no contributions yet, but you're absolutely right: the message you received was incorrect. I've just updated the game to fix this behavior. Thanks a lot for pointing it out! ๐Ÿ™Œ

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Prema Ananda

works well! the first time I didn't understand that I needed to enter the name from github

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Nevo David

This is super legit - actually love seeing what folks build with these tools and now I wanna mess with Amazon Q too.

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James Moro

You can build a lot of cool stuff, thanks for the comment @nevodavid

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Jose Florez

Wow

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Coffee Diva

interesting output. Might give Amazon Q a try later

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James Moro

Nice!

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Ricardo Sueiras

Love this!

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James Moro

@094459 thanks!

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Helitha Rupasinghe

Awesome!

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James Moro

@hr21don thanks!

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Nathan Tarbert

Pretty cool, I love seeing someone actually ship a full game just from messing around with a new tool

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James Moro

It's really cool, more things could be added like sound, difficulty levels, thanks for the comment

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Gaurav Aggarwal

Really cool project, James! Loved how you used Amazon Q CLI to build a game. Super inspiring stuff!๐Ÿš€๐ŸŽฎ

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James Moro

Thanks for the feedback @aggarwal_gaurav_1012๐Ÿš€

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v. Splicer

Very neat. This inspires me to do the same... amazon Q - stop hiding, its time to work!

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Karina

How do you get to know about these challenges? whats the source

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James Moro

It appeared to me as an ad here in the sidebar of the dev.to website

Source: community.aws/content/2y6egGcPAGQs...