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My first day with Antigravity

I know I didn't write anything for while - mainly because I was really busy at work but starting from yesterday (Dec 17th), I'm in my holiday break so I have time/energy to look into interesting things.

First I got study/research topic with Gemini (based on few topics that I was interested - I made a LinkedIn post so please take a look if you are interested)

I was planning to spend first 2 days looking into some (at least to me) fairly complex technology mashups but you know what? Antigravity actually one shot it and I was kind of done what I wanted to do by noon so I expand my research a bit into some "fun" stuff - which is to develop a very simple game.

Again I had some chat with Chat GPT (to refine scenario) and Gemini (to come up with good starting prompt) and then feed into Agent Manager and see where it will take me. I was actually blown by the fact that it can get something up and running (although VERY simple)

I maybe work with it for ~3 hours top, but I already got basic wiring of various game scenes working together (I've worked on similar game development in the past so I kind of knew what to ask)

But ... be able to get random generated world with n x m size randomized and be able to provide scroll capability is something I struggle a lot back in days when I work on my old game (that time I was working with Android 0.6 - so there is no good library for me to choose so I have to write everything and I remember the bug I created) So the fact that I already have

  • world scene where I can move around
  • I can only see adjacent tiles (Civ style)
  • I can pretend I'm talking to someone
  • I can pretend I'm in the battle, where I got cards and fight with monsters
  • ***I have a trigger to force rebuild world

The last point is crucial for what I want to build so the fact that I got this much in first day is out of my expectation BY FAR and it's all thanks to Antigravity so if you want to try but haven't, I'll strongly recommend you to check it out!

Lastly here is a link to screencast - I know it's laughable but for those of you who tried to do this manually in the past will know why I feel Antigravity is a real beast. Even doing this could take weeks, if not months!

https://youtube.com/shorts/I2h6ohO9jHE

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