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My tools that are coming soon and compatible with Godot are my Unity Card Game Toolkit—which will become the Godot Card Game Toolkit—and my level editor, which I'm currently developing.

My tools that are coming soon and compatible with Godot are my Unity Card Game Toolkit—which will become the Godot Card Game Toolkit—and my level editor, which I'm currently developing.

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I'm on the fence about releasing my tool to make level design in Unity easier. Well, my friend Godot developers, you'll see my tools available on Godot soon. #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #IA

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I'm on the fence about releasing my tool to make level design in Unity easier. Well, my friend Godot developers, you'll see my tools available on Godot soon. #GameDev #IndieDev #Unity3D #IA

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However, if you're a game developer interested in the Unity Card Game Toolkit, you can take a look👇 diane-claus.itch.io/cardgametool... #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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While my tool it's a tool designed by a game developer for all game developers who want to create a card game Because, yes, I've already created card games, and I've run into problems that developers might encounter #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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Either the “vibe coders” create a mediocre video game, or—when they do create an excellent video game—the idea and game design are stolen from another creator (a video game studio or an independent solo developer) to address a game design problem. #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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I see a lot—and I mean a lot—of “vibe coders” creating games without having any design skills whatsoever. These are the same people who think that all you need to create a great game is the ability to code #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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To everyone who supports AI Here's my tool Unity Card Game Toolkit created by a real human that AI can't create Why am I saying this? #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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However, if you're a game developer interested in the Unity Card Game Toolkit, you can take a look👇 diane-claus.itch.io/cardgametool... #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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Diane Claus @dianecls-dev.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To everyone who supports AI Here's my tool Unity Card Game Toolkit created by a real human that AI can't create Why am I saying this? #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame

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Whenever I talk about my projects (tools, games), I’m always afraid that some Bro AI jerk will steal my ideas and market them before I do. But the problem is, if I don’t promote my projects, no one will know what I’m doing. Let’s stand together against these thieves #gamedev #indiedev #ia

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Someone recreated my game with AI and is now threatening to publish it on Steam unless I pay him $200. Obviously, I'm not paying. First video: my actual game. Second video: the AI-generated clone. He apparently found my game through Twitter, fed it into an AI tool, and recreated what he saw. Now…

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Diane Claus @dianecls-dev.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

In your opinion, what am I working on in Unity? #GameDev #IndieDev #MadeWithUnity

Pixel art of a ghost wandering through the night

The same pixel art ghost recreated in Unity

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To make an excellent card game, you need to focus a lot on balancing. And to help you focus on that, I've created the Unity Card Game Toolkit for you. diane-claus.itch.io/cardgametool... #GameDev #CardGame #IndieDev #BoardGame

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A new argument from bros AI “Yes, we have the right to use generative AI in our games because AAA studios do it.” You know I'm boycotting Level-5 and other AAA studios for their use of generative AI #AI #GameDev #AAA

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I should point out that I used data from the year 2025

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It's true that it's hard to polish everything—especially the balance—to make an excellent card game. And yes, the early access versions counted.

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It's the easiest to produce, but it's hard to make an excellent JBuilder roguelike because many game developers cut corners on assets. In fact, I've created a toolkit to make the task even easier: the Unity Card Game Toolkit diane-claus.itch.io/cardgametool... #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame #Steam

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As a reminder, 212 roguelike deckbuilders had been released, and 11 of them had surpassed 1,000 Steam reviews While it's true that only 5.1% but they are less expensive than multiplayer FPS games and open-world games. #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame #Steam

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Do you know which genre one of the best ratios of commercial potential to production volume for a solo PC developer? It's the roguelite deckbuilder. #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame #Steam

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Do you know which genre one of the best ratios of commercial potential to production volume for a solo PC developer? It's the roguelite deckbuilder. #GameDev #IndieDev #CardGame #Steam

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And if you really want to start from scratch, you can also create your own games from scratch.

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If you want well-coded frameworks, you should focus primarily on those available on the Unity Asset Store for Unity and Fab Lab for Unreal Engine (because they prevent their marketplaces from being flooded with poor-quality frameworks by vetting them).

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You can find these frameworks directly on the Unity Asset Store, Fab Lab, Gumroad, Itch io, or even on other marketplaces. Some of them are even free.

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It’s also worth noting that code written by a human for a framework is much cleaner than code generated by AI, because the developer has time to learn the basics of programming and become familiar with design patterns.

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I've also noticed that a lot of vibe coder don't playtest their games. Sure, the game is functional, but it has a lot of game design issues, as in this example

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Why was I saying that? Because the developers who created these frameworks have already used their own frameworks to build their own games, so they know what other developers want and what problems they might encounter.

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Okay, I'm going to dive deeper into the topic of my last post, which was about the coding vibe in game development I was saying that if you're prototyping quickly, it's better to use frameworks created by other developers than AI.

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And if you really want to start from scratch, you can also create your own games from scratch.

You can find these frameworks directly on the Unity Asset Store, Fab Lab, Gumroad, Itch io, or even on other marketplaces. Some of them are even free.

I've also noticed that a lot of vibe coder don't playtest their games. Sure, the game is functional, but it has a lot of game design issues, as in this example

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