Construct 3 in the AI agent era — what actually makes sense?

I hope most of you try vibe coding some ai slop. It really started clicking in Dec of 2025 and with the new models this month it is greatly improved. If you want to write games without coding it fits the bill and it is just so much fun.

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For New Year's, I made a gift-hunting game. Gemini impersonated Mortimer the Raven and asked everyone dark riddles in verse, in the style of William Blake.

While I was vibecoding the game, I was amazed by its ability to generate unique rhyming riddles for the same word. Each one sounded like medieval wisdom.

envoys -- ai studio wants to put api calls to gemini flash into the code for things like your rhymes. Did you use the api for this? Also, for your more complex application why don't you use antigravity instead of ai studio? You get free time on opus 4.6 and sonnet 4.6 if you use antigravity.

The fact that everyone will use AI then if you don't will be behind is the same like saying everyone is stealing/killing/committing violence, if you are not doing it you will be behind.

No, you're twisting the argument. We want to use AI for good. What you're saying is "Criminals use knives to rob and kill people, therefore we must not use knives for hunting or cooking."

> Still many miss the ethical point

I'm not a fricking philosopher I'm here to make web games and farm moola from kids playing them

Vibecoding go brrrrr and u go back to your english major classes or something

You don't need to be a philosopher to understand what medium and long term economy consequences will be. If you are able to program a game, you should have already the math and logic knowledge to forecast what the consequences will be.

dop2000 I know that you want to use it for good, but the tool you are using is not comparable to a knife, but more to borrowing from a credit card company to pay the interest of another credit card. Yes, you can kick the can with good intention for a while, but you end up bringing not only you, but the whole family to a disastrous situation.

The fact is that you don't control AI, but you are at its mercy, or better at the mercy of who controls it. You can see what they are doing with digital currencies, sold to people as convenience, but used as tool to control people. Where they can take money away from you with a click, o better AI will do it according to what you have done or not. Likewise, you will be able to use AI only if you are an obedient citizen, therefore the tools and devices you are using that relies on AI to work (example future Construct) will be working for you only if you obey to whatever will be pushed down to you. Keep using AI is only going to accelerate to move towards a dystopian future.

There is always the option to don't do something, that might seems a burden now, but will be a better investment for everyone's future. And for those that says that it's not possible to stop it, think about many examples of similar things that happened in the past. Who would have bet for example, that unarmed Indian men could win against armed British colonists? Sometimes, it just need to take courage and take action.

For the ones that instead don't care about all the things that I am saying, think that a good part of your potential players will not buy your game because it's done using AI. You have the option to lie to them and say that you don't use it, I am sure many will do it, as someone seems not caring like AmogusJS, but if things comes out you might face a big backlash from your users. Same things applies to anyone producing software, hardware, goods, services, etc. Recent history shown how people reacted when things where forced upon them with famous brand in the past years.

envoys -- ai studio wants to put api calls to gemini flash into the code for things like your rhymes. Did you use the api for this? Also, for your more complex application why don't you use antigravity instead of ai studio? You get free time on opus 4.6 and sonnet 4.6 if you use antigravity.

Antigravity cool program. The main thing is not to spend more time setting it up than on the project itself :)

Hello, everyone. I don't usually post here, or anywhere, but this is a fascinating conversation and I want in.

I wanna start by asking: did you know Claude can understand C3P files? I've been using it to debug and restructure messy code from my old projects and it's saving me days of work in a few minutes.

Right now I'm trying to teach it to create new C3P files by analyzing their ZIP64 structure and trying to replicate it. Just for fun, I wanna see how far it can go.

AIs are amazing, guys! They're as innovative as the internet once was and I'm all about it now. It's a very useful tool and no, it does NOT replace us in any way, but empowers us to achieve more in much less time.

dop2000 I love your prototypes, man. Learned so much from them, thank you for your amazing contribution to the community.

I'm really surprised that AI is so vehemently rejected by some in a genre where sooner or later all products will include some form of AI.

I think a lot of users use Construct precisely because(!) it's easy to develop well-functioning games or other things with it compared to other programming languages or game engines.

If you don't want any help or support for your super serious game development, you should probably choose a different tool altogether.

What I'm reading between the lines is a fear that soon even beginners will be able to create something that took the long-term users a long time to learn.

There is no reason for this fear. It is the same fear that afflicted professional groups such as DTP experts and photographers many years ago. There, too, many were afraid that their “secret art" would suddenly be available to everyone.

In the end, however, not much really changed. There are now many amateurs in the field of DTP and photography, BUT there are still professionals.

I myself often teach children and young people their first coding experiences. And of course, this target group really wants to program games. I would love to offer these kids Construct as a programming tool. And AI help would be a wonderful thing for this target group.

No more long searches for the right (!) keywords in the manual, no need to ask their questions in English in the forum, and ABOVE ALL, no more endless waiting times until maybe (!) someone posts an answer.

How perfect would it be if these kids could work with AI that answers their questions immediately(!), provides them with suitable example snippets, and scans their code and identifies possible errors?

Anyone who opposes this is only trying to cement their elitist status. This is not helpful for Construct as a product, nor for the acquisition of new users and user groups.

AI is just a tool. But like all tools, it depends on who uses it and how it's used. AI is not going away, and it will do amazing things for humanity, but it will also end up doing some of the most horrific things you can't imagine yet. AI is only as good or bad as we choose to make it and we are already seeing a lot of both.

So interesting reading everyone's comments about it. Seeing who in the community is selfish, greedy, lazy, moral, practical, responsible, etc. All good information to have, without having to ask. Just people freely telling you who they are. Topics like these are always so much fun to read!

I'm making an account just to explain why this example isn't very good and also to give and take points for the implementation of AI.

Around 3 weeks ago, I was in this position. Didn't know how to use arrays, dictionaries, i didn't even know tweens existed.

Oh yeah? If I search for "array" in the examples, I get 65 matches — and none of them immediately answer a basic question like "how do I find a specific number in an array?"

I figured out how to find a specific number in the arrays just by messing around in construct using trial and error. I got it in my third try. Also, if the person checking out the examples bothers to even look at the code and try to understand it, they will figure it out very easily through reverse engineering.

If AI was added to combat this issue, I personally think it would be a positive. having a robot over your shoulder helping you is awesome. Super good for the slower and naturally inept (not to their fault of course, they were just dealt a bad hand.)

HOWEVER. You should NOT EVER just go and ask ChatGPT what stuff does. People have tutorials and there's documentation for a reason. Go to chatGPT DEAD LAST.

And many beginners don’t even know the examples exist.

Examples are like the first thing I saw when i started construct. They are so obvious and the website makes it so painfully clear they exist and are available that the people that don't know they exist are actual children or just ignorant.

I'm old-school - if I have a question, I check the documentation and Google. Five years ago beginners learned from YouTube tutorials. These days, people use AI - half the forum posts now start with "I asked ChatGPT first but…"

This is the problem. I'm surprised you didn't realize. People asking ChatGPT about code it's never seen in an engine it doesn't know works is why most people are against AI in the first place. This point you bring up is directly against AI and makes your Pro-AI argument crumble. I've never and WILL NEVER use ChatGPT for coding. I suck it up and use tutorials and check the documentation. The way The coding gods INTENDED.

That's the new reality. Like it or not.

Unfortunately, he's right. However, you can help by pitching in and helping newbies in forum posts so they don't go to ChatGPT!

Many beginners now instinctively turn to GPT first when trying to solve a problem, but they often receive answers that look correct on the surface yet don’t fully match how Construct actually works.

Aaaand this is why most people give up or turn to vibe coding. They rely on stuff like this. I just used tutorials and documentation when I was stuck, and it was magnitudes better than what Chatgpt could do.