Video games have always been a guilty pleasure of mine. When I was a kid, my mom gave away my Nintendo while I was at summer camp, which was a devastating betrayal at the time and only fueled my love for gaming. These days I play Fortnite, Roblox, and Minecraft with my kids and even decided to turn some of my ideas into a video game using Grok, the AI assistant from xAI.
Let’s be clear, I’m not a programmer. In fact, my computer science teacher in college once told me I should probably “stick to writing” and he did not mean code. However, using Grok to make my ideas for a video game come to life was surprisingly easy. So easy that the prompt I started with was, “I want to make a game.” From there, Grok helped me go from daydreamer to developer.
