Getting Started

Quick-start material — what the platform does and where to begin.

• Platform overviewHow AI Chat Games works — the kinds of games you can build, how the engine runs your code, and where to look next.
• Creating gamesThe hands-on walkthrough of making a game — hit Create and describe what you want; the agent builds a working game you can play immediately; reshape it by chatting ("add a scoreboard", "make the detective more suspicious"); polish the Details (title, tagline, category, description, tags, cover art — the agent can fill these too); publish it to a public page and keep it updated; play someone else's game to get your own editable copy; and how credits and per-game spending limits fit in.
• How games workThe mental model behind every game — a React frontend in your browser plus a backend reducer running sandboxed on our servers; input events processed one at a time into a shared timeline of turns; ticks that let a game act on a clock without the player; many screens (your devices, or several players) connected to one running session; and where the AI characters sit in the loop. Ends with what the platform is and isn't good at.
• Background play, permissions & spending controlsSome games keep playing after you leave — with your permission. What background play is, how a game asks for it, how background actions spend credits, and where the controls live (game Settings — permissions, spending limit, pause). Notifications are a separate per-device permission.