How I Used AI to Build an 80s-Style Game in a Few Days

Intro An AWS Summit booth. A retro game. A LEGO Game Boy as the prize. That's basically the brief my company gave us for an internal contest called the "INO INO Gameboy Challenge": build a simple, 80s-style game that people can play in 10–30 seconds at the stand, with AI tools fully allowed and even encouraged. I couldn't say no to that. In this post I'll walk through how I'm designing and building my entry, which AI tools I'm using along the way, and the trade-offs between "retro feel" and "pla