{"id":14065,"date":"2025-05-12T09:20:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14065"},"modified":"2025-05-12T09:21:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T16:21:21","slug":"newbie-vibe-coded-a-top-ranked-mobile-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14065","title":{"rendered":"Newbie vibe coded a top-ranked mobile game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ron decided to learn to code in 2024. He proceed to use AI to vibe-code a game called Letterlike. It&#8217;s now one of the <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3424020\/Letterlike\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/3424020\/Letterlike\/\">top ranked mobile games on Steam<\/a> and the #1 paid word game on Android.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" data-attachment-id=\"14066\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=14066\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"600,337\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"image\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?fit=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?fit=600%2C337&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?resize=600%2C337&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14066\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?w=600&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?resize=300%2C169&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2025\/05\/image.png?resize=481%2C270&amp;ssl=1 481w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>He <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1kh3wwt\/how_i_went_from_no_code_to_launching_a_game_thats\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/gamedev\/comments\/1kh3wwt\/how_i_went_from_no_code_to_launching_a_game_thats\/\">tells his story on this reddit post<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vibe coding is here. People are building viable commercial products with less than a year of coding experience. Sure this isn&#8217;t a solution that needs a lot of security like an online service, but here it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ron decided to learn to code in 2024. He proceed to use AI to vibe-code a game called Letterlike. It&#8217;s now one of the top ranked mobile games on Steam and the #1 paid word game on Android. He tells his story on this reddit post. Vibe coding is here. People are building viable commercial products with less than a year of coding experience. Sure this isn&#8217;t a solution that needs a lot of security like an online service, but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=14065\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,9,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ai","category-cool","category-technicalprogramming"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-3ER","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14065"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14069,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14065\/revisions\/14069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}