How to Build Your First Game with AI: A Step-by-Step Guide

This guide compares three no-code routes to a first game—AI game builders like Manus, visual event-sheet engines GDevelop and Construct 3, and block-based Scratch—and stresses that game design, not tooling, is the hard part. It provides a fill-in-the-blanks game brief template and a walkthrough of building a 2D robot platformer in Manus, from prompt and Game Blueprint through playtesting, tuning, and publishing a shareable link.