My litmus test for generative AI: generate a complete spritesheet for a 2D pixel art action game, e.g. only for the battle tank or main hero movements. No success so far.

in this case, no. it's a client game and performance isn't at all critical, so the state and loop could be trivially handled by a regular js function. if at some point a server architecture was desired, it would be trivial to host that function on node.

my take: as a backend developer he was fixated with the idea of having a server no matter what (if your only tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail), and as go was his main language he just went with that. then he figured out it didn't really have a point, but instead of just translating that simple logic to js he overengineered the whole thing and overcomplicated his design and build process by transpiling to wasm.

there are some bugs, though. i just won a couple of matches at escoba (very nice little game, i hadn't played this for ... decades!) and the game state wasn't properly reset for the next. that's probably the llm ...

A developer who can build a game by hand in 24 hours could probably build and publish something very polished and professional on Steam within 3 days using LLMs, which leads to some kind of software Fermi paradox: where are all the games??

The only reason I can think of is some sort of virtue signaling, like to promote one self. But even then why not spending ~6 months and super polish the game that would make you look like a rockstar? Eventually using ai in the process to learn where it can be useful... otherwise i don't understand