ERiN WALKER

Chief sheep herder at the Walker Group & Launchround (where I build internet things). Also Husband + Dad + Son 🏆 @pencilbible

[Naithan Jones @NaithanJones]

For men, the family vacation with your kids and partner is the apex of life, especially after the kids are passed the age of 7

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Me to Claude this morning:

" I can't believe you can cure cancer, but you can't move the icons in the navbar left!!!!!"

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

I get thousands of emails every week - but the one that keeps me from drowning is @ShaanVP 's 5 TWEET TUESDAY one 👊🏻 https://t.co/GkDXSi5NeB => 100% my favourite to read (when going to the loo)

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Best album ever 🙏🏻

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Create an iOS app icon based on this image. The icon should fill the entire image. Apply no icon mask or border radius. Image should be square 1024x1024 with no transparency. Respect the golden ratio (1:1.618). Essential content (logos, visuals) should be within ~80%-85% of the icon's width/height. Embrace simplicity. Prefer a simple background that emphasises the primary image. Prefer vector graphics over photos or screenshots, which lose clarity at small sizes.

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Want to create clean, polished iOS App icons? I tried Chat, Claude and Gemini. Gemeni wins hands down.

Prompt:

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Day 12: Building a Wright Brothers-inspired flying game!
Refine refine refine refine... I made the desert look more diverse by adding some grass and triangular poly sand to add depth. Fixed a ton of little things as well. I'm thinking more and more now about what the actual gameplay will be....

#buildinpublic #gamedev #vibegames #avgeek #aviation #gamedev #indiedev #WrightBrothers #flightsim #indiegame @rork

[Naval @naval]

Vibe coding is more addictive than any video game ever made (if you know what you want to build).

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

@ShaanVP Seni it baby

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Finetuning - made the grass smaller and ensured they don't float but sit flush on the sand.

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Day 11: Building a Wright Brothers-inspired flying game!
Prompt fatigue. To add more detail to the empty beach, I tried planting some grass. The self-generated grass sucked, so I got a bunch of usdz files. For some reason, RORK just couldn't add it to the sand and kept laying the grass at a 90-degree angle.

@rork
#buildinpublic #gamedev #vibegames #avgeek #aviation #gamedev #indiedev #WrightBrothers #flightsim #indiegame

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

So I went back to self-generated grass. 🤷🏻

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

@Jahjiren Also building a game... Live tweeting. Stressing about marketing though 🤮

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

I tried prompting again in my own words. And can you believe it... Look how pretty it is now!

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Day 10: Building a Wright Brothers-inspired flying game!
Lots of fine-tuning, including wind, landscape, and glider design. Ton's if repromting. I wanted the sea to look more realistic than just a flat, blue surface. This took many prompts. I fed it beautiful examples and explained, but to no avail.
@rork

#buildinpublic #gamedev #vibegames #avgeek #aviation #gamedev #indiedev #WrightBrothers #flightsim #indiegame

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

So I went to the Rork Forum for advice. A user kindly told me to use the import USDZ files. That's the only way. I took two days of testing, but it could not stitch the images together. In between gaps and a floating issue, this was not going to work.

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Now I have a level 1 and a level 4 Wright plane. Still need to fine-tune the environment. The sand is too white, and the sea looks like crap.

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

Day 9: Building a Wright Brothers-inspired flying game!

I'm starting to think of gameplay and levels now. My first idea is to make each level a year and a different Wright brothers plane. From 1900, with the Wright glider, to 2010, with the flight around the Statue of Liberty. Claude helped with the prompt and even a way to unlock the game for developer mode so I select each level for testing.

@rork

#buildinpublic #gamedev #vibegames

[ERiN WALKER @ErinChampWalker]

I had to move the glider up the hill and figure out how to launch it. This took many iterations to get the right launch speed and angle. I also added some flags.