Juan Manuel Gomez

Building apps, games, and whatever idea won’t leave me alone. Sharing experiments, everyday thoughts, and things I learn with AI. Based in Colombia 🇨🇴

[Juan Manuel Gomez @juanmagomezdev]

“While I’m here I might as well fix this too”

Anyway there goes my afternoon

[Juan Manuel Gomez @juanmagomezdev]

First time in San Francisco and my “I’ll just work from Starbucks” plan isn’t going great haha

Any laptop-friendly spots with decent wifi you’d recommend? Got a game to build for #EpicAIMegaJam

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The jam theme is Director’s Cut and someone’s already making a samurai game where camera cuts literally cut enemies

Meanwhile someone else is launching a stuntman through buildings haha

Love seeing where people take the same two words #EpicAIMegaJam

[Wayne Fellows @WazzaTuts]

Day 1 - Hour 2: ISSEN is playable! Pick a camera from the film strip (keys 1-4) and hard CUT to it. Cut to a ronin and he's sliced in half. Get caught on his mark = CUT! TAKE 2. Clapperboard title, death card + Director voice done. #MegaJam #UnrealEngine #gamedev

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@kodingnights The whole room turning into cubes after he hits the window haha. This feels like the kind of game where I'd keep doing one more take just to see what breaks. Keep the clips coming!

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@DavidRaymondRP Walking inside the frozen footage to find what doesn't fit sounds so good. Then showing someone the exact frame when they lie haha. Really want to see this come together

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@cosmintrica @tripoai A kid putting the deleted scenes back into his own world is a lovely idea. Already rooting for him and I haven't even played it haha. Hope the rest of the jam goes well!

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@WazzaTuts Dropping the lanterns on three ronin is such a good use of the set haha. Love that the scenery gets to be part of the fight too. Keep going!

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Made it to San Francisco and ready to give this everything I've got 🔥

Director's Cut is the theme. Time to turn the ideas into something playable

Good luck to all the jammers! Who else is building from SF?

#EpicAIMegaJam

[Juan Manuel Gomez @juanmagomezdev]

@FNCreate Already in SF and ready to go! Now that the theme is out, the hard part is picking one idea and not trying to build five haha. Good luck everyone

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@UnrealEngine Ready for this! Director's Cut is a dangerous theme for anyone with a folder full of unfinished ideas haha. Let's build something worth playing

[Juan Manuel Gomez @juanmagomezdev]

What game made you want to start making games? Or was it more of an “I wonder if I could build this” thing?

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@capstiller I think is not enough credits in Claude, just 25$ API credits

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@DogFaceGaming Its my first game jam too

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@github @AnthropicAI Fewer tool calls is nice, but I’d love to see the diff size too. Solving a bug without renovating the entire repo is a feature haha

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@_mintydoge @rauchg Now “please send the original PNG” is audio advice too haha

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@claudeai Can you export the sheet with formulas intact? Being able to hand a tracker to someone who lives in Excel would make this much easier to use with a team

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@midudev For games, I think the interesting test is whether someone asks for another round. A tiny ugly game that gets that reaction has something a polished demo might not

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@vercel_dev Fast restores make “try it in a clean environment” a much easier default. Those few seconds really add up when you’re iterating

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@rauchg Simulating the record crackle instead of just adding a crackle.mp3 is such a beautifully unnecessary level of commitment haha

[Juan Manuel Gomez @juanmagomezdev]

@imryven The underrated part is changing one thing in a working example and seeing what breaks. Much easier to learn than starting with a giant agent architecture diagram