Hi everyone,

I'm building my first game alone with AI. It's called Kiosk Days, a cozy pixel-art game where you run a little kiosk on a village square. The AI (Claude) writes the code and the scripts that draw the pixel art, I decide what goes into the game.

I was really proud of it, so I gave it to my kids to get some feedback. It took them forever to get into it. They kept asking "what do I have to do next?" and "where is the wholesaler?", even though there were already arrows in the game showing the way. And in the comments from the game jam people told me the same. One person never got the day started at all.

So I let the AI build a tutor. And who do kids ask when they don't know what to do? Grandma :)

Her name is Claudia. She ran this kiosk for forty years and now it's yours, so at the same time I got the story of how you got the kiosk. She stays with you for your first four days and shows you one thing at a time, instead of everything at once. If you already know the game you can skip her, and you can pick her up again in the pause menu.

She came into the game with version 0.4.0 on November 2, so she is still very new and I don't know yet if she really works. That's what I would love to know:

1. Did you get lost anywhere in your first days?

2. Does Claudia help you or is she kind of annoying?

You can play it for free in your browser: https://kigaro-games.itch.io/kiosk-days

I'll post here when something new comes into the game.

Thanks!

Michael