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A 5-hour game that would cost $2M and 2 to 3 years the traditional way took one RYFT dev a week and a few hundred dollars. The team behind RYFT (@RYFTCORP), @wilhelmsenchris and @neutanent, explains how. RYFT is an AI-powered gaming platform where one prompt builds a playable game in about 15 minutes, and every game can launch with its own token. Before RYFT, Nomad and Neuro built Neural, whose token went from a 50K market cap to a $175M all-time high on Ethereum. RYFT reported about 2,500 games and more than 10,000 accounts in its first 15 days. On today’s episode: why Web3 gaming broke last cycle, how a single prompt becomes a playable game, what surprised them once people started building, and how every game launches with its own token. Timestamps 0:39 - 10 Million Lines of Code From Scratch 1:45 - From 50K to 175M Market Cap 2:55 - CTO Was on NVIDIA AI in 2015 6:15 - The Web3 Gaming Cycle Scam 11:17 - Gaming Never Had Its YouTube Moment 19:22 - We Didn't Know If Anyone Would Show Up 29:33 - Kickstarter on Steroids for Games 31:13 - Web3 Gaming Is BACK

Gaming is the single biggest opportunity in AI right now 2027 will be an absolute gold rush for anyone who dedicates the time to build a game with AI Gaming is BY FAR the biggest entertainment industry on Earth Double the size of the ENTIRE movie, music, and U.S. sports industry combined (NFL, NBA, NHL, MLB) Over the past year the economics of gaming has completely collapsed. Despite the industry making over $200 billion a year, it has become completely unaffordable to make good games anymore The work needed to make a detailed game that keeps up with today's tech is beyond comprehension This is where AI comes in. AI fixes those economics AI allows solo devs to build the AAA games of their dreams with very little resources. The thing is the gaming industry up to this point has completely rejected AI. This won't last much longer though. Disruption is coming and quite literally nothing is going to stop it The first domino fell today. Asha the CEO of Xbox announced Xbox Labs today. This appears to be one of the first times a major gaming brand is embracing the disruption (for the record Asha has done an INCREDIBLE job being the shepherd of the Xbox brand) It is so painfully obvious where all of this is going. In the next 12 months every digital game store will be filled with AAA quality, incredibly fun games built entirely with AI by a single developer The $200 billion flowing through the gaming industry will be redirected from massive studios with thousands of devs to solo developers/small teams embracing the latest tech The largest entertainment industry in the world will be 100% owned by indie AI developers. Hundreds of billions of dollars up for grabs And unlike other sectors of software, gaming has built in moats. One of the last moats in software will be network effects If I build a community based piece of software that has a million users and you build the exact same piece of software and it has 0 users, everyone will buy my software instead Gaming encapsulates this perfectly. If you build a banger multiplayer game that has millions of players, even if someone copies you and builds the exact same game, you're going to win because of network effects This is one of those moments. One of those moments where the future is so obvious and so clear. AI is about to disrupt a multi hundred billion dollar industry and every penny of that will be up for grabs. There is absolutely no reason why you can't be one of the people who capitalizes on this Download Claude Code. Download Codex. Whatever your choice is, just get it. Then start building the game of your dreams GTA 6 will be a landmark game for many reasons. One of those reasons is it will be the one of the last AAA games from a massive developer studio. That model doesn't work anymore. The new model is you. A person with an idea and access to the most powerful technology ever created. Don't screw this opportunity up.