Quickstart

From a sentence to a game you can play and share.

This walkthrough takes you from a blank Studio to a game other people can open. You need a Clevoir account. Guest play is for published games, not for starting a build from the marketing page.

1. Describe the game

From Studio, type one sentence you would use to explain the game to a friend. Strong first prompts cover:

• Genre and camera: top-down crawler, side-scrolling platformer, third-person 3D courtyard.
• Art direction: felt-paper night market, alpine snow, chunky clay, clean pixel tiles.
• The verb: serve dumplings, throw snowballs, clear a board, race a lap.
• Win and lose: the stall closes, the last heart is gone, every mine is flagged.

Say 2D or 3D out loud. Clevoir treats that as a contract, not a suggestion. See Prompting for more.

2. Read the plan

New games start in the plan phase. Before the long build, you get a cover, the mechanics, and the art Clevoir intends to generate. Change the plan in chat if it is wrong. Do not skip it. A first build without a plan is refused. More in Plan phase.

3. Watch the build

After the plan, agents write Godot files, generate original art, and repair what fails when the game is booted. This is real engineering work. Most games are playable within the hour. Ask for depth and the wait is closer to 30 to 50 minutes, not a short loading bar.

The plan screen stays up while code is written, with live status, so you can still see what was agreed. The preview is the exported Godot game, not a placeholder sketch.

4. Play and iterate

When the build lands, play it in the preview pane, then send focused follow-ups:

• Make the jump 20 percent higher.
• The HUD labels overlap the New Game button. Fit them on a 1280 by 720 view.
• Load the generated meshes instead of grey boxes.

One change per prompt is easier to judge than five. For bugs, say what you did, what you expected, and what happened.

5. Publish

When you want a public link, publish from Studio. A published game lives on play.clevoir.games. Listing copy is not enough: Clevoir keeps the current files behind that link. Details in Publishing.