I am a complete beginner to game dev. I just started about 3 months ago. For my learner project I decided to rebuild a game I LOVED as a kid. This is the 1992 Sega Strategy RPG Shining Force.
This is playable on WEB at my itch io account with about 3-4Hs of content, save states etc. I built Abilities into each character and added a new town and a new character. Its at :
Shining Force 1 - Fan Remake by Exped1ter
Obviously I used AI to help me make this as I would NEVER have been able to do this without it.
The Tools i used were Photoshop , Cursor , and Grok with GODOT as the renderer. I didn't like using the GODOT editor to make the game so i made my own editors and designed the game to be data driven.
I don't want to make this an AI slop vs non AI dev. What i wanted to show is how much someone can get done with current tools and with complete beginner skills. This obviously has flaws and is not perfect, I don't plan to sell or make anything from this ( I cant its not my IP) . I'm interested what actual Devs think of this other than " its AI i hate it" I put a lot of work into this and I am kind of excited what future tools will allow solo dev to do with gaming and original IP.
if you have any questions ill answer anything on how I built this.