Fun With AI Learning Exercise: Make a Game

I am adding this for my students, and as a small way to bring back my old Dr Fun nickname. The assignment is simple: make something you can play.

Emoji Pong began with a familiar game: two paddles and a ball. Then I asked for emoji paddles, a snack that travels between them, a taller touch-friendly play area, bigger targets, room to drag on a phone, and a local two-player mode. Those requests are design decisions, not magic words. Playing each version made the next request clearer.

Try it in one session

1. Describe a tiny game with one action, one goal, and one way to know who wins. Pong is a good starting point because the rules fit in a sentence.
2. Ask your AI builder for a playable web version. A coding tool or site builder with code editing and preview is enough. You do not need a paid game engine or an app-store account for a browser prototype. To make and host one through ChatGPT Sites, the current public beta is available on Plus, Pro, Business, Enterprise and Edu, subject to plan limits and workspace permissions. A public game can be played without a ChatGPT account. Students can also use another browser-game tool if Sites is unavailable to them. (Sites documentation)
3. Play on a computer and a phone. Ask a friend to try without your explanation. Notice what they attempt first.
4. Make one change at a time: paddle size, speed, touch area, sound, scoring, or contrast. Keep the version you can still play.
5. Ask a second AI to review the game as a beginner, a mobile player, and someone using a keyboard. Then verify the advice by playing.

The live game offers solo play against the computer and 2 PLAYERS (LOCAL). On a keyboard, Player 1 uses W/S and Player 2 uses the arrow keys. On a touch screen, each player can use a side rail. First to seven wins. You can play it here.

A good submission is a playable link, two screenshots, one thing a tester found, and one change made in response. The learning is in the loop: imagine, make, play, notice, revise. If you finish early, change the snack. This is a serious educational exercise with room for silliness. Dr Fun would approve.