AI game maker, online and free: half of that is true here

What a free AI game maker gives you is defined on that page.

Free is accurate. The download costs nothing, the world builder costs nothing, and you do not need a card to start. Flockbay is free on your own AI: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, your own agent, or an API key.

Online is not. Flockbay is a desktop application for Windows. You download it, you install it, and it runs on your computer. There is no version that opens in a tab and there is not going to be one.

If a browser tool is a hard requirement — a locked-down machine, a Chromebook, no permission to install — then stop here rather than downloading something that will not run. That is a real constraint and it is not one we can talk you out of.

Your game runs on your own hardware, on the copy of Godot bundled inside the app. Your framerate is your machine's framerate. Your memory is your machine's memory.

That is why the worlds can be worlds. Browser game makers keep scenes small because a tab has a hard budget, which is why they steer you toward sparse spaces with a handful of objects in them. Terrain, water, weather and a populated landscape are a normal thing to attempt when the process is native.

Small is the complaint there, not flat, and the two get used as though they were the same word. Flockbay makes flat worlds on purpose — 2D or 3D is a pick when you make the project, two pictures with no default — and a 2D game gets the same native build and the same folder on your disk as a 3D one.

It also means your project lives on your disk, as a real Godot project, rather than in a database somewhere. Nothing about it depends on us staying online.

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This distinction confuses people, so worth being exact. Building needs an internet connection: Flockbay writes your code through a model over the network, and asset generation and world data come the same way. There is no offline mode.

What is local is the running of your game and the editing of your world. You are not streaming an editor from a server and you are not watching a video of your own game.

So the accurate description is a local app with online services behind the AI, rather than a cloud tool or an offline tool.

More on this: Building with Flockbay needs a connection. Playing what you built does not.

You build the world by hand, and which world is a question asked before anything is created: 2D or 3D, shown as two pictures, with no default.

In 3D that means terrain, water, weather, structures and characters, placed and shaped in a builder that works like a level editor. In 2D it means dragging ground into existence — the tiles, the edges and the collision all fall out of which cells you painted, so what you drag stops a walker straight away — with a sky colour and one band of scenery behind it, and sprites placed, turned and sized by hand in front.

Flockbay writes the GDScript for the behaviour you describe. You do not read it unless you want to. You play the game and say whether it is right, and it revises. That is the loop.

Nothing about this requires you to know an engine or a language, which is usually what people mean when they search for an easy online tool. The ease is real. The delivery mechanism is a download.

The whole builder is on it. In 3D that is terrain, water, weather, light, cameras and NPC behaviour; in 2D it is the tile ground you paint, the backdrop behind it, how the person walks and jumps, and the sprites you place. Your own textures and props, play and playtesting, on both. Flockbay is free on your own AI: your Claude or ChatGPT plan, your own agent, or an API key. Flockbay builds from a library of ready-made objects, or with Godot's own shapes.

That means the free plan is a genuine way to find out whether this suits you, and not a demo with the interesting parts greyed out.

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This comes up a lot with people searching for online tools, and it is a fair thing to want. Your project lives on your disk, so it does not follow you between machines by itself.

The normal answer is the same one every desktop developer uses: put the project in version control or a synced folder. It is an ordinary Godot project, so nothing special is required to do that.

Install the app on both machines and sign in on both. The plan is attached to you rather than to a computer.

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