Elon Musk, Tesla CEO and X owner, praised the project and shared it with his 219 million fans despite recent says that he plans to launch his own Artificial game workshop. A amateur video game developer created a flight simulator game totally using artificial intelligence.
On Saturday, investor Pieter Levels created a bare-bones trip model called Pieter.com Flight Model, in a matter of hours, by giving AI script editor Cursor a little fast and some follow-up questions. Despite the fact that the game is relatively new compared to what is available already, he was surprised by the experience.
” I’ve never ever made a game before, and just made my own flight simulator 100 % with Cursor in I’d say 3 hours, by just telling it what I wanted”, Levels posted on X. “VERY FUN!! “!
Levels then plunged down a rabbit hole of gradually improving the game.
Next he added balloons you can shoot, destructible buildings, and made the simulator compatible with mobile—again, all using Cursor. Then he added a Grand Theft Auto-style wasted screen with Cursor, cleaned up duplicate functions with ChatGPT, and added an afterburner with ChatGPT.
Levels made the decision to enable multiplayer in this instance, but he claimed he had no idea how to make bullets register to prevent dogfights between players. With some help from other X users, Levels created a WebSocket server from scratch using Elon Musk’s own AI model, Grok-3. At its peak, the server was handling nearly 2, 000 players at once.
Musk caught wind of a newbie developer making a game from scratch using AI tools, and said in a quote-tweet,” Wow, this is cool. AI gaming will be massive”.
Due to the SpaceX founder’s obsession with bringing humanity to Mars, Levels later increased the game.
After showcasing a Grok-created version of Tetris, Musk revealed plans for an xAI gaming studio in February. The richest man in the world explained this move is in the quest of making “video games great again” —a nod to President Trump’s election slogan, and another step in Musk’s ongoing crusade against “woke” politics.
Pieter.com Flight Simulator lacks depth or distinctive mechanics, despite the simulation demonstrating the potential for AI to create playable experiences. That’s all reasonable given the state of the tools and the developer’s own lack of game design experience—though the game has prompted snarky responses.
Senior full-stack developer Max Yankov responded on X,” I’ve never felt more confident in my job prospects as a senior engineer. ” This is fine for a quick prototype. It will take roughly x100 to x100 to x100 to x the effort and number of lines of code to make it actually feel and work for a lot of players.
Despite acknowledging that AI can be useful for developers, Yankov said he was skeptical of how far a newbie can go if they only learn how to use it.
Levels shucked this criticism, called him a “gatekeeper guy who feels threatened for his future”, and then went on to add advertising and a pay-to-win plane model for$ 29.99 to the game.  ,
” What if we sell blimps, what price should we charge though”? Levels added.
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