I've tried creating a Shining fangame using Rosebud AI. My prompt was the following:

"Turn-based, tactical role-playing game akin to Shining Force 2, fantasy scenario with elves, dwarfs, orcs, humans, centaurs, wizards, fairies, sorcerers, sages, many difficult battles requiring good strategical thinking, many different spells to cast both for attacking and healing purposes, a rich variety of items and weapons to equip, alternative paths to promote the character class using hidden items, an interesting story involving dragons and a princess"

You can see the result here: https://rosebud.ai/p/1e58e438-142b-4ef2-aef3-20534f9904cc

What do you think about it? It's definitely not so good as the original game but considering that it would have taken months to develop a game of this kind without AI...?

If you ask me, the world has been thoroughly misguided, and people should have mass-adopted Ye Olde Blah instead of Twitter back in the days.

But they didn't and now look where the world ended up!

There is still time to fix it, but can Ye Olde Black scale up enough?

I guess we may find out, but excuse me while I fix my compromised password first 

Well...... the women's team won something in the end, didn't they?

I'm very much in the UK these days btw.

Perhaps we can now vibe code the whole game using Claude Code or something?

Meanwhile, the Guardian is raving about the battle engine of Final Fantasy Tactics, giving it a 5 star review...
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jan/08/final-fantasy-tactics-the-ivalice-chronicles-review-remastered-1997-classic-is-even-more-politically-resonant-now

If only someone had made a better version...

(although Shining Force probably would need a much more depressing plot to get 5 star reviews from the Guardian)

Hi guys.

Can't believe this site is still going strong, with fangame updates from only a few months ago (unlike some other related sites)! And somehow my account works again, whilst I was struggling to log in in the past.

Well done all of you on that one!

All this made me wondering.... do you think it has become possible to vibe code a Shining Game these days or is it a hopeless idea?

Resurrection!

I remembered about this place when Deezer suggested the song "Shining Forever". I was disappointed to learn it's something to do with wrestling.

Was the internet always that slow?

Found https://oldweb.today today - it's a neat project where you can browse the web like it used to be (even using IE6, my most hated of browsers).

Naturally I went back in time to browse TSS: https://oldweb.today/?browser=ie6#20011201000000/http://acmefiles.com/tss/

Good times.

Great! Thank you very much! I also created a couple of images using Midjourney. I don't think an average human graphic artist could do any better.