The Idea

It started with a simple question: “Why don’t we just ask AI to build this?”

We are a videographer and a lawyer — two people with absolutely no software development background. But we had an idea: a two-player snake game where both players compete on the same screen. Something simple, fun, and instantly playable with a friend sitting next to you.

The classic snake game that everyone played on their Nokia phones in the late 90s had never really gotten a proper same-screen two-player version. We wanted to build exactly that. The only problem? Neither of us knew how to code.

Entering the World of AI-Assisted Development

We had heard about people building things with AI — but we had never tried it ourselves. So we opened ChatGPT and typed our first prompt: “I want to build a two-player snake game that runs in a browser. Both players on the same screen. One uses WASD, the other uses arrow keys.”

What came back was actual HTML and JavaScript code. We copy-pasted it into a file, opened it in a browser — and a basic version of the game appeared on screen. It was rough, buggy, and incomplete. But it worked. That moment changed everything.

The Development Loop

What followed was a cycle we repeated dozens of times:

• Play the game and find what’s broken
• Describe the problem to the AI in plain language
• Get updated code back
• Test again
• Repeat

We never wrote a single line of code ourselves. But we became very good at something else: describing problems clearly. The more specific and detailed our prompts were, the better the results we got back.

Things like collision detection, score tracking, game-over screens, respawn logic, wall boundaries — all of these were built through conversation, not through coding.

Building the Website

Once the game itself was in good shape, we turned to the website. We used WordPress as our platform — again with AI guidance — and designed the dark cyberpunk aesthetic you see today entirely through prompts and iteration.

The glowing borders, the neon colors, the keyboard key visuals, the fullscreen mode — all of it emerged from describing what we wanted and refining the results until it looked right.

We also used AI to handle the domain purchase, hosting setup, and technical configuration. Things that would have taken a developer days took us hours — not because we were skilled, but because we had learned to ask the right questions.

What We Learned

Building 2 Player Snake without any coding background taught us something important: the barrier to building things has fundamentally changed.

You no longer need to know how to write code. You need to know what you want to build, how to describe it clearly, and how to evaluate whether the result is what you asked for. Those are human skills — not technical ones.

If you’ve ever had an idea but thought “I could never build that” — we’re living proof that you might be wrong. Give it a try. The worst that can happen is an interesting afternoon.

👉 Play the game: 2playersnake.com