YGG Launches vibecode.game, Teams Up With Minds by Animoca Brands for Debut Game Jam

• Yield Guild Games launched vibecode.game on July 9, an editorial and discovery platform where any creator can publish vibe-coded browser games.
• A four-week game jam with Minds by Animoca Brands opens July 13 with US$2,500 in Minds platform credits and US$2,500 in YGG tokens, and winners named on August 10.
• The jam marks the public release of Minds’ “Game Designer Mind”, an AI agent that turns a one-line prompt into a full game concept, judged by YGG co-founder Gabby Dizon and Animoca Labs VP Mo Ezeldin.

Yield Guild Games launched vibecode.game, an editorial and discovery platform for vibe-coded games, and will co-host a four-week global game jam with Minds by Animoca Brands from July 13 that carries a US$5,000 (AU$7,200) prize pool.

YGG describes the platform as a permissionless launchpad where any creator can publish a game, find an audience and build a community, with curated rankings, reviews, developer profiles and guides deciding what surfaces. The company says community validation determines which games rise to the top.

The announcement cited a 2026 MarketsandMarkets report projecting the AI code assistant market will grow from US$8.14 billion (AU$11.72 billion) in 2025 to US$127.05 billion (AU$182.95 billion) by 2032, alongside a Naavik Digest study finding agentic AI fuelled a 77% surge in mobile game releases while commercial success rates stayed flat.

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Game Jam Runs July 13 to August 10

Creators build and submit games from July 13 to 27, the community votes on entries through August 2, and judging runs August 3 to 9, with winners announced August 10. Gabby Dizon, co-founder of YGG, and Mo Ezeldin, VP of Animoca Labs, form the judging panel, and the pair will host a live game-design masterclass on YGG’s Discord server on July 16.

“vibecode.game is the ultimate discovery portal for vibe-coded games, and game jams are the perfect way to bring content, creators, and the community together,” Dizon stated. The competition opens the VibeBlitz series, a run of game jams hosted on the platform.

The jam doubles as the public release of the Game Designer Mind, a persistent AI agent Animoca Brands built to turn a one-line prompt into a designed and balanced game concept. Creators can use it alone or combined with other AI coding tools. Animoca said many creators working with vibe coding tools still struggle with core design decisions, mechanics and balance, the gap the agent is built to cover.

“Vibe coding has democratized coding, but great games still require great design,” Yat Siu, co-founder and executive chairman of Animoca Brands, said. “By putting the Game Designer Mind in front of YGG’s builder community, we are removing the final creative hurdle.”

Animoca Brands was a seed investor in YGG in 2021, and the two firms have partnered across blockchain gaming since. YGG’s token traded near US$0.022 (AU$0.031) on July 10, according to CoinGecko data. Registration for the jam is open on vibecode.game.

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