A month ago I quit my job and couldn't code. Just a few weeks later, this is what Google says when you search my game Aestra 🤯 Play it free on the browser: tesana.com/game/aestra-the-l…

A month ago I quit my job and spent my last money building my dream game. One problem, I couldn't write a single line of code... Since then 21,000+ people have played it and this week Aestra made its first real money. Players are buying the new classes and taking them straight into the hardest endgame content. Thousands keep coming back every week, hundreds every day, and I haven't spent a cent on marketing. So many of you ask how to get started. I was exactly where you are a month ago. I used @TesanaAI they handle the assets, multiplayer and publishing, even straight to Steam, so I could just build the world I always wanted to play and press publish And this is what's coming next 👀 A demon so powerful the strongest wizards in the kingdom have to sacrifice themselves every day to keep him sealed. Built with Claude Opus 5.5 & @threejs

A month ago I quit my job with no idea how to code, just a dream of making the game I always wanted to play. I spent my last $1,400 creating it. Today over 17,000 of you have played Aestra. Seeing my game full of life, players trading, dueling and teaming up in the main city hub, doing content together. It’s just amazing to see. I still have a big list of probably 50 things I want to add, and they’re coming. Every player and every character lost to permadeath keeps me going. Thank you ❤️ Built with Claude Opus 5.5 & @TesanaAI Link in comments, play for free in your broswer! 👇

I spent my last $1400 building my online Permadeath ARPG with AI in a weekend and after one week it has 16.700 players that on average have spent Opus 5.5 on @TesanaAI Seeing big groups of players taking down bosses and playing the game together is such an amazing feeling to see as a game dev. The game is free to play but players have started purchasing my $1 to unlock the new class Death Metal Bard. So the game is making back some money now. I built Aestra: The Last Wish, a pixel ARPG with permadeath & online multiplayer, in a weekend for around $100. Posted it on Reddit and 800+ players put in over 5,000h, with some already at 30–50h each. Seeing people actually jamming got me addicted to improving it. Another 3–4 days and almost $1,400 spent in total, it now has 9 classes, levels 1–100, 3 raids & a floating turtle city full of mystery. The first set of players gave me so much great feedback, harder end game bosses. Bigger map, once reaching max level they players had thousands of unspent gold just sitting in their bags. So I added a big gold sink from a special vendor in the moving turtle city. There you can buy awesome items for thousands of golds. The most expensive being 10.000 gold. I will keep updating the game listening to my players. It's most popular in the United States and Japan, with a big surge of Japanese players coming the last few days. Link to play it in the comments 👇

I spent my last $1400 building my Permadeath ARPG with AI in a weekend and it already has over 5000 hours of playtime with over 1100 players made with Opus 5.5 on @TesanaAI I built the first version of Aestra: The Last Wish in a weekend for around $100. A real-time pixel action RPG with permadeath, 4 classes & online multiplayer. I then posted it on Reddit and it attracted 800+ players, averaging almost 6h each. Some have already spent 30–50h. Over 5,000h played in total. The feedback has been so good, especially on mobile. Once real players were actually jamming, I got addicted to improving it. Another 3–4 days later, I’ve spent almost $1,400 expanding it to 9 classes, levels 1–100, 3 extremely tight & fun raids and a floating turtle city full of mystery. Almost a full week of vibecoding with Claude Opus 5.5 on Tesana. I even can't stop playing it myself. Pick your class, build your talents, quest, gear up & clear dungeons and raids. Whatever you do, don’t die. Your hero is gone and you start over. It’s free to play, but I’ve added a $1 Death Metal Bard class to see if it can make back some of its cost. Let me know how far you get & when you died the first time :)