How I built LennyRPG

When I released my full podcast transcript archive, Ben Shih, a non-technical designer at Miro, built LennyRPG: a Pokémon-style RPG where you battle podcast guests with product trivia. In this episode, Ben walks through the exact six-step workflow he used to go from sketch to shipped game, including the tools, prompts, and decisions at every stage, along with the broader lessons he learnt along the way.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• How to have AI interview you instead of writing the PRD yourself
• When to pivot your framework, rather than force the wrong tool
• How to systematically process 300+ transcripts into game data
• Three core lessons Ben learned from building LennyRPG

References

• Ben Shih
• Brian Balfour
• Claude Code Awesome Skills marketplace
• LennysData.com
• LennyRPG
• Lenny’s Product Pass
• OpenGameArt.org
• Phaser 3
• RPG-JS
• Supabase
• Wispr Flow

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