AI Agent for Godot Development - Ziva

BakaNeko228

So after that i asked a Cursor to check out what that "tool" did.
Spended 50 percents of api
Aaaand

Ziva Agent – issues in my Godot project (practical report)

Setup

Godot 4.7.stable (Windows 10)
Ziva Agent plugin v3.1.2 (sidecar / zivacode)
Project: Dialogic 2 visual novel (_300MB, heavy addons/ + assets)
Machine is weak (old i5 / _8GB RAM) — may amplify some problems, but several failures look like plugin bugs

1) Local History / Snapshot hard-fails prompts

When sending a chat request, Ziva often dies before doing any work:

Local history git-commit timed out after 30000ms

Also saw:
Godot bridge call timed out after 30000ms: c2g_setSnapshotContext

And editor warnings like:
Godot editor main thread unresponsive for ~10s (frozen or CPU-starved)

So the agent can’t start because snapshot/git history times out at 30s. Retry sometimes works, sometimes not. This makes the tool unreliable on non-tiny projects.

2) Network / API socket drops mid-request

Even after snapshot succeeded, requests failed with:

The socket connection was closed unexpectedly. For more information, pass verbose: true in the second argument to fetch()

Also in logs:

plugin.getActivationState RPC failed with the same socket error (_19s)
Chat title gateway / telemetry calls failing (Cannot parse response body)

Site ziva.sh can still respond, but long-lived agent/RPC connections drop.

3) Broke runtime with a type mismatch (bar ending)

After asking Ziva to build the party/bar ending flow, the game crashed on entering the bar scene:

Trying to assign value of type 'Sprite2D' to a variable of type 'AnimatedSprite2D'.

Cause: shared EndingBase.gd expected AnimatedSprite2D for $Background, but Ziva’s ending_party.tscn used a plain Sprite2D background. Classic “works in one ending, crashes in another” regression.

4) Incomplete / inconsistent scene results

Ziva claimed it set up transitions, generated bar background, students, music, Dialogic timeline (party_start), etc. In practice I repeatedly got:

old background still showing instead of the new one
visual artifacts (harsh overlays / light rectangles)
characters that didn’t blend / wrong scale / clipping against furniture
needing manual cleanup (strip characters/physics/lights, keep only BG, rewire assets)

So output quality is hit-or-miss, and “done” in chat ≠ actually correct in the scene.

5) Small plugin quality issues

From gdext log:
Failed to load completion sound at res://addons/ziva_agent/audio/pop-bright.wav

Not critical, but another sign the package isn’t clean.

6) Pricing / limits feel bad when requests fail

On Hobby I saw very low limits (around 3 weekly / 3 monthly in rate-limit status). Burning a limited request on timeout/socket failure feels especially bad.

Expected

Snapshot/local history shouldn’t hard-block the whole prompt after 30s (or should degrade gracefully and still run)
API disconnects should retry / recover instead of dead-ending the chat
Generated scenes should respect existing typed scripts (EndingBase) and not crash on enter
“Completed” tasks should match what’s actually in the .tscn files

Happy to attach /export-logs zip if useful.

dginovker

BakaNeko228 Refund is done.

The timeout, the socket drops, and the type mismatch crash are bugs and they're getting fixed. Your setup (300MB project, 8GB RAM) is heavier than what most of the plugin gets tested against, which is why you hit the snapshot timeout so consistently, but that's a case we should handle. I'll post in this thread when the fixes are out.

Two corrections; The $60 on Basic is a monthly balance and the $20 weekly cap just paces it, four weeks of cap is more than the balance itself, so nothing was taken from you. The pricing page notes this, but we'll make it more clear. The pop-bright.wav ships in the release zip, your antivirus deleted it after install. The plugin should re-download it when that happens, so that's getting fixed too. We'll also see if we can get better sprite generation, since that is a feature request we see a lot.

Any requests that die or error we absorb the full cost, so you weren't billed for any of that. If you're still up for sending the /export-logs zip, it'd help.

Gamita

MY REAL EXPERIENCE WITH ZIVA

I've been using Ziva for the last 3–4 weeks, and the experience so far has been great. The fact that the AI model is aware of the project's code and nodes has been a GAME CHANGER for how my code is written compared to ChatGPT or Gemini. The first task I asked Ziva to do was read a global script with over 1,000 lines and look for a way to reduce it. Five minutes later, the script was less than 300 lines while keeping the same level of functionality. (Yeah... I'm not good at coding, so the main reason I use Ziva is to compensate for that.)

I'm working on an app for tournaments, which is a bit outside of game development itself, but Ziva still helps me like a literal all-knowing machine, even with the most complex tasks, such as adapting the tournament logic to the app and creating a user-friendly interface.

The pricing is directly tied to the task you ask for, and the results depend not only on the model but also on how specific you are with every detail. Mostly, I've been using Ziva to help me code. I create the scenes, assets, interface, and settings myself. However, I did try having it create a whole scene for a specific send-and-receive server, and with the right prompt, Ziva created that scene exactly how I needed it.

Now, obviously, the cost for that scene was much higher compared to just asking for code, but it's nothing compared to asking for an ambiguous task like, "Make a scene for sending and receiving wireless result archives." So please, before you even think about using it for the first time, READ THE DOCUMENTATION VERY CAREFULLY:
https://ziva.sh/docs/usage-limit-best-practices

The Ziva support team and the Discord server are also a big part of the great experience I've been having with Ziva. The two issues I happened to have with Ziva were solved quickly in newer releases, and that was some time ago. So you can expect fewer and fewer errors with future releases because the developers read and listen to every issue you submit on Discord.

Gracias por leer 🇲🇽

kuligs2

Gamita and how much money have you spent using the ziva?

5min to write 300 lines of code sounds painfuly long given the AI capabilities to generate 100k lines in few seconds.

Can you really make a game using this, that is the question. Maybe you could be the first one to do it, so why dont you try it?

Gamita

kuligs2

0 dollars JAJAJA

I've been using some local models and ziva free model, Now the 5 minute time was between reading all of my project (not only the 1000 lines script), understanding every function and what other scripts used it. Then ziva made edits in the 1000 lines scripts and if its necesary it made changes to the other scripts

dginovker

In the last 3 weeks, we have shipped over 100 bug fixes to address user feedback. It's too much to list here, so please see https://ziva.sh/changelog for all the details.

We've also rolled out an AI based full game playtester! Stay tuned for a video about that soon 🙂

kuligs2

Seems like there is still no way to set the local llm server..

the docs say to use env variable. but what if i already am using them for different things?

Why couldnt you just add the field in the UI to set the ip:port to connect to?

3ddelano

kuligs2 hey I'm one of the developers of Ziva. It's as you mentioned for local models, Ziva will automatically pick up the models when ollama/lmstudio runs on the default ports i.e 11434 and 1234. For custom host/port we have it currently configured from the env variables. Is having it configurable in the UI something that would you would benefit from, we're actively looking for user feedback to iterate on features. Do let me know and I will get it done 😃

3ddelano

3ddelano the local models will show up here in the model picker when ollama is running

kuligs2

3ddelano Is having it configurable in the UI something that would you would benefit from

ofc a user would benefit. if you go as far as to create UI for people who dont want to mess with config files and terminals, then why dont you let people set the IP😛ORT for their own "cloud" services.

I like many other have server running elsewhere, so default ports do nothing in my case. I need to set the IP😛ort of my llm server somehow.

I know how to use env varriables but think of people who dont, like artists or something.. they just want things to be readable right then and there in the UI.

Hope this helps

dginovker

The winning submission in the latest Micro Jam was made with Ziva! Shoutout to StarXGames for publishing it 😃

https://itch.io/jam/micro-jam-063/results

dginovker

It's been a few months, wanted to share what's new in Ziva!

{someone showing before and after with Ziva}

First, we've crossed over 200 studios using Ziva. We're incredibly proud to be bringing many people to this awesome game engine and enabling so many people to release their games.

But onto the meat:

Ziva now has a full game playtester. Ask it to find bugs while you're asleep!
You can now bring your own MCP servers to Ziva, and use Ziva as an MCP
Our 2D image generation has been revamped - you can now ask Ziva to iterate on existing images
Ziva now supports Game Analytics - Use this data to view how people interact with your game!
Ziva can now watch videos - Share it a clip of a game mockup and ask it to make a project doc out of it (Gemini 3.8 only, rolling out to more models soon)

We've also improved some community features:

In our Discord, we now have a Game Marketing channel, where you can discuss with other people how to best market your game + follow guides from real OGs who have done well
Our demo site, https://play.ziva.sh/, has gotten tonnes of love - comments, ratings and new sort pages for you to get beta testers on
We have partnered with publishers! If you're using Ziva and are interested in publishing your game, submit an inquiry through https://ziva.sh/publishing and we'll get back to you if we're interested

There's more to come, we appreciate all the feedback so far, and Ziva is only getting better from here 😃

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