Creating Your First Flappy Bird GUI Game with Amazon Q CLI AI Bot
In this blog post, I will guide you through the process of creating a simple Flappy Bird game using Python and the Amazon Q CLI AI bot.
Published Jun 6, 2025
To get started, you need to install the Amazon Q Developer CLI on your Windows machine. Follow these steps:
install Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL):
Open your command prompt and run:
wsl -d Ubuntu- If you haven't installed WSL yet, follow the instructions provided by Microsoft to set it up.
- Install Required Packages:
Download and Install Amazon Q CLI
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://desktop-release.codewhisperer.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/latest/q-x86_64-linux-musl.zip -o q.zip- Unzip the downloaded file:
unzip q.zip- Change to the directory and make the installer executable:
cd q chmod +x install.sh - Run the installer:
./install.shLogin to Amazon Q
- After installation, log in using your Builder ID:
q login
Creating the Flappy Bird Game
Now that you have the Amazon Q CLI set up, you can start creating your Flappy Bird game. Here’s a simple outline of how to do this:
use command
q chat to start the CLI chatbot
now ask him to create a simple python based flappy bird game
it will create a game will all the details along it
now navigate to the directory where the flappy_bird.py file was exported by the Amazon Q
and run the file
python3 flappy_bird.py