Building the Future of EdTech with GenAI and Cloud Run ☁️🎮

Sharing my latest project, The Serverless Survivor—a retro-style survival game that challenges your Google Cloud knowledge. While it looks like an 8-bit arcade game, the backend is a modern study in serverless efficiency.

The Tech Stack: 🚀 Compute: Next.js on Cloud Run (via Firebase App Hosting) for auto-scaling and 0 idle costs. 🧠 Brain: Vertex AI (Gemini) generates unique survival scenarios, ensuring the content is never stale. 🔥 Data: Cloud Firestore for real-time leaderboards and content delivery.

This project demonstrates how to decouple content generation from application logic. The game acts as a "consumer," while Gemini acts as the "creator," autonomously populating the database with new levels.

Check out the code or try to survive the jungle below! ▶️ Play here: https://lnkd.in/eNu4kbbj 💻 GitHub: https://lnkd.in/e2G7JYY2

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