Refining & regenerating
Generation gets you a first draft, not a finished game. Two tools in the Studio help you close the distance: refining with AI feedback to revise the table toward how your rules actually read, and an update path that keeps a game current as taybl’s schema evolves. Neither ever blocks you.
Refining with AI feedback
On the Preview tab, the Refine with Feedback box lets you describe what is wrong in plain language — for example “the knight should move in an L-shape” or “add a draw phase at the start of each turn” — and the pipeline revises the game definition for you. The loop is the same every time:
- Describe the change in the feedback box and send it.
- The AI revises the definition.
- Play it back with Try It (or just look at the preview).
- Repeat until the table plays the way your rules read.
Treat each revision as a draft — you remain the judge of whether the table now matches your rules. For anything you would rather change by hand, edit it directly in the Layout tab or in Settings instead.
Stuck on how to model something? Use the Ask the assistant button in the Studio for a docs answer without leaving your edit.
The “Update game” banner
taybl’s schema gains new fields over time. When a game was generated against an older schema, a banner at the top of the Studio — “A newer game definition is available” — offers to Update game. This is a soft regeneration: it fills in the new fields without redoing your hand-edits, and only calls the AI if a structural change genuinely forces it.
| Update path | What happened |
|---|---|
| Deterministic | New fields filled in with defaults; no AI call |
| AI repair | A new required field needed structural changes, so an AI repair pass ran |
The banner tells you which path it took once the update finishes. Updating is safe at any time and keeps an older game on the latest rendering and editing features.
How to edit in the Studio
Open your game → Preview tab. If the Update game banner is showing, click it first so you are refining the latest definition. Then use the Refine with Feedback box for AI-assisted changes, or jump into the Layout / Settings tabs for edits you want to make by hand.
Related
- Studio tour — where the Preview tab and the update banner live
- Uploading assets — how the first draft is generated
- Rules reference — the text players read
- Publishing