That Coldplay 'Kiss Cam' Couple Just Became a Vibe-Coded Videogame - and Then an NFT (forbes.com)
(Saturday July 19, 2025 @10:23PM (EditorDavid)
from the ready-player-one dept.)
- Reference: 0178421052
- News link: https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/07/20/0219213/that-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-just-became-a-vibe-coded-videogame---and-then-an-nft
- Source link: https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/07/19/viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-now-stars-in-a-video-game/
"I vibe coded a little game called Coldplay Canoodlers," reads the [1]X.com post by gaming enthusiast/songwriter Jonathan Mann. "You're the camera operator and you have to find the CEO and HR lady canoodling. 10 points every time you find them."
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, [2]which is playable here .
[3]Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a [4]statement posted on LinkedIn . ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, [5]writes Forbes :
> Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online [6]every day for over 17 years . Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and [7]his concerns about SEC regulations . (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled [8]"I'm Suing the SEC" .) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... [9]write a new song about it .
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted [10]a new update about his game .
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann [11]explained later . "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
[1] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946248955576066339
[2] https://songadaymann.github.io/coldplay-canoodle/?_vercel_share=MEtBJBucvn80EHKAQ1cEp6RboPY1zRif
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/07/19/viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-now-stars-in-a-video-game/
[4] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7352406400280514560/
[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/07/19/viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-now-stars-in-a-video-game/
[6] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/09/10/0439239/geek-writes-a-song-a-day-for-13-years-celebrates-song-5000-with-big-nft-auction
[7] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/02/2220257/artist-and-musician-sue-sec-over-its-nft-regulatory-jurisdiction
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2XsoUVQCo
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FodP_lrZPO8
[10] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946744122313736410
[11] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946743352277287007
Mann's post includes a 30-second clip from the game, [2]which is playable here .
[3]Forbes notes that the TikTok video of the couple's reaction has drawn more than 100 million views — and that the married-to-someone-else CEO has now tendered his resignation from his dataops company Astronomer (which was accepted). The company is now searching for a new chief executive, according to a [4]statement posted on LinkedIn . ("Comments have been turned off on this post...")
"Our leaders are expected to set the standard in both conduct and accountability, and recently, that standard was not met."
But songwriter Mann saw a chance to have some fun, [5]writes Forbes :
> Mann used ChatGPT to make the "Coldplay Canoodlers" game, inputting such prompts as: "Can you generate an 8-bit pixel image of a stadium concert viewed from the stage" and "there should be a large jumbotron somewhere up in the stadium seats." He also entered rough drawings of the visual style he envisioned... The response to the game, Mann said in an interview, has been unexpected. "I have gone viral many times with my songs," he said. It's "very strange to have it happen with a game I made in four hours."
Songwriter Mann has been sharing an original song online [6]every day for over 17 years . Last summer Slashdot also covered Mann's attempts to sell NFTs of his songs, and [7]his concerns about SEC regulations . (This led him to file a real-world legal challenge — and to write a song titled [8]"I'm Suing the SEC" .) So with all the attention this weekend to his instant game, there was nothing to do but... [9]write a new song about it .
And minutes ago on X.com, Mann also posted [10]a new update about his game .
"I turned it into an NFT."
"Took some time," Mann [11]explained later . "But I vibe coded my own ERC-721 contract and minted the game as a playable NFT. (Plays great on OpenSea)."
[1] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946248955576066339
[2] https://songadaymann.github.io/coldplay-canoodle/?_vercel_share=MEtBJBucvn80EHKAQ1cEp6RboPY1zRif
[3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/07/19/viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-now-stars-in-a-video-game/
[4] https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7352406400280514560/
[5] https://www.forbes.com/sites/lesliekatz/2025/07/19/viral-coldplay-kiss-cam-couple-now-stars-in-a-video-game/
[6] https://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/22/09/10/0439239/geek-writes-a-song-a-day-for-13-years-celebrates-song-5000-with-big-nft-auction
[7] https://yro.slashdot.org/story/24/08/02/2220257/artist-and-musician-sue-sec-over-its-nft-regulatory-jurisdiction
[8] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH2XsoUVQCo
[9] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FodP_lrZPO8
[10] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946744122313736410
[11] https://x.com/songadaymann/status/1946743352277287007
I'm gonna make a Error: buzzword not found (Score:1)
by RightwingNutjob ( 1302813 )
Then I'm going to post it on Error: timely reference sadly dated.
And then I'm going to Disney World!
Poor couple. (Score:1)
by gurps_npc ( 621217 )
Yeah, they were cheating. That is not a crime. At least no in the US.
They got caught, and now a bunch of scum buckets are trying to make money/internet points out of their misery. Shmucks ignoring their rights, invading both their privacy and also not paying them anything for using their name/likeness.
I hate the idiots making games, jokes, and NFTs about this incident far more than the poor couple that were caught choking.
Should have just waved at the camera (Score:2)
by shm ( 235766 )
They got outed because of their reaction.
The Coldplay guy would not have noticed or commented on them otherwise.
If they had had the presence of mind to just act normal instead of hiding, 2 seconds on the big screen and they would have been done.
Jesus fuck everything wrong with the world here (Score:5, Insightful)
First of all no you didn't code anything you had a AI crap out a cookie cutter game.
And fucking nfts? Are we going to bring back that tax dodge? Because that's what those were going to be until the IRS said no, you couldn't use the art loophole anymore and you certainly couldn't use it on nfts.
I cannot go a single day without this God forsaken world reminding me that the entirety of human civilization is collapsing. At least not without turning off the internet and any other media device.
More things wrong with the world. (Score:2, Informative)
Well without his job and with this betrayal public, his wife will probably divorce him. And, given current divorce laws, she will wind up with the house and most of his money and savings, and an alimony that will ensure he spends the rest of his life living as an indentured servant to her.
But, with his reputation tarnished now, he won't be able to find a job that pays enough to pay the alimony.
So, he will grow old and die in prison.
But his mistress will leave him long before that, mainly due to the aforeme
Re: (Score:1)
That's a hell of a lot of words for life isn't fair. Also, get out more. You obviously hate women.
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Grifters every last one of them man. That game is some serious dog shit too. I feel bad if they had to vibe code it is as it seems like something that could easily be cobbled together from any number of free sample games in a few hours at most.
I had forgotten that people were still trying to use NFTs to scam people out of money by making you pay for jpgs. That is so 2010s.