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Summer Engine MCP guide

How to make games in Cursor with Summer Engine

Connect Cursor to the Summer Engine desktop app so Cursor can create scenes, write gameplay, run the game, and fix errors through MCP. Summer Engine is the desktop game engine; Cursor is the agent that drives it through MCP.

Cursor writes the code with your subscription. Summer Engine shows the game.
01

Summer is free for MCP use

Download the desktop engine and connect it to your agent. You are not paying Summer for the AI calls your existing subscription already covers.

02

Open Cursor

Use the AI editor you already have. The setup command writes the MCP config and installs the Summer game-dev skills.

03

Launch a real game

The agent writes code. Summer Engine shows the game, runs Play mode, and exports projects for Steam, desktop, mobile, and console pipelines.

Why this matters

Cursor writes with your subscription. Summer Engine shows the game.

A chat agent alone can write files. With MCP, Cursor gets tools for the running game engine, so it can inspect the project, run commands, and make changes that become playable inside Summer.

Start with Cursor. Build inside Summer.

Install the desktop app for free, run the setup command, and make your first scene playable.