Behind-the-scenes notes on building games, forging tools, and running a small studio that punches above its weight.
A flow spawns, agents fan out through five oracle gates, the game-builder fixes 19 red tests while vision judges check the live game — and it all runs as one autonomous flow.
Read → 15 June 2026Our crowd renderer bakes every animation frame into a bone-matrix palette once, then the GPU drives every instance itself — 1,000 animals at 60 FPS, each with its own clip and phase. This is how AAA does crowds. Now it runs in our Godot fork.
Read → 14 June 2026Godot can't batch-render 1,000 animated characters. We built a GPU skinned-instance herd renderer into the engine itself — already driving crocodile herds in Ariki. Pre-built editor binaries for macOS and Windows.
Read → 11 June 2026We killed the static YAML DAG and rewrote our agent orchestration in 200 lines of JavaScript. Now a flow IS a session — you chat it, steer it, and it pauses for you at a human gate.
Read → 10 June 2026Speaking a bug while looking at the screen beats typing it from memory ten minutes later. Here's how voice-to-agent pipelines work, why game dev is the ideal use case, and what changes when you stop typing bug reports.
Read → 7 June 2026I wanted a radio that never plays catalog music — only fresh AI compositions shaped by my taste. Here's the stack, the player, and how I DJ every generated track with metadata.
Read → 3 June 2026We gave the Tinqs blog a visual refresh — gradient titles, dark code panels, date pills, amber accent bars. Two template files, one build step, zero external dependencies.
Read → 25 May 2026A raw AI model is stateless. An agent harness wraps around it and provides identity, memory, tools, context, and guardrails. Here's why game development needs its own.
Read → 25 May 2026We generate all visual assets for our game through fal.ai — concept art, icons, logos, trailer frames. Here's the 4-layer prompt pattern that actually works, and how we pick between 12 models spanning two orders of magnitude in cost.
Read → 25 May 2026Three forks, less than 0.5% code changed. Why modifying existing platforms beats building new ones — and how we turned Gitea into a game dev platform with 3D preview, AI agents, and LFS-first workflows.
Read → 25 May 2026Too many things to remember before hitting commit. Don't leak API keys. Don't reference classified codenames. Don't link to deleted repos. We built a two-layer pre-commit hook — regex + LLM — that catches all of it for $0.001.
Read → 22 May 2026Godot has no built-in asset streaming. We built four layers to run a 12km archipelago with 9 islands, 155 vegetation types, and 2,000 crowd instances — on an RTX 3060.
Read → 18 May 2026Every machine in our studio runs the same Go binary. It knows who you are, what machine you're on, and what services are reachable. It takes screenshots, sends them to cloud vision, and runs health checks — in 100ms.
Read → 6 March 2026We gave AI agents persistent identities, skill playbooks, and access to our entire knowledge base. Here's how four people ship like forty.
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