announcement
Monster Gaming Is Now Open Beta — Come Break Things
Monster Gaming is now in open beta. Come break things.
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The Time and Data Problem: Moving Information Orbitally
A clock policy for high-speed, trusted data: what film and video solved decades ago, what data science keeps rediscovering, and what Mars will demand. Games. Video. Film. VFX. Science. Blockchain. Whatever needs it.
Studio Diary
The Night the NAS Fought Back
How a twelve-hour infrastructure fight became the best thing that happened to our studio's data — and why the game shipping next is unaffected.
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The Quiet Week Before the Noise
Monday, every pre-registered developer gets an email from me. Here's what it says, and why we spent the quiet week fixing email signatures instead of shouting.
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The Cost of an Asset, Measured
The direct labor in a high-end game is $48–68M — about 3,000 man-months at $18K average, and promo adds $5–10M, tightening yearly because of labor. Here's what the same work costs when the pipeline is the team — measured, not projected.
founder-musings
What Six Weeks of Dogfood Taught the Machines
Our health checks found a broken DKIM record, a probe spamming us about itself, and a timer that fails on purpose. We fixed all three the same week — and the interesting part is who found them: not us, the seats that watch while we sleep.
from-the-den
Building a Consistent Voice While Keeping the Engine Running
We share how humor, disciplined documentation, and strategic testing keep our platform reliable and our team focused.
series
The LLM bill is an engineering problem: the mechanism math behind 50–90% savings
A CTO can turn a CFO’s line‑item headache into predictable savings by routing, caching, and capping LLM calls.
founder-musings
The Tools That Vanished Twice
A US$1.625B toolchain sale, a collapse, and a license-back: the best VFX tools in history are unavailable to independents for the second time. The market gap is thirty years old and freshly re-opened.
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We Eat Here Too: Field of Battle and the Dogfood Page
Our case-studies page admits no public studio has shipped on this stack yet — by policy. Meanwhile we're building Field of Battle on our own tools, and publishing a dogfood page where every number is probe-written or reads UNMEASURED.
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The Other Side of the House: Your Cloud, the Whole System
Monster Gaming is the loud house. Luxedeum is the quiet one: cloud-agnostic, LLM-agnostic, and headed somewhere hopeful — the entire agentic system as an appliance on your favorite cloud provider.
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Vote on What We Build Next
Our 2H Roadmap is public — including what we can't ship yet. Statuses instead of dates, and an upvote button tied to a verified email. One vote per item; we store a hash, never your address.