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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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The Shop Window Is Stocked
The showcase now leads with the tools themselves: Code Generation, Debug & Profile, Asset Pipeline, and the API & Usage Dashboard — with per-tool checkout staging sandbox-first. Open Public Beta.
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The Reflection in the Eye
People ask about the eye in our logo. Look closer — the reflection is the voice over your shoulder. On LOKI, OTTO, and why our founder agents are built like loyal companions, not cameras.
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We're live. Ship AAA games — even solo.
Monster Gaming AI is live and accepting customers: 146 AI agents for Unreal, Unity, Godot, and bespoke engines, one OpenAI-compatible API, a free tier with no card required — built by a team with shipped-title credits on BioShock and Borderlands.
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Luxedeum is live: the LLM-agnostic control plane for enterprise, sovereign, SaaS and entertainment
Luxedeum is live and accepting customers: one OpenAI-compatible gateway across ten providers, hard spend caps on every key, up to 90% savings on routine workloads — and the same control plane ships as a self-hosted, air-gap-capable appliance.
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The Parachute, the Ice Bucket, and the Bill
Going live felt like a parachute jump. Then success ice-bucketed us with a token bill — and somehow we are still break-even and alive.
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Sorry We Went Quiet — Then We Kept Building Anyway
Founder apology for radio silence, walking back into the arena, Life Spark as always-start-here, and thanks to Amazon, Microsoft, and Google for cloud credits that kept multi-cloud building alive when investor follow-through did not land.
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Predictable Constraints Beat Opaque Gatekeeping
AAA demos Monday. Junk UX Wednesday. Gateway degrade, BYOK, open-weight archive — the sovereignty path without fairy tales.
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Comic Sans: How We Solved the Oldest Problem in Animation with the Newest Tools
Model sheets have existed since Disney in the 1930s. AI broke them. So our Art Director reinvented them — in a comic strip about reinventing them. Inception, but useful. If you've shipped a game — actually shipped, as in "players are filing bug reports about your LOD popping at
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I Asked for Developer Docs. Thomson Reuters Told Me to Read Their TOS. So I Did.
I was going to cancel quietly. Then I read the Terms of Service. Here's the full thread.
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Goldman Helped Build the Toll Booth. Thomson Reuters Runs It. I'm Going Around.
The most sophisticated extraction operations aren't illegal. They're just designed to be inevitable. So I built around them.
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You Can Use Our Data to Make Up New Laws. You Just Can't Reference the Old Ones.
Thomson Reuters charged me $2,000 a month and then told me historical legal precedent requires a separate license. I'm publishing my code.
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You Made It. You Own It. (Probably.)
You built the game. You tuned the AI. So who owns what you made? Short answer: you do. Probably.