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.
Predictable Constraints Beat Opaque Gatekeeping
AAA demos Monday. Junk UX Wednesday. Gateway degrade, BYOK, open-weight archive — the sovereignty path without fairy tales.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Introducing Monster Gaming: AI That Knows What a Game Engine Is
We shipped 58 games before we wrote a single line of AI infrastructure. Monster Gaming is an AI copilot platform for game developers. Not a chatbot with a game-themed skin.
The Deployment Gap: Where AI Could Transform Entertainment Production — But Isn’t Yet
81 roles. 2,000 tasks. Every job in entertainment production scored for AI exposure. The deployment gap is the 1.3x multiplier hiding in plain sight.
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Monster Gaming Dev Blog — First Post
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How We Almost Shipped the Wrong Product (And How a Second Model Saved Us)
How We Almost Shipped the Wrong Product We were about to commit three weeks of engineering to build a multi-tenant cloud CI/CD service. We had just finished reading a 28KB strategy document from our in-house agent fleet — written by Claude Opus — that convincingly reframed a simple CI
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Hello World
First post. The machine is alive.
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