Transparency

Why this page? Because I value transparency and mutual trust.

About me

Goals

I want to turn one of my prototype ideas into a polished game. But I can't realistically do this alone so I'm looking for people or friends to join me.

My values

Harmony, mutual respect and trust, humility, empathy, rationality.

Self-promotion

I guess I have to do this...

I have 5+ years of professional experience in R&D in the video game industry, with an emphasis on:

• deep reinforcement learning (in short: maths and game theory);
• physics simulation with high performance.

Even though I have worked in the game industry, I never had the opportunity to ship my very own game ideas.

Those skills don't directly help me achieve my goals, but I definitely became versatile on the way, and I consider myself strong in sciences and computer sciences.

My experiences (both personal and professional) made me proficient in various programming languages and environments.

Finally, people like working with me. :)

Why this site

With this site, I hope:

• to more easily share my gameplay ideas with my friends or people I meet, for them to test them out;
• I can find people that want to help me get those ideas into polished (and publish-able?) games.

Use of AI

Art

Using human-made art is important to me. I don't want AI art:

• in any final product; because I value collaborating with humans, and having coherent art that make the product unique;
• in my prototypes; indeed, the goal is to just test the gameplay; because simple shapes do the job well enough for gameplay, no need for AI-generated graphics.

In order to achieve my goals, I am looking for an artist who is

• interested in any one of my prototypes
• and willing to get paid; I'm putting this here because I am aware that several artists in this area are not paid.

Coding

On the other hand, LLMs for coding have helped me to achieve iterations on my prototype ideas at a much faster pace than before LLMs came. Being able to see my ideas come to life so fast does bring me joy. I have had some ideas for up to 5 years but I never had the time to code all the features I had in mind. As a result, I allow myself to use them for coding now, even though I am not proud of doing it for ethical reasons.

In practice, I use Claude. While I use it, I try to not waste tokens, because ethics matter to me, and I am aware of the negative impact of those technologies on climate change, inequalities, and democracies. Also, I try to keep track of the amount of spent tokens, and report those numbers per-prototype (+ this website). I consider this important for transparency and for giving me a metric to keep an eye on.

• This website cost ~370k tokens.
• Dungeon cost ~1.1M tokens
• Powergrid cost ~380k tokens.

Collected data

This website collects no personal data.

It does log the following:

• count the number of visits on this website;
• debug logs from the played game sessions; those might help me improve the gameplays and fix issues.