Chris Pardy

It's (a)live... cavu.games/g/fright-fest Halloween Night, Heksenkill NY School is out and it's time for you, and two of your follows @rpg.actors to go trick-or-treating. Just watch out because something Frightful may happen this Halloween. The first 3 levels are live, more coming before halloween

Vivarium has been updated to 0.0.4 to track these changes. If you're testing a space capable app pointing it at Vivarium gives you a way to ensure you're staying on top of the planned features. tangled.org/chris.pardy....

I've got something exciting for Friday but until then let me plug Vivarium tangled.org/chris.pardy.... Vivarium is an "Atmosphere In a Box" (not that one) that I've been using for development on a number of project since I first built it back in August. It lets me run CI against the atomsphere.

The goal is to build a single executable (no docker needed) that leverages a plugin architecture so when we say "The Atmosphere" we don't just mean PLC, PDS, Relay, Jetstream but also things like @microcosm.blue, @atmosphere.money, @typeahead.waow.tech, @comail.at, etc.

Going to spend some more time with this tomorrow afternoon. The Halloween game I'm working on is mostly an excuse to shave a bunch of yaks. In this case my vision for cavu.games is that it has a "forge" that makes the difficulty of building a game near zero. What does that look like? 🧵

Put all together you'll visit cavu games forge and be able to, in your browser, create all the assets, and logic for a game, then play test that game with friends that are all over the world. Once you're happy you'll publish the game to your PDS and it will be playable for anyone.

Going to spend some more time with this tomorrow afternoon. The Halloween game I'm working on is mostly an excuse to shave a bunch of yaks. In this case my vision for cavu.games is that it has a "forge" that makes the difficulty of building a game near zero. What does that look like? 🧵

Second the code pipeline: Browser based, Metro code editor + custom LLM integration with cavu games specific system prompts. Write the Lua yourself or use one of our low cost models to generate the game logic. The coding agent + asset store should mean that you can create any idea you have.

Going to spend some more time with this tomorrow afternoon. The Halloween game I'm working on is mostly an excuse to shave a bunch of yaks. In this case my vision for cavu.games is that it has a "forge" that makes the difficulty of building a game near zero. What does that look like? 🧵

First level is almost ready to play-test for anyone interested. You're trick-or-treating with 2 people you follow on bluesky who have @rpg.actor sprites. I hope @iame.li and @tynanpurdy.com don't mind I'm using them for testing. There's still so much pixel art to make but the engine is working ok

Haiku Day #1 — 16/17 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Check out haiku-day.cavu.games a daily haiku game inspired by wordle. The first Haiku just launched. A new Haiku will be live every day at midnight (UTC)

Haiku Day #3 — 17/17 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 cavu.games/g/haiku-day Perfect score this time Time to make some small changes Will spend a little time

What have I been up-to the last few days? cavu.games is now live. This has been a pipe dream since the beginning of the summer and it's mostly working. For now it's 2 games that I'd previously published elsewhere, but there will be some new exclusive games later this month. 🧵 on why this is cool

The cool thing about the play.cavu.games endpoint is that it also acts as a proxy to a dev server running on your computer via iroh. That means that you can host a game locally and invite people to play with a play.cavu.games url. This supports hot reloading of game bundles to the client

What have I been up-to the last few days? cavu.games is now live. This has been a pipe dream since the beginning of the summer and it's mostly working. For now it's 2 games that I'd previously published elsewhere, but there will be some new exclusive games later this month. 🧵 on why this is cool

Cavu Games is the first working version of my "intent to launch" design that I originally pitched to @trezy.codes leaflet.pub/p/did:plc:dp... What this means is that you sign-in once on cavu.games and then games listed there on any domain can use your login to write to your PDS.

Haiku Day #1 — 16/17 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Check out haiku-day.cavu.games a daily haiku game inspired by wordle. The first Haiku just launched. A new Haiku will be live every day at midnight (UTC)

Let's talk about AI and writing: For NaNoWriMo this year I'm taking on a very very ambitious project, the first of 9 novels (3 trilogies), short story collections, RPG systems, early reader books, and more. All of these are set in a richly detailed world I'm calling 8th Sea.

This would be a full-month full-time project with lots of revision if I did it by hand. Instead I can fire up my trusty LLM while I'm doing dishes and talk through ideas. I can have the full outline and world bible done before November starts

Let's talk about AI and writing: For NaNoWriMo this year I'm taking on a very very ambitious project, the first of 9 novels (3 trilogies), short story collections, RPG systems, early reader books, and more. All of these are set in a richly detailed world I'm calling 8th Sea.