★ homegrown software / please touch the exhibits ★
games, engines, companions & questionable little experiments
Things I made.
Things you can take home.
Quiet worlds, loud experiments, stories, and software with a life of its own. Browse the shelves below — the itch.io and source links are on each box.
ON THE WORKBENCHquiet building sandbox
A little plot of concrete and green, floating in the fog. Stack walls and stairs, plant trees and ferns, then walk inside the small world you made. No scores. No rush. Make something cozy.
Windows · 18 MB · Name your own price · Offline-friendly
native game engine
My C++20 game engine and workspace: Vulkan rendering, editor tools, shared runtime systems, multiplayer support, and game projects. Explore the engine room and follow what I am building.
Windows-first · C++20 · Vulkan
compact game + engine
A compact Windows game and engine built in C++20, with Vulkan rendering, streamed worlds, and embedded runtime assets. Explore its industrial campaign and the Ashfall Exclusion Zone.
Windows · Game + engine · Source & releases
GAMESa very suspicious visual novel
A self-aware visual novel full of endings, restarts, loops, and deliberate nonsense. If it seems to have ended, that might just be the point.
Windows / macOS / Linux · Name your own price
GAMEStalk your way through the gate
A stubborn knight stands between you and the secret code. Use conversation, persuasion, and a little mischief to convince him to let you pass.
AI dialogue · Requires your own OpenAI API key
GAMESseven days with Aurora
Guide Aurora through emotions, ethics, relationships, and decisions. Your choices shape her personality and where her story goes.
Interactive fiction · Visual novel
GAMESone very small feline life
Start as a kitten, find food, meet humans and other cats, and choose how to explore the world. Your decisions shape a cat’s health, happiness, and life.
Windows · Batch game · Cats, obviously
GAMESa friend in the command line
A lightweight, text-based companion with secret minigames and a very retro soul. Unzip it, open ELAI.bat, and get to know the little program living in your terminal.
Windows · Batch script · Offline
a terminal adventure in C
An evolving native text adventure with a command parser, character creation, inventory, equipment, forging, and mod support. Take a look behind the terminal.
C · Text adventure · Development project
audio-language experiment
An experimental AI audio linguistic protocol, available as a downloadable Windows tool on itch.io.
Windows · Name your own price
an unusual filing cabinet
An interactive AI SCP database for Windows. Open the project’s itch page for downloads, or look through its source repository.
Windows · Interactive AI database
AIa desk for your next story
A writing workspace with AI story, plot, and character generators, brainstorming conversations, and a lore book for your worlds. Save and export your ideas as text.
Windows · Creative writing · Worldbuilding
give a sprite a little brain
Write small Python brain scripts to control a sprite pet. Try movement, pathing, and state-machine examples, then reload the brain while the sandbox is running.
Python · pygame · Scriptable pets
AIMai’s experimental workspace
Mai’s source workspace, with a Python backend, brain tools, training code, and a standalone Electron frontend. A place to explore the ongoing companion experiments.
Python + Electron · Experimental source project
a little company on your desktop
An animated desktop companion with an Electron app and a launcher that connects to LM Studio. Its animation library scans local motion folders.
Windows · Electron · LM Studio
a local coding agent + editor
A desktop coding workspace for OpenAI-compatible local model servers. Includes persistent chats, workspace file tools, a manual editor, and approval-gated terminal commands.
Local models · Coding workspace
build illustrated text adventures
An editor and game engines for illustrated, text-based RPGs. Work on stories, designs, and assets, with player/export paths for HTML, Python, and C++.
Story tools · HTML / Python / C++
turn HTML into desktop apps
A Windows PowerShell GUI for packaging an HTML app folder as an Electron application or installer. Save build profiles and include the resources your app needs.
Windows · PowerShell · Electron
little pieces of a sprite sheet
A sprite-sheet mapper with a browser interface and command-line tools. Slice by grid or components, export JSON, and create preview overlays.
Sprite tools · Browser UI + CLI
a home for the things to remember
A local-first personal information workspace for tasks, projects, calendar events, notes, goals, people, and file references. Includes portable JSON backup and restore.
Personal organization · Local-first
put the picture with the sound
A small Python utility for combining a video clip with an audio track. Browse the source on GitHub.
Python · Media utility
your folders, one scroll at a time
Browse a local folder of GIFs, videos, animated WebPs, and images in a vertical shorts-style feed. Includes keyboard controls and locally saved favorites.
Windows · Local media · Keyboard controls
a fullscreen viewing shell
A Windows launcher that opens its configured streaming site in an Edge app window, hosted inside a borderless fullscreen shell. Visit the repository for setup and controls.
Windows · Edge launcher
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