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This is a time-lapse of me very quickly demonstrating the entire, end-to-end process, by putting together an 18-card expansion deck in just under 3 hours.

2024 EDIT: I built this game in 2022, before cheap, low-effort, and morally questionable AI art generation tools became broadly available to all of humanity. I did it using python scripts and legitimate, public data-sets of verifiable provenance, and put a lot of additional effort into the output and layout of the cards - and I’ve made the output available for free. Please do not come at me with “AI is prima facie immoral” unless you’re willing to engage with this project on these terms.

2023 EDIT: GOOD THING THAT THE WHOLE AI ART INDUSTRY DIDN’T CHANGE OVERNIGHT AND BECOME DRAMATICALLY EASIER FOR NON-TECHNICAL USERS TO INTERFACE WITH EXACTLY FIFTEEN MINUTES AFTER I FINISHED THIS PROJECT, OR I’D HAVE FELT LIKE A REAL SCHMUCK

This is an early build of a game engine was working on in 2020, designed to produce a procgen roguelike world.

If you watch how badly the chess games go you can see that the distributed gameplay logic engine didn’t work so good. Distributed consistency is really hard you guys.

Honestly the procgen music engine wasn’t… terrible. As procgen music engines go it’s… on the verge of listenable. If this were playing while I were wandering around in a forest for a long period of time I wouldn’t be TOO MAD.

The goal was to create music that just ran forever in the background and never really drew attention to itself, which is kind of where it’s at.

I put a lot of effort into this “taking model-generated MIDI, using heuristic rules to sort it and apply structure to it, then running it through a javascript in-browser synth” project, but not a year later models like Suno could generate full pop songs so this was basically obsolete before it ever launched.

Honestly, watching it go and listening to it is kinda charming.

Here’s another, later concert from a slightly later build:

There’s a little special song at 13:50 that is one of the worst things the engine has ever composed.

Whenever I played this for anybody who was at all interested in music they were actively mad at me for doing this to music.

Bureaucracy is the worst. Learn about some of it.