Essays

Long-form thinking on live-generated stories, authored worlds, transmedia and simulations that behave like places.

Vibe development vs vibe coding: building real systems with AI

Vibe coding on Lovable or Bolt gets you a working demo. Vibe development uses AI agents to architect infrastructure, SQL and backends that survive production.

29 Oct 2026

Story generators

From interactive film to generative universes: what world models change

How world models could move storytelling from fixed clips and branches to responsive scenes—and what latency, coherence, player agency and authorship still demand.

21 Oct 2026

Story generators

A field guide to Story Generators: why interactive stories start with text

Story Generators turn an authored world into a live, responsive story. Text is the medium where that new form of interactive entertainment can be built and tested today.

20 Oct 2026

Transmedia & tools

Classical 2D mechanics: the feel layer under generated worlds

Jump arcs, movement, tile grids, collision, fixed timesteps and cameras: the hand-tuned rules that still decide how a generated world feels to move through, and how they anchor generated content.

17 Oct 2026

Story generators

Generative audio for story worlds: adaptive scores, sound effects and synthetic voices

From iMUSE to text-to-speech characters: how generated sound gives a story world its voice, when to generate live versus in advance, and the consent questions to settle first.

16 Oct 2026

World models & simulations

Designing 3D worlds for discovery: from landmarks to world models

What makes a simulated world worth exploring, and how procedural structure, AI agents and world models can make space invite curiosity rather than just provide scale.

15 Oct 2026

World models & simulations

Characters with memory: LLM agents in living simulations

How language-model agents add memory, goals and social behaviour to simulated worlds—and why an underlying model of what is true still matters.

15 Oct 2026

Story generators

Loops and formats: giving generated stories a shape

Core, meta and session loops, the difference between compulsion and meaning, and why a generated story needs structure to stay a story rather than drift into chat.

13 Oct 2026

World models & simulations

Simulations that think: from the Game of Life to AI agent societies

From cellular automata and agent-based models to LLM societies: how simulations produce behaviour no one authored in advance, and how to design worlds where it adds up to meaning.

11 Oct 2026

Transmedia & tools

Prototyping a walkable 3D world with Three.js and an LLM

Going from idea to a small explorable 3D space in an afternoon: one index.html, an import map, design notes, one change at a time, and hooks for AI narration and generated audio.

10 Oct 2026

Story generators

Choice and authorship in AI Story Generators: why 'say anything' can break a story

When a reader can type anything, what makes a choice matter? Agency versus the illusion of choice, why branching gets expensive, and the constraints that give generated stories weight.

9 Oct 2026

Transmedia & tools

Building a text story engine: rules own the truth, the model tells the story

The stack behind an AI-narrated story world: a deterministic world state, an LLM interpreter and narrator, structured output, memory and saves, and evals that keep the model honest.

8 Oct 2026