Game Arts

The shadows in white knitwear, reflections on coated shoulder armor, skin transitions on the hands, bright sleeve edges, and broken highlights in the hair arise from different material and compositing mechanisms. Explaining the complete character requires separating surface properties, directional responses, geometric outlines, and later overlays before assessing each difference from the reference. The previous … Read more

Revision note (2026-09-30): This article records work from 2026-07-06. Early proxy designs, sample measurements, and evidence about the original algorithm are distinguished below. Pending work retains its historical validation scope. Later progress is covered in heightmap reconstruction and POI, Stamp, vegetation, and rock layouts. AI-Assisted Game Dev · Asset Reverse-Engineering Series, Part 4 · Scene … Read more

Revision note (2026-09-30): This article records work from 2026-07-05. Early proxy designs, sample measurements, and evidence about the original algorithm are distinguished below. Pending work retains its historical validation scope. Later progress is covered in heightmap reconstruction and POI, Stamp, vegetation, and rock layouts. AI-Assisted Game Development · Asset Reverse-Engineering Series · Level Terrain Prologue: … Read more

In the previous article, *AI-Native Game Dev · Reverse-Engineering a Game Character Model into the Engine*, I pulled the assets of a third-person shooter’s characters and monsters — meshes, skeletons, materials — out of its package files and into the engine. That article was about whether the assets could be imported, and imported correctly. But … Read more

Revision note (2026-09-30): This article records work from 2026-06-30. Early proxy designs, sample measurements, and evidence about the original algorithm are distinguished below. Pending work retains its historical validation scope. Later progress is covered in heightmap reconstruction and POI, Stamp, vegetation, and rock layouts. This is the third stop in the “making games with AI” … Read more

In the previous article, AI-Native Game Dev in Practice · From Asset Reuse to Experience Reuse, I made one argument: during the gameplay-validation phase there is no need to wait for finished art — one can reuse existing assets and recompose them with AI, bringing the gameplay up first in order to validate it. That … Read more

In AI-Native Game Dev in Practice · The Full Gameplay System Map, I folded combat, enemies, and levels into a single through-line: experience goal → features + numbers (config-driven) → AI-assisted execution → validate and iterate. That piece kept hammering on one sentence — validate that it’s fun before you pour in assets. But back … Read more