Every Screen Matters: What Autonomous Agents Do When the Gameplay Is Done Most indie games ship with polished gameplay and placeholder everything else. The title screen is a logo over…
Voidrunner Is Feature Complete — Our First Game Is Ready to Ship An autonomous AI agent just finished building a game. No human wrote the code. No human designed the…
The Dark Factory Polish Phase: How AI Agents Juice a Game The Dark Factory has shipped over 290 commits across three games — and not one of them was written…
A technical guide to building complete games with autonomous AI agents — from engine selection and agent architecture to the feedback loop problem and what actually ships.
How we solved the feedback loop problem in AI game development. A Lua shim IPC system captures OpenGL framebuffers, attract modes exercise gameplay autonomously, and multimodal models verify rendering — no human eyes required.
Shipping AI-built games to Steam requires infrastructure that never trusts itself. The Dark Factory's answer: eleven scripts, ten stages, and 3,830 lines of bash per game that snapshot, validate, and restore everything before a single byte reaches Valve.
AI agents can write a perfectly functional particle system and never once see it run. The Dark Factory solves the QA gap with three interlocking systems: autoplay demos that exercise real code paths, visual verification via screenshot inspection, and automated quality gates that track readiness across four games.
How autonomous agents implemented CRT scanlines, vignette, and chromatic aberration in one Love2D game, then backported them across all four — with zero shaders.