What it takes to go from 'feature-complete' to actually shippable. The Dark Factory swarm's approach to the final mile: audio punch, screen feel, game juice, and everything that turns a working game into a great one.
We caught up with Dr. G! -- PhD in Ludology and Steam business advisor to the Dark Factory -- for a wide-ranging conversation about genre strategy, autonomous game development, and a spontaneous new game idea.
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…
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.